# 2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships

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

## 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 | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Ireland | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 0 | +21 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 20 | 1 | +19 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Denmark | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 21 | −19 | 3 | 2 best 3 placed to qualify for the quarter final |
| 4 | Finland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 22 | −21 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Russia | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | +9 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Scotland | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Northern Ireland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | −3 | 3 | 2 best 3 placed to qualify for the quarter final |
| 4 | Germany | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | −12 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 16 |

### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Ukraine | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 4 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | England | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | +5 | 4 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Portugal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 | −10 | 0 | 2 best 3 placed to qualify for the quarter final |
Table of third-placed teams from each group To compare the third-placed teams, only the games counted against the first-placed and second placed team, because in group C were only three teams. In this table, the two best teams rose to the quarter-finals, the third-placed nation must play the games at the 9th to 11th place.
Thus was laid on 25 July that the teams from Northern Ireland and Portugal were promoted to the quarter-finals, the team from Finland had to play for the 9th to 11th place.
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Northern Ireland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Portugal | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 11 | −10 | 0 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Finland | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | −24 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 12 |

## Knockout stage
### Semi-finals

Position 5-8
Position 1-4

## Finals

Position 9-11
Position 7-8
Position 5-6
    1 = Match was not played due to bad weather conditions
Position 3-4
Final

## Statistics
### Goalscorers
#### 8 goals

* Iljas Visker

#### 7 goals

* Peter Kooij

#### 5 goals

* Tomiwa Badun
* Michael Barker
* Eduard Ramonov
* Dillon Sheridan

#### 4 goals

* Lars Conijn
* Luke Evans
* Barry Halloran
* Aleksandr Kuligin
* Gary Messett
* Jack Rutter
* Anton Saedt

#### 3 goals

* Alexey Chesmin
* Oleksandr Devlysh
* Conny Fritsch
* Martin Hickman
* Mitch Lebon
* Stephan Lokhoff
* Laurie McGinley
* Emil Møller
* Lasha Murvanadze
* Jonathan Paterson
* Vitalii Romanchuk
* Victor Sørensen
* Aaron Tier
* Vítor Vilarinho
* Ryan Walker
* Kevin Wermeester

#### 2 goals

* Volodymyr Antonyuk
* Darragh Byrne
* David Levy
* George Fletcher
* Philipp Freudinger
* Peter Hansen
* Podge Leacy
* Dmytro Molodtsov
* Eric O'Flaherty
* Tiago Ramos
* Hendrik Rodenburg

#### 1 goal

* James Blackwell
* Stefan Boersma
* Jake Brown
* Thomas Brown
* Christian Canning
* Tiago Carneiro
* Peter Cotter
* Daan Dikken
* Myron Gebbink
* Blair Glynn
* Frederic Heinze
* Janne Helander
* Dmytro Hetman
* Mikael Jukarainen
* Viacheslav Larionov
* Joseph Markey
* Joey Mense
* Jamie Mitchell
* Ryan Nolan
* Oliver Nugent
* Dmitrii Pestritsov
* Denys Ponomarov
* Mark Robertson
* Rui Rocha
* Andreas Simonsen
* Glenn Sambleben
* Vitaliy Trushev
* Jordan Walker
* Yevhen Zinoviev

#### own goals

* David Levy
* Ryan Walker

### Ranking

| Rank | Team |
| | Ukraine |
| | Netherlands |
| | Russia |
| 4. | Ireland |
| 5. | England |
| 5. | Scotland |
| 7. | Portugal |
| 8. | Northern Ireland |
| 9. | Germany |
| 10. | Denmark |
| 11. | Finland |