# 2016 IFCPF World Championships Qualification Tournament

The 2016 IFCPF World Championships Qualification Tournament was a tournament 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 England from 29 July – 6 August 2016 .
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 2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships

## Participating teams and officials
### Qualifying

The following teams are qualified for the tournament:
| Means of qualification | Berths | Qualified |
| Host nation | 1 | Denmark |
| African Region | 0 | none |
| Americas Region | 2 | Canada Venezuela |
| Asian Region | 3 | Iran Japan Korea |
| European Region | 6 | Finland Germany Northern Ireland Portugal Scotland Spain |
| Oceania Region | 1 | Australia |
| Total | 13 | |

### The draw

During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. Here, the following groups:
| | Group A | Group B | Group C | Group D |
| Pot 1 | Scotland (9) | Portugal (11) | Iran (12) | Canada (10) |
| Pot 2 | Australia (14) | Venezuela (15) | Northern Ireland (13) | Japan (16) |
| Pot 3 | Spain (18) | Korea (18) | Germany (17) | Finland (21) |
| no Pot | | | | Denmark (18) |
| The teams of Austria (21), Mexico (21) and Singapore (21) did not take part in the tournament. |||||

### Squads

Group A
| Scotland | Australia | Spain |
| 01 Barry Halloran 02 Blair Glynn 03 Martin Hickman 04 Lewis McIntyre 05 Sean Stewart 06 Ian Paton 07 Mark Robertson 08 Jamie Mitchell 09 Kyle Hannin 10 Jonathan Paterson 11 Cameron Pollock 13 Chris Tucker 14 Blair McGregor 15 Kieran Martin | 01 Samuel Larkings GK) 02 Benjamin Roche (DF)/(MF) 03 Jack Williams (DF) 04 Nicolas Prescott (FW)/(MF) 05 Ryan Kinner (MF) 06 Chris Pyne (DF) 07 David Barber (DF) 09 Ben Atkins (MF) 10 Conor Marsh (DF) 12 Matthew Hearne (DF)/(MF) 13 Cosimo Cirillo (FW) 14 Zachary Jones (DF) 16 Alessandro La Verghetta (FW)/(MF) 21 Christian Tsangas (GK) | 01 Antonio Jesus Dominguez Galvan (GK) 02 Ruben Madrid Gomez (DF)/(MF) 03 Santiago Macia Rovira (MF) 04 Daniel Manjon Gomez (DF)/(MF) 05 Noe Adell Pla (DF)/(MF) 06 Pol Aguilar Diaz (DF)/(MF) 07 Sergio Nicolas Clemente Munoz (MF) 08 Aitor Arino Casoliba (FW)/(MF) 09 Jose Manuel Gomez Suarez (MF) 10 Eduardo De Laorden Barcelona (MF) 11 Daniel Zancajo Alejandre (FW)/(MF) 12 Jaume Almenar Avino (MF) 13 Francisco jose Martin Gutierrez (GK) 14 Felipe Maravall Calvo (DF)/(MF) |
Group B
| Portugal | Venezuela | Korea |
| 01 Rui Rocha (GK) 02 Ricardo Franca (DF)/(MF) 03 Hugo Pinheiro (MF) 04 Vasco Santos (DF) 05 Ruben Oliveira (DF) 06 Luis Miguel Leal Ferreira (DF) 07 Vitor Vilarinho (DF)/(MF) 08 Pedro Santos (DF)/(MF) 09 Rui Goncalves (DF)/(MF) 10 Tiago Ramos (FW) 11 Jesus Barbosa (FW) 12 Nuno Bogas (DF) 13 Lucas Pinheiro (MF) 14 Telmo Baptista Tab (GK) | 01 Alexandre Bello Marlon 02 Daniel Enrique Sanchez 03 Jose Luis Felipe Quintana 04 Asdrubal Eusebio De Jesus Oliveros Mora 05 Anderson Alberto Morantes Ramirez 06 Richard Alexandre Mogollon Melendez 07 Peter Antony Alvarado Gonzalez 08 Jessi Junior Yari Villegas 09 Angel Evelio Molina Gamacho 10 Frank Rene Pineda Teran 11 Saul Eliecer Torres Villegas 12 Gabirel Antonio Bravo Olivi 13 Gabriel Alfredo Medina 14 Cristian Sneider Moreno Perez | 01 Jungdeuk Park (GK) 02 Kinam Kim (DF) 03 Sangyul Kim (DF) 04 Gyujeong Sim (FW)/(MF) 05 Phillip Jung (FW) 06 Beomjun Choi (DF)/(MF) 07 Hunju Lee (DF) 08 Junchul Shin (DF)/(MF) 09 Chiyoon Heo (DF) 10 Junho Jang (DF) 11 Dongu Lee (FW) 12 Suam Park (DF) 13 Haecheol Park (FW) 14 Seunghwan Lee (FW) |
Group C
| Iran | Northern Ireland | Germany |
| 01 Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi (GK) 02 Hamid Fathinezhad Jouryabi (DF)/(MF) 04 Hassan Safari (DF) 05 Sadegh Hassani Baghi (MF) 06 Amir Amjadian (DF)/(MF) 07 Behnam Sohrabi (FW) 08 Hossein Tiz Bor (DF)/(MF) 09 Mehdi Jamali (FW) 10 Jasem Bakhshi (FW) 11 Ehsan Masoumzadeh (MF) 12 Naser Akbarpour Kalankalayeh (DF) 13 Lotfollah Jangjou (DF) 17 Mohammed Kharat (DF) 22 Babak Safarikourabbasloo (GK) | 01 Paul Cassidy (GK) 02 Christian Canning (DF) 03 Jordan Cush (DF) 04 Cormac Birt (MF) 05 James Holden (DF)/(MF) 06 Charlie Fogarty (MF) 07 David Leavy (MF) 08 Ryan Walker (FW) 09 Conor Lewsley (FW) 10 Jordan Walker (FW)/(MF) 11 Harry Cheeseman (FW) 13 Sean Kemp (DF)/(MF) 14 Josh Harwood (DF) | 01 Rene Heinen (GK) 02 Luca Podsendek (MF) 03 Robin Meyer (MF) 04 Fabian Oliesch (DF)/(MF) 05 Rene Schramm (DF) 06 Frederic Heinze (DF) 07 Gordon Litinski (DF)/(MF) 08 Marco Geisler (FW) 09 Phillipp Freudinger (DF)/(MF) 10 Jörn Lorenzen (FW)/(MF) 11 Pritpal Singh (DF)/(MF) 12 Lars Nehrenheim (GK) 13 Maik Puschmann (DF) 14 Conny Fritsch (DF) |
Group D
| Canada | Japan | Finland | Denmark |
| 01 Damien Wojtiw (GK) 02 Liam Stanley (MF) 03 Dan Benoit (DF) 04 Raji Kamoun (FW) 05 Samuel Charron (MF) 06 Jamie Ackinclose (MF) 07 Dustin Hodgson (DF) 08 Vito Proietti (FW) 09 Lucas Bruno (FW) 10 Duncan McDonald (MF) 11 Matt Brown (DF) 12 Nic Heffernan (DF) 13 Chris Fawcett (DF)/(MF) 14 Sam Denton (GK) | 01 Hideyuki Yanagi 02 Kodai Nakaoka 03 Shou Kuroda 04 Hiroto Takahashi 05 Taisei Taniguchi 06 Ryosuke Miura 07 Tomohisa Ohno 08 Shotaro Osawa 09 Tetsuya Toda 10 Temma Inoue 11 Tatsuhiro Ura 12 Kazuma Hanaki 14 Kuniaki Yoshioka | 01 Jaakko Sepalla (GK) 03 Wiljami Laurila (DF) 04 Simo Mykkanen (DF) 08 Mikael Jukarainen (DF) 09 Janne Helander (FW) 10 Johannes Siikonen (FW) 12 Otto Kaipainen (DF) 13 Tomi Petteri Heikkila (DF) 15 Samuel Taipale (FW) 16 Joni Berg (FW) 17 Juho Ovaska (GK) 20 Ville Kuronen (FW) | 01 Mads Tofte (GK) 02 Kristoffer Nielsen (DF)/(FW) 03 Bastian Wendel Carlsen (FW)/(MF) 05 Per Mørch (DF) 06 Peter Hansen (DF) 07 Glenn Sambleben (DF) 08 Claus Pape (FW) 09 Victor Sørensen (FW) 10 Noa Bak-Pedersen(DF) 11 Martin Wolf (DF)/(MF) 12 Oliver Larsen (MF) 16 Magnus Hytholm Strand(DF) 22 Rasmus Jørgensen (GK) 83 Emil Møller (MF) |

## Venues

The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in Vejen.
| Vejen | Vejen | Vejen |
| Stadium: Vejen Idrætscenter | | Vejen |
| Capacity: unknown | | Vejen |

## Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 13 teams divided among three groups of three and one group 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 plays for the positions nine to thirteen. 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. In any every match a maximum of 10 goals scored were counted. This is indicated with an asterisk (*).

### Group A

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Scotland | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | +7 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Australia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Spain | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | −7 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 13 |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Portugal | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 4 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Venezuela | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | +1 | 4 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Korea | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 13 |
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### Group C

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Iran | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 3 | +12 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Northern Ireland | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 3 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Germany | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 13 | −12 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 13 |
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### Group D

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Canada | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 0 | +27 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 2 | Japan | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 6 | Team play for the position 1 - 8 |
| 3 | Denmark | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 13 | −10 | 3 | Team play for the position 9 - 13 |
| 4 | Finland | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 16 | −14 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 13 |
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## Knockout stage
### Quarter-finals

Position 1-8

### Semi-finals

Position 5-8
Position 1-4

## Finals
### Group stage 9-13

position 9-13
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Spain | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 10 | position 9 |
| 2 | Germany | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 8 | +6 | 8 | position 10 |
| 3 | Denmark | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 9 | −3 | 6 | position 11 |
| 4 | Korea | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | −5 | 2 | position 12 |
| 5 | Finland | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 1 | position 13 |
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The match from the group stage Finland against Denmark (1–2) was included in the table.

### Finals 1-8

Position 7-8
Position 5-6
Position 3-4
Final

## Statistics
### Goalscorers
#### 15 goals

* Samuel Charron

#### 12 goals

* Mehdi Jamali

#### 8 goals

* Liam Stanley

#### 7 goals

* Conny Fritsch
* Sean Stewart

#### 6 goals

* Conor Lewsley

#### 5 goals

* Aitor Arino Casoliba
* Matt Brown

#### 4 goals

* Jasem Bakhshi
* David Leavy
* Ehsan Masoumzadeh
* Sergio Nicolas Clemente Munoz
* Hossein Tiz Bor

#### 3 goals

* Amir Amjadian
* Phillipp Freudinger
* Janne Helander
* Vitor Vilarinho
* Jessi Junior Yari Villegas

#### 2 goals

* Jamie Ackinclose
* Lucas Bruno
* Beomjun Choi
* Marco Geisler
* Kyle Hannin
* Peter Hansen
* Sadegh Hassani Baghi
* Ryan Kinner
* Blair McGregor
* Robin Meyer
* Jonathan Paterson
* Ian Paton
* Pedro Santos
* Taisei Taniguchi
* Tetsuya Toda
* Tatsuhiro Ura
* Martin Wolf

#### 1 goal

* Noe Adell Pla
* Ben Atkins
* Cormac Birt
* Harry Cheeseman
* Eduardo De Laorden Barcelona
* Nic Heffernan
* Temma Inoue
* Mikael Jukarainen
* Raji Kamoun
* Ville Kuronen
* Oliver Larsen
* Wiljami Laurila
* Luis Miguel Leal Ferreira
* Kieran Martin
* Emil Møller
* Anderson Alberto Morantes Ramirez
* Haecheol Park
* Hugo Pinheiro
* Vito Proietti
* Jose Luis Felipe Quintana
* Tiago Ramos
* Benjamin Roche
* Seunghwan Lee
* Johannes Siikonen
* Jordan Walker

#### own goals

* Noe Adell Pla
* Phillipp Freudinger
* Lotfollah Jangjou
* Sangyul Kim
* Simo Mykkanen

### Ranking

| Rank | Qualified 2017 WC | Team |
| 1. | Q | Iran |
| 2. | | Scotland |
| 3. | Q | Venezuela |
| 4. | Q | Portugal |
| 5. | Q | Northern Ireland |
| 6. | Q | Australia |
| 7. | Q | Canada |
| 8. | Q | Japan |
| 9. | Q | Spain |
| 10. | | Germany |
| 11. | | Denmark |
| 12. | | Korea |
| 13. | | Finland |