Football World Championship Under 19 at the 2015 CPISRA World Games


The Football World Championship Under 19 at the 2015 CPISRA World Games was the world championship for men's national 7-a-side association football under 19 teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in the England from 10 to 16 August 2015. Football CP Football 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.

Participating teams and officials

Qualifying

The draw

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

Squads

Group A
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Venues

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

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 plays for the positions 17 to 32. 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.

Group A

Group B

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Position 5-7
Position 1-4
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Finals

Position 5-7
Position 3-4
'''Final'''

Statistics

Goalscorers

; 7 goals
; 6 goals
  • Weslley De Souza Mendes
; 5 goals
  • Soslan Gazdanov
  • Sergei Materukhin
  • Oliver Nugent
  • Igor Romero Da Rocha
; 4 goals
  • Alesson De Oliveira Silva
  • Kyle Hannin
  • Matthew Hearne
; 3 goals
  • Job Draaijers
  • Harm Pannerman
  • Reece Macmillan
  • Krist Stoelwinder
; 2 goals
  • Gerard Bambacht
  • Reiss Blackwell
  • Alexei Borkin
  • Malik De La Cruz Victoria
  • Temma Inoue
  • Jamie Mitchell
  • Bruno Pratis Da Silva
  • Bruno Rodrigues Da Silva
  • Aslan Tibilov
  • Tatsuhiro Ura
; 1 goal
  • Darren Aitken
  • Gordon Allan
  • Joel Athey
  • Joao Victor Batista Cortes
  • Danila Belov
  • Declan Docherty
  • Harrison Dowdell
  • Ryan Kinner
  • Hayden Kroll
  • Martijn Langras
  • Alexandr Lipin
  • Lewis McIntyre
  • Robert Miller
  • Ian Paton
; own goal
  • Jeroen Duin

    Ranking