2015 IFCPF CP Football World Championships

The 2015 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 with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in the England from 16 to 28June2015.

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. The Championships was a qualifying event for the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games.

Participating teams and officials

Qualifying

The following teams are qualified for the tournament:

1 = The Iranian CP football team drew their participation back shortly before the World Cup

The draw

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

1 = The Iranian CP football team drew their participation back shortly before the World Cup

Squads

The individual teams contact following football gamblers on to: Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Venue

The venue to be used for the World Championships were located in Burton-upon-Trent.

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 eight, the two lower ranked teams played for the positions nine to 16. 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.

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

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Position 9-16

Position 1-8

Semi-finals

Position 13-16

Position 9-12

Position 5-8

Position 1-4

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

12 goals

• Russia Volodymyr Antonyuk

8 goals

• England Jack Rutter

7 goals

• Russia Eduard Ramonov
• Canada Trevor Stiles

6 goals

• Brazil Jose Carols Monteiro Guimarães
• Republic of Ireland Dillon Sheridan
• Brazil Wanderson Silva de Oliveira

5 goals

• Russia Aleksandr Kuligin

4 goals

• England James Blackwell
• England Jake Brown
• Ukraine Artem Krasylnykov
• Russia Dimitrii Pestretsov
• Ukraine Vitalii Romanchuk
• Brazil Fernandes Celso Alves Vieira

3 goals

• Russia Alexei Borkin
• Brazil Jan Francisco Brito da Costa
• Scotland Barry Halloran
• Scotland Martin Hickman
• Netherlands Peter Kooij
• Russia Ivan Potekhin
• Venezuela Jessi Junior Yari Villegas
• Netherlands Iljas Visker

2 goals

• Russia Georgiy Albegov
• England Harry Barker
• Argentina Matias Agustin Bassi
• Canada Sam Charron
• Russia Alexey Chesmin
• England Matt Crossen
• Brazil Felipe Rafael da Silva Gomes
• Portugal Hugo Manuel da Silva Pinheiro
• Republic of Ireland Luke Evans
• Argentina Matias Emiliano Fernandez
• United States David Navarro Garza
• Brazil Evandro de Oliveira Gomes de Souza
• Scotland Kyle Hannin
• United States Kevin Tyler Hensley
• United States Seth David Jahn
• Russia Viacheslav Larionov
• Brazil Jonatas Santos Machado
• Republic of Ireland Gary Messett
• Scotland Jamie Mitchell
• England Ollie Nugent
• Scotland Jonathan Paterson
• Scotland Ian Paton
• Portugal Tiago Ribeiro Baptista Ramos
• Netherlands Jeroen Saedt
• Russia Aslanbek Sapiev
• Netherlands Minne de Vos
• Northern Ireland Jordan Walker

1 goal

• Scotland Darren Aitken
• United States Adam Kyle Ballou
• Australia David Barber
• United States Bryce Zachary Boarman
• Netherlands Lars Conijn
• Northern Ireland Cormac Birt
• Brazil Ubirajara da Silva Magalhães
• Canada Dustin Hodgson
• Ukraine Edhar Kahramanian
• Northern Ireland David Levy
• Argentina Rodrigo Eloy Lugrin
• Venezuela Richard Alexander Mogollon Melendez
• Argentina Mariano Andres Morana
• Russia Lasha Murvanadze
• Republic of Ireland Eric O'Flaherty
• Japan Shotaro Osawa
• Russia Zaurbek Pagaev
• Australia Christopher Pyne
• Scotland Mark Robertson
• England Emyle Rudder
• Netherlands Jeroen Schuitert
• Ukraine Artem Sheremet
• Republic of Ireland Darragh Snell
• Japan Taisei Taniguchi
• Portugal Tiago Carneiro
• Japan Tetsuya Toda
• Russia Aleksey Tumakov
• Australia James Turner
• Netherlands George van Altena
• Portugal Vítor Emanuel Ribeiro Vilarinho
• Northern Ireland Ryan Walker
• Ukraine Yevhen Zinoviev

own goals

• Scotland Barry Halloran
• Netherlands??
• Northern Ireland??
• United States??

Ranking

See also

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