2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships

2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Netherlands Netherlands
Dates	25 July – 5 August 2018
Teams	10
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Russia Russia
Runners-up	Ukraine Ukraine
Third place	Republic of Ireland Ireland
Fourth place	Netherlands Netherlands
Tournament statistics
Matches played	30
Goals scored	146 (4.87 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Ukraine Vitalii Romanchuk (7); Republic of Ireland Dillon Sheridan (7); England Harry Baker (7)
	← 2014 Maia 2023 →

The 2018 IFCPF CP Football World Championships was the European championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes compete with a physical disability. The Championship took place in the Netherlands from 25 July to 5 August 2018.

Football 7-a-side was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications were that there were seven players, no offside, a smaller playing field, and permission for one-handed throw-ins. Matches consisted of two thirty-minute halves, with a fifteen-minute half-time break. The Championships was a qualifying event for the 2019 IFCPF CP Football World Championships.

Participating teams and officials

Teams

Continental	Berths	Team
Host nation	1	Netherlands Netherlands
Europe	9	Denmark Denmark England England Finland Finland Germany Germany Republic of Ireland Ireland Northern Ireland Northern Ireland Portugal ~~Portugal~~ Russia Russia Scotland ~~Scotland~~ Spain Spain Ukraine Ukraine
Total	10

The draw

During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings.^[1] Here, the following groups:

	Group A	Group B
Pot 1	Netherlands Netherlands (2.)	Ukraine Ukraine (1.)
Pot 2	Republic of Ireland Ireland (4.)	England England (3.)
Pot 3	Northern Ireland Northern Ireland (7.)	Russia Russia (5.)
Pot 4	Finland Finland (10.)	Denmark Denmark (9.)
Pot 5	Germany Germany (11.)	Spain Spain (12.)
The teams outside Europe were not included. Scotland Scotland (8.) and Portugal Portugal (6.) did not participate this time.

Squads

Group A

Netherlands Netherlands	Republic of Ireland Ireland	Northern Ireland Northern Ireland	Denmark Denmark	Germany Germany
1 Stefan Boersma 2 Roy Flier 3 Jeroen Schuitert 4 Harm Panneman 5 Martijn Loeffen 6 Gerard Bambacht 7 Jeroen Saedt 8 Tom van Reusel 10 Daan Dikken 11 Rik Rodenburg 14 Jochem Kintz 15 Joey Mense 21 Minne de Vos 23 George van Altena	1 Mark Barry 2 Joseph Markey 3 Darragh Byrne 4 Luke Evans 5 Aaron Tier 6 Oisin Merritt 7 Gary Messett 8 James Naughton 9 Ryan Nolan 10 Dillon Sheridan 11 Peter Cotter 12 Sam Carroll 13 Darragh Snell 14 Darragh Ruane	2 Charlie Fogarty 4 Jordan Walker 5 Lewis Hutin 6 Timmy McClean 7 Matthew Gildea 8 Sean Coyle 9 Ryan Walker 10 Charley Emerson 11 Ryan Neill 12 Christian Canning 14 Shea Tighe 15 Paul Cassidy	1 Mads Christian Fomsgaard 2 Anders Christiansen 3 Erik Dreier Olsen 4 Oliver Larsen 5 Oliver Palmus 6 William Kalum 7 Glenn Sambleben 8 Christian S. Moller Kjeldsen 9 Kristoffer Nielsen 10 Emil Moller 11 Martin Wolf 13 Mads Bendtsen 14 Magnus Hytholm Strand 15 Mads Tofte	David Bruns Christian Eidenhardt Luca Pascal Podensek Frederic Heinze Gordon Litinski Jorn Henrik Lorenzen Jonas Malkmus Robin Meyer Lars Nehrenheim Pascal Odrich Daniel Sperl Mario Wawrik Marco Geisler Julius Kopf

Group B

Ukraine Ukraine	England England	Russia Russia	Finland Finland	Spain Spain
1 Kostyantyn Symashko 2 Vitaliy Trushev 3 Hlib Husiev 4 Taras Dutko 5 Oleh Len 6 Edhar Kahramanian 7 Vitalii Romanchuk 8 Artem Sheremet 9 Dmytro Molodtsov 10 Ivan Donenko 11 Serhii Bedenok 12 Bohdan Kulynych 13 Artem Krasylnykov 14 Ivan Shkvarlo	1 Giles Moore 2 Liam Irons 3 Harry Baker 4 James Blackwell 5 Martin Sinclair 6 Matt Crossen 7 Michael Barker 8 Dale Smith 9 George Fletcher 10 Jordan Twiss 11 Oliver Nugent 12 Jack Fox 13 Ryan Kay 14 Lewis Tribe	1 Vladislav Raretckii 2 Leonid Ilyichov 3 Aslan Tibilov 4 Andrey Shimanov 5 Viacheslav Larionov 6 Sergei Materukhin 7 Soslan Gazdanov 8 Dmirti Minenko 9 Marat Eloev 10 Alexei Borkin 11 Roman Pesotskiy 12 Guram Chkareuli 13 Danila Belov 14 Georgiy Albegov	1 Jaakko Seppala 3 Jussi Laurila 4 Simo Mykkänen 5 Bulcsu Szekely 7 Jussi Tuominen 8 Mikael Jukarainen 9 Janne Helander 10 Johannes Siikonen 11 Kim Karlsson 12 Otto Kaipainen 15 Samuel Taipale 18 Antti Hovi 20 Ville Kuronen	1 Antonio Jesus Dominguez 2 Pol Aguilar 3 Noé Adell 4 Santiago Maciá 5 Isaías Pacheco 6 Jaume Almenar 7 Mario Fernández 8 Sergio Nicolas Clemente 9 Jose Manuel Bueno 10 Eduardo Jose de Laorden 11 Dego Barreto 12 Daniel Zancajo 13 Francisco José Martín 14 Carlos Rodriguez

Venues

The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in Zeist.

Zeist KNVB Campus		2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships is located in Netherlands Zeist Zeist
Stadium: unknown
Capacity: unknown

Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 10 teams divided among two groups of five, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage for the position one to four. The next two teams played for the position five to eight. The last teams played for the position nine to ten. Teams were awarded three points for a win and one for a draw. When comparing teams in a group over-all result came before head-to-head.

Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria: Number of points Goal difference Number of goals scored Number of points obtained in matches between tied teams Goal difference in matches between tied teams Number of goals scored in matches between tied teams Drawing of lots

In the knockout stage there were three rounds (quarter-finals, semi-finals, and the final). The winners plays for the higher positions, the losers for the lower positions. For any match in the knockout stage, a draw after 60 minutes of regulation time was followed by two 10 minute periods of extra time to determine a winner. If the teams were still tied, a penalty shoot-out was held to determine a winner.

Classification
Athletes with a physical disability competed. The athlete's disability was caused by a non-progressive brain damage that affects motor control, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or stroke. Athletes must be ambulant.

Players were classified by level of disability.

C5: Athletes with difficulties when walking and running, but not in standing or when kicking the ball.
C6: Athletes with control and co-ordination problems of their upper limbs, especially when running.
C7: Athletes with hemiplegia.
C8: Athletes with minimal disability; must meet eligibility criteria and have an impairment that has impact on the sport of football.

Teams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than two players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.

Group stage

The first round, or group stage, have seen the sixteen teams divided into four groups of four teams.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualified for
1	Republic of Ireland Ireland	4	4	0	18	1	+17	12	Team play for the position 1 - 4
2	Netherlands Netherlands	4	3	1	18	3	+15	9	Team play for the position 1 - 4
3	Germany Germany	4	2	2	9	10	−1	6	Team play for the position 5 - 8
4	Northern Ireland Northern Ireland	4	1	3	2	13	−11	3	Team play for the position 5 - 8
5	Denmark Denmark	4	0	4	0	20	−20	0	Team play for the position 9 - 10

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria

25 July 2018