2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships


The 2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships was the world championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes competed with a physical disability. The Championship took place in the Argentina from 4 to 24 September 2017.
Football CP Football was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications 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

Qualifying

The following teams were qualified for the tournament:

The draw

During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. Here, the following groups:
Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D
Pot 1

Squads

Group A
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Venues

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

Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 16 teams divided among four groups of four, 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 sixteen. the two lower ranked teams played for the positions 17 to 32. The 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:
  1. Number of points
  2. Goal difference
  3. Number of goals scored
  4. Number of points obtained in matches between tied teams
  5. Goal difference in matches between tied teams
  6. Number of goals scored in matches between tied teams
  7. Drawing of lots
In the knockout stage there were three rounds. 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.

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Position 9-16
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Position 1-8
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Semi-finals

Position 13-16
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Position 9-12
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Position 5-8
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Position 1-4
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Finals

Position 15-16
Position 13-14
Position 11-12
Position 9-10
Position 7-8
Position 5-6
Position 3-4
'''Final'''

Statistics

Goalscorers

;10 goals
  • Dillon Sheridan
;8 goals
  • Dmitrii Pestretsov
  • Hossein Tiz Bor
;6 goals
  • Samuel Charron
  • David Porcher
;5 goals
  • Volodymyr Antoniuk
  • Adam Ballou
  • Kevin Damian Bonomi
  • Cameron DeLillo
  • George Fletcher
  • Mariano Morana
;4 goals
  • James Victor Ackinclose
  • Aleksei Borkin
  • Mehdi Jamali
  • Viacheslav Larionov
  • Ubirajara Magalhães
  • Gary Messett
  • Vitaliy Romanchuk
;3 goals
;2 goals
  • Ben Atkins
  • Evandro Oliveira Gomes De Oliveira
  • Mariano Cortes
  • Matthew Anthony Crossen
  • Marat Eloev
  • Kevin Hensley
  • Seth Jahn
  • Aleksandr Kuligin
  • Wesley Martins
  • Ehsan Masoumzadeh
  • Leonardo Giovani Moraes
  • Asbrubal Olivares Mora
  • Stanislav Podolskyi
  • Jose Quintana
  • Jack Rutter
  • Jeroen Schuitert
  • Artem Sheremet
  • Ivan Shkvarlo
  • Dale Smith
  • Liam Stanley
  • Lewis Martin Tribe
  • Tatsuhiro Ura
  • Yari Villegas
;1 goal
  • Jasem Bakhshi
  • David Barber
  • James Blackwell
  • Andrew Marten Bremer
  • Carlos Carrizo
  • Duncan Coronel
  • Jan da Costa
  • Malik Madiba de la Cruz Victoria
  • Amirreza Ezzatdoust Sehsari
  • Matiaz Fernadez
  • Maximiliano Fernandez
  • Claudio Figuera
  • David Garza
  • Jose Manuel Gomez Suarez
  • Edhar Kahramanian
  • Luís Miguel Leal Ferreira
  • David Leavy
  • Oleh Len
  • Rodrigo Lugrin
  • Adriano Costa Martins
  • Nicholas Mayhugh
  • Duncan McDonald
  • Dmitry Minenko
  • Dmytro Molodtsov
  • Zaurbek Pagaev
  • Mario Fernandez Pardo
  • Lucas Pinheiro
  • Nicholas Prescott
  • Rui Diogo Ribeiro Gonçalves
  • Ben Roche
  • Santiago Macia Rovira
  • Jeroen Saedt
  • Amirreza Ezzatdoust Sehsari
  • Aleksey Tumakov
  • Jordan Walker
;own goals
  • 2 x Ben Atkins
  • 2 x Tomohisa Ono