# 2018 IFCPF CP Football European Championships

The 2018 IFCPF CP Football World Championships was the European championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes compete with a physical disability. The Championship took place in the Netherlands from 25 July to 5 August 2018.
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 2019 IFCPF CP Football World Championships.

## Participating teams and officials
### Teams

| Continental | Berths | Team |
| Host nation | 1 | Netherlands |
| Europe | 9 | Denmark England Finland Germany Ireland Northern Ireland Portugal Russia Scotland Spain Ukraine |
| Total | 10 | |

### The draw

During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. Here, the following groups:
| | Group A | Group B |
| Pot 1 | Netherlands (2.) | Ukraine (1.) |
| Pot 2 | Ireland (4.) | England (3.) |
| Pot 3 | Northern Ireland (7.) | Russia (5.) |
| Pot 4 | Finland (10.) | Denmark (9.) |
| Pot 5 | Germany (11.) | Spain (12.) |
| The teams outside Europe were not included. Scotland (8.) and Portugal (6.) did not participate this time. |||

### Squads

Group A
| Netherlands | Ireland | Northern Ireland | Denmark | Germany |
| 01 Stefan Boersma 02 Roy Flier 03 Jeroen Schuitert 04 Harm Panneman 05 Martijn Loeffen 06 Gerard Bambacht 07 Jeroen Saedt 08 Tom van Reusel 10 Daan Dikken 11 Rik Rodenburg 14 Jochem Kintz 15 Joey Mense 21 Minne de Vos 23 George van Altena | 01 Mark Barry 02 Joseph Markey 03 Darragh Byrne 04 Luke Evans 05 Aaron Tier 06 Oisin Merritt 07 Gary Messett 08 James Naughton 09 Ryan Nolan 10 Dillon Sheridan 11 Peter Cotter 12 Sam Carroll 13 Darragh Snell 14 Darragh Ruane | 02 Charlie Fogarty 04 Jordan Walker 05 Lewis Hutin 06 Timmy McClean 07 Matthew Gildea 08 Sean Coyle 09 Ryan Walker 10 Charley Emerson 11 Ryan Neill 12 Christian Canning 14 Shea Tighe 15 Paul Cassidy | 01 Mads Christian Fomsgaard 02 Anders Christiansen 03 Erik Dreier Olsen 04 Oliver Larsen 05 Oliver Palmus 06 William Kalum 07 Glenn Sambleben 08 Christian S. Moller Kjeldsen 09 Kristoffer Nielsen 10 Emil Moller 11 Martin Wolf 13 Mads Bendtsen 14 Magnus Hytholm Strand 15 Mads Tofte | 00 David Bruns 00 Christian Eidenhardt 00 Luca Pascal Podensek 00 Frederic Heinze 00 Gordon Litinski 00 Jorn Henrik Lorenzen 00 Jonas Malkmus 00 Robin Meyer 00 Lars Nehrenheim 00 Pascal Odrich 00 Daniel Sperl 00 Mario Wawrik 00 Marco Geisler 00 Julius Kopf |
Group B
| Ukraine | England | Russia | Finland | Spain |
| 01 Kostyantyn Symashko 02 Vitaliy Trushev 03 Hlib Husiev 04 Taras Dutko 05 Oleh Len 06 Edhar Kahramanian 07 Vitalii Romanchuk 08 Artem Sheremet 09 Dmytro Molodtsov 10 Ivan Donenko 11 Serhii Bedenok 12 Bohdan Kulynych 13 Artem Krasylnykov 14 Ivan Shkvarlo | 01 Giles Moore 02 Liam Irons 03 Harry Baker 04 James Blackwell 05 Martin Sinclair 06 Matt Crossen 07 Michael Barker 08 Dale Smith 09 George Fletcher 10 Jordan Twiss 11 Oliver Nugent 12 Jack Fox 13 Ryan Kay 14 Lewis Tribe | 01 Vladislav Raretckii 02 Leonid Ilyichov 03 Aslan Tibilov 04 Andrey Shimanov 05 Viacheslav Larionov 06 Sergei Materukhin 07 Soslan Gazdanov 08 Dmirti Minenko 09 Marat Eloev 10 Alexei Borkin 11 Roman Pesotskiy 12 Guram Chkareuli 13 Danila Belov 14 Georgiy Albegov | 01 Jaakko Seppala 03 Jussi Laurila 04 Simo Mykkänen 05 Bulcsu Szekely 07 Jussi Tuominen 08 Mikael Jukarainen 09 Janne Helander 10 Johannes Siikonen 11 Kim Karlsson 12 Otto Kaipainen 15 Samuel Taipale 18 Antti Hovi 20 Ville Kuronen | 01 Antonio Jesus Dominguez 02 Pol Aguilar 03 Noé Adell 04 Santiago Maciá 05 Isaías Pacheco 06 Jaume Almenar 07 Mario Fernández 08 Sergio Nicolas Clemente 09 Jose Manuel Bueno 10 Eduardo Jose de Laorden 11 Dego Barreto 12 Daniel Zancajo 13 Francisco José Martín 14 Carlos Rodriguez |

## Venues

The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in Zeist.
| Zeist KNVB Campus | Zeist KNVB Campus | Zeist |
| Stadium: unknown | | Zeist |
| Capacity: unknown | | Zeist |

## Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 10 teams divided among two groups of five, 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 four. The next two teams played for the position five to eight. The last teams played for the position nine to ten. 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 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | +17 | 12 | Team play for the position 1 - 4 |
| 2 | Netherlands | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 3 | +15 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 4 |
| 3 | Germany | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | −1 | 6 | Team play for the position 5 - 8 |
| 4 | Northern Ireland | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 13 | −11 | 3 | Team play for the position 5 - 8 |
| 5 | Denmark | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 20 | −20 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 10 |

### Group B

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualified for |
| 1 | Russia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 1 | +10 | 12 | Team play for the position 1 - 4 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 18 | 1 | +17 | 9 | Team play for the position 1 - 4 |
| 3 | England | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 19 | 4 | +15 | 3 | Team play for the position 5 - 8 |
| 4 | Spain | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 22 | −18 | 3 | Team play for the position 5 - 8 |
| 5 | Finland | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 25 | −24 | 0 | Team play for the position 9 - 10 |

## Knockout stage
### Semi-finals

Position 5-8
Position 1-4

## Finals

Position 9-10
Position 7-8
Position 5-6
Position 3-4
Final

## Statistics
### Goalscorers
#### 7 goals

* Vitalii Romanchuk
* Dillon Sheridan
* Harry Baker

#### 6 goals

* Matt Crossen

#### 5 goals

* Alexei Borkin
* Ivan Donenko
* Jeroen Schuitert

#### 4 goals

* Liam Irons
* Santiago Maciá
* Gary Messett
* Dale Smith

#### 3 goals

* Christian Eidenhardt
* Marat Eloev
* Charley Emerson
* Soslan Gazdanov
* Artem Krasylnykov
* Ryan Nolan
* Rik Rodenburg
* Jeroen Saedt
* Ivan Shkvarlo
* Daniel Sperl
* Jordan Twiss

#### 2 goals

* Georgiy Albegov
* Anders Christiansen
* Leonid Ilyichov
* Jorn Henrik Lorenzen
* Oisin Merritt
* Pascal Odrich
* Erik Dreier Olsen
* Darragh Ruane
* Artem Sheremet
* Andrey Shimanov
* Magnus Hytholm Strand
* Aaron Tier
* Lewis Tribe
* Minne de Vos

#### 1 goal

* Jaume Almenar
* Gerard Bambacht
* Serhii Bedenok
* Daan Dikken
* Taras Dutko
* Luke Evans
* Mario Fernández
* George Fletcher
* Roy Flier
* Mikael Jukarainen
* William Kalum
* Viacheslav Larionov
* Oliver Larsen
* Oleh Len
* Martijn Loeffen
* Jonas Malkmus
* Robin Meyer
* Harm Panneman
* Roman Pesotskiy
* Glenn Sambleben
* Aslan Tibilov

#### own goals

* 2× Mikael Jukarainen
* Anders Christiansen
* Matt Crossen
* Daan Dikken
* Jorn Henrik Lorenzen
* Simo Mykkänen

### Ranking

| Rank | Team |
| | Russia |
| | Ukraine |
| | Ireland |
| 4. | Netherlands |
| 5. | England |
| 6. | Germany |
| 7. | Spain |
| 8. | Northern Ireland |
| 9. | Finland |
| 10. | Denmark |