2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships

2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships
Tournament details
Host country	Portugal
Dates	23 July – 2 August 2014
Teams	11
Venue(s)	2 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Ukraine (5th title)
Runners-up	Netherlands
Third place	Russia
Fourth place	Iran
Tournament statistics
Matches played	29
Goals scored	162 (5.59 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Iljas Visker (8)
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The 2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships was the European championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. CPISRA stands for Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in Portugal from 23 July to 2 August 2014.^[1]

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 2015 IFCPF CP Football World Championships.

Participating teams and officials

Teams

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1	Portugal
European Region	10	Denmark England Finland Germany Ireland Netherlands Northern Ireland Russia Scotland ~~Spain~~ Ukraine
Total	11

The draw

During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings.^[2] Here, the following groups:

	Group A	Group B	Group C
Pot 1	Netherlands (3.)	Russia (1.)	Ukraine (2.)
Pot 2	Ireland (4.)	Scotland (8.)	England (10.)
Pot 3	Finland (.)	Northern Ireland (15.)	Portugal (.)
Pot 4	Denmark (21.)	Germany (23.)
The teams outside Europe were not included. Spain (.) did not participate this time.

Squads

Group A

Netherlands	Ireland	Finland	Denmark
01 George Van Altena (GK) 02 Anton Saedt 03 Mitch Lebon 04 Myron Gebbink 05 Teddy Witjes 06 Peter Kooij 07 Minne De Vos 08 Lars Conijn 10 Stephan Lokhoff (c) 14 Daan Dikken 15 Joey Mense 17 Hendrik Rodenburg 23 Stefan Boersma (GK)	01 Simon L’ Estrange (GK) 02 Darragh Byrne 03 Joseph Markey 04 Luke Evans 05 Podge (Paraic) Leacy 06 Dillon Sheridan 07 Gary Messett (c) 08 Ryan Nolan 09 Tomiwa Badun 10 Eric O'Flaherty 11 Peter Cotter 12 Aaron Tier 13 Carl Mc Kee 14 Brian Mc Gillivary (GK)	01 Jaakko Seppälä (GK) 03 Jussi Wiljami Laurila 07 Jussi Tuominen 08 Mikael Jukarainen 09 Janne Helander 10 Johannes C Siikonen (c) 13 Tomi Petteri Heikkilä 12 Otto Kaipainen 14 Pyry Nopsanen 15 Samuel Taipale 16 Joni Berg 20 Ville Kuronen	01 Mads Tofte (GK) 02 Mikkel Munkholm 03 Rasmus Jørgensen 05 Per Mørch 06 Peter Hansen (c) 07 Glenn Sambleben 08 Victor Sørensen 09 Claus Pape 10 Noa Bak-Pedersen 11/18 Aleksander Pedersen (GK)/(MF) 16 Andreas Simonsen 83 Emil Møller
Coach: Marcel Geestman	Coach: Gerard Glynn	Coach: Samuel Siikonen	Coach: Henrik Voerby

Group B

Russia	Scotland	Northern Ireland	Germany
03 Aslanbek Sapiev 06 Aleksey Tumakov 07 Alexey Chesmin 08 Ivan Potekhin 09 Eduard Ramonov 10 Dmitrii Pestritsov 11 Dmitrii Kukovkin 12 Guram Chkareuli 13 Lasha Murvanadze 14 Georgiy Albegov 15 Viacheslav Larionov 16 Vladislav Raretskiy 17 Zaurbek Pagaev 18 Aleksandr Kuligin	01 Craig Connell (GK) 02 Blair Glynn 03 Martin Hickman 04 Scott Troup (GK) 05 Lewis McIntyre 06 Declan Docherty 07 Mark Robertson 08 Jamie Mitchell 09 Laurie McGinley 10 Jonathan Paterson (c) 11 Thomas Brown 12 Scott Martin 13 Barry Halloran 14 Duncan Macpherson	01 Gareth Miller (GK) 02 Christian Canning (c) 03 Jordan Cush 04/17 Paul Cassidy (MF)/(GK) 05 Cormac Birt 06 William Hamilton 07 Stephen Halpin 08 David Levy 09 Ryan Walker 10 Jordan Walker 11 James Holden	02 Jan Jeschke 03 Christian Jonas Becht 04 Fabian Ollesch 05 Kevin Wermeester (c) 06 Frederic Heinze 07 Gordon Litinski 08 Sener Oguz 09 Philipp Freudinger 10 Benjamin Weiss 11 Tim Lescigewsky 12 Renè Heinen (GK) 13 Maik Puschmann 14 Conny Fritsch 15 William Pushpinder
Coach: Avtandil Baramidze	Coach: Andrew Smith	Coach: Mal Donaghy	Coach: Thomas Pfannkuch

Group C

Ukraine	England	Portugal
01 Kostyantyn Symashko 02 Vitaliy Trushev 03 Yevhen Zinoviev 04 Taras Dutko (c) 05 Anatolii Shevchyk 06 Edhar Kahramanian 07 Ivan Shkvarlo 08 Denys Ponomarov 09 Dmytro Molodtsov 10 Oleksandr Devlysh 11 Volodymyr Antonyuk 12 Bohdan Kulynych (GK) 13 Vitalii Romanchuk 14 Dmytro Hetman	01 Giles Moore (GK) 02 Harry Baker 03 Karl Townshend 04 Richard Fox 05 Jack Rutter (c) 06 Martin Sinclair 07 Michael Barker 08 James Blackwell 09 George Fletcher 11 Oliver Nugent 12 Jake Brown 13 Jordan Raynes (GK) 14 Alexander Mullin	01 Rui Rocha (GK) 02 Ricardo França 03 Ricardo Sotto Mayor 04 Vasco Santos 05 Ruben Oliveira 06 Luis Ferreira 07 Vítor Vilarinho (c) 08 Pedro Santos 09 Tiago Carneiro 10 Tiago Ramos 11 André Ferreira 12 Sérgio Barros 13 Lucas Pinheiro 14 Telmo Baptista (GK)
Coach: Ovcharenko Serhii	Coach: Keith Webb	Coach: Luis Ferreira

Venues

The venues to be used for the European Championships were located in Maia.

Maia		Maia
Estádio Municipal Dr. Costa Lima	Estádio Municipal Dr. José Vieira de Carvalho
Capacity: 2,000	Capacity: 16,000

Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 11 teams divided among two groups of four and one group of three, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group and the best two third-placed of the groups advanced to the knockout stage for the position one to eight. The other teams played for the positions nine to eleven. 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: 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	Ireland	3	3	0	21	0	+21	9	Team play for the position 1 - 8
2	Netherlands	3	2	1	20	1	+19	6	Team play for the position 1 - 8
3	Denmark	3	1	2	2	27	−25	3	2 best 3 placed to qualify for the quarter final
4	Finland	3	0	3	1	26	−25	0	Team play for the position 9 - 16

Source: Euro Football 7-a-side - Maia 2014
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria

24 July 2014