The second round of competition at the 2018 FIFA World Cup has ended. Now it has become known how many teams leave the group and fight for victory in the finals. Thus, out of 32 teams that applied to participate in international competitions, only 16 reached the 1/8.
This means that the decisive tournaments will be decisive in choosing the winner. The successful start of the matches ensured Russia, as the host, the right to continue the tournament.
How the best teams were selected
All teams were divided into 8 groups, each named according to the first letters of the English alphabet. 4 teams played under the corresponding letter. From the entire group, only those teams that scored the most points were admitted to the final competition.
If main criterion turned out to be equivalent - we looked at the number of goals scored or missed. When, according to calculations, the teams are in equal positions, preference is given to the country whose team hit the opponent’s goal more.
If these calculations gave the same result, they begin to calculate the behavior of the players on the field based on the number of warnings and deletions:
- a yellow card is equal to (-1) point;
- 2 yellow cards and 1 deletion - equal to (-3) points;
- a red card takes away 4 points from a team;
- yellow in combination with red takes away 5 points from the team.
If complex calculations of fair play and opponents’ mistakes on the field lead to the same result, FIFA has the right to award prizes using a banal lottery.
Therefore, even great and productive matches can lead to completely unexpected results. Before the start of the games in the super final, the situation is different groups the situation is as follows.
Group A
Participants:
- Russia- scored 6 points.
- Saudi Arabia- left with nothing - 0.
- Uruguay tried the hardest - 9 points.
- Egypt- scored 3 points in total.
The South Americans greatly surprised their opponents and scored the most bonus points, winning 3 matches at once.
She slightly disappointed her fans with a deafening loss, but still managed to take second place in the team.
Group B
Participants:
- Spain- took first place in the group, will continue to play with the Russians.
- Iran- couldn’t break through the South Americans’ defense and didn’t reach the final.
- Portugal- barely made it into the playoffs based on the number of points.
- Morocco- were eliminated with zero points.
Iran has kept the intrigue in this part of the teams for a long time. And only in the last match with the Portuguese national team did he miss his place in final tournaments championship.
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Group C
Participants:
- France- immediately found itself in first place. According to the results of the final matches in the group, she scored 7 points.
- Denmark- after a boring draw with the Europeans, we ended up in second place with 5 points.
- Australia- earned 1 point and was eliminated from the championship.
- Peru- earned only 3 points, but impressed with the exemplary behavior of the fans.
The last team was especially liked by all observers and commentators, although they did not have an effective game.
Group D
Participants:
- Croatia- reached the final with 9 points, will fight with the Danes.
- Nigeria- lost to the South Americans, flew home.
- Iceland- was unable to score the required number of points and also left Russia.
- Argentina- snatched victory from the representatives of the African continent with her teeth and achieved the right to participate in further tournaments.
The South Americans amazed everyone with their friendly squad that rebelled against the head coach. As a result, the legendary Messi became the leader of their game.
This provided her with a 1/8 exit. This is a sample of unexpected surprises; until the last moment no one knows how many teams will qualify from the group for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Group E
Participants:
- Brazil— immediately became leaders in their group, but decided not to waste money and added the victory over the Serbs to their points.
- Switzerland— was able to hold the last match with Costa Rica in a draw, maintaining the number of points with the correct game, will participate in the 1/8 finals from second place.
- Costa Rica- failed to beat the Europeans and are leaving the championship.
- Serbia- go home with a minimum number of points.
In this group, only the Costa Ricans were doomed to lose. Other teams up to last minute We hoped to reach the playoffs and continue to compete on the field.
Only recently it became known how many teams will qualify from the group for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Group F
Participants:
- Mexico- enters the home stretch from second place in the group.
- Germany- unexpectedly for everyone and for herself, she was eliminated from the competition after a deafening defeat in the match with the Asians. Even the fans in the stands could not hold back their tears, and head coach fully justified.
- South Korea - despite its success, it couldn’t make it to the playoffs on points.
- Sweden- crushed the Mexicans to smithereens and advanced to continue the competition from first place in the group.
Here it is worth paying attention to the defeat of the current world champions - for the Germans the situation turned out to be a stalemate.
Group G
Participants:
- England- defeated the Panamanians and reached the 1/8.
- Belgium- On June 28, they will play with the British for the right to advance to the 1/8 finals. Both teams scored the same number of points and will now fight for the right to participate in the final competition.
- Panama- leaves home from inhospitable Russia.
- Tunisia- unable to prove his worth with more eminent teams, he also goes home.
The final match will determine who leaves the group at the Kaliningrad stadium.
Group H
Participants:
- Japan-must score a couple more points to qualify for the playoffs.
- Poland- is definitely going home, despite final match with Japan.
- Senegal—fights at the next tournament with South Americans.
- Colombia- will try to gain the missing points with goals in the upcoming tournament dates.
It is still unknown how many teams will qualify from the group for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, as there is still a series of matches ahead.
The 2019-2020 season ended early, all remaining matches were cancelled. The decision on the final distribution of seats will be announced soon. Stay tuned for updates.
At the time the championship was stopped, all series of conference quarterfinal matches had been completed, but the semifinals had not started.
The 2019-2020 KHL Championship is the 12th season of the Kontinental Hockey League. The regular season began on September 1, 2019 and ended on February 27, 2020; the playoff series started on March 1 and was scheduled to end by April 30.
Participants
At the end of last season, the league did not exclude the club that showed the lowest sports and financial results in the ranking of KHL clubs. But in mid-May it became known that Slovan did not have enough money to participate in the new season, and thus 24 hockey clubs. These are 19 clubs from Russia and 5 foreign ones, representing Belarus, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Finland and China.
Nizhny Novgorod "Torpedo" returned to Western Conference, and “Sibir” in the “Vostok” moved to the Kharlamov division.
Calendar
During the 2019-2020 regular season, each team plays 62 matches, so a total of 744 games will be played. For each stage of the Eurotour, pauses of 6 days are planned - for Karjala Cup from November 5 to 10, on Channel One Cup from December 10 to 15 and on Swedish stage from 4 to 9 February 2020.
Week of Stars 2020 took place in Moscow from January 11 to 19. This is the WHL All-Star Game on January 11, the MHL Challenge Cup the next day, the Master Show on January 18, and on the final day the KHL All-Star Game took place on the ice of the VTB Arena.
Also this season, within KHL World Games, the allocated matches have passed. So, at the beginning of September, Kunlun Red Star played 6 home matches in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, on September 17 and 20 in Almaty, Barys played with Spartak and Traktor, on December 23 in Davos, Switzerland, Salavat Yulaev met and Ak Bars, and on January 10 and 11, the Finnish Jokerit played against Severstal in Tallinn.
Tournament table
During the regular season, all teams play two matches among themselves (46 matches), in addition to this, 10 matches with teams of their own Division and 6 matches with teams of the neighboring Division of their Conference.
KHL Playoffs 2020
The KHL playoffs will begin on March 1 and end no later than April 30, 2020. 16 teams qualify for the playoffs - these are the clubs that took places from 1 to 8 in tournament tables their conferences. Quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals are held within conferences, and the winners of the “West” and “East” meet in the championship finals, where they compete for the main trophy - the Gagarin Cup.
Coach resignations at the end of the season
Admiral: Gone Sergey Svetlov, came Leonid Tambiev.
Dynamo R: Out Girts Unkipans.
Coaching changes during the season
Tractor: Gone Peteris Skudra, came Vladimir Yurzinov Jr..
Sochi: Gone Sergey Zubov, came Alexander Andrievsky.
Lokomotiv: Left Craig MacTavish, came Michael Pelino.
Metallurg Mg: Left Josef Jandacz, came Ilya Vorobiev.
Coaching changes before the start of the season
SKA: Left Ilya Vorobiev, came Alexey Kudashov.
Lokomotiv: Left Dmitry Kvartalnov, came Craig MacTavish.
Dynamo Mn: Out Andrey Sidorenko, came Craig Woodcroft.
Vityaz: Left Valery Belov, came Mikhail Kravets.
Spartak: Out Alexey Zhamnov, came Oleg Znarok.
Tractor: Gone Alexey Tertyshny, came Peteris Skudra.
Siberia: Gone Alexander Andrievsky, came Nikolay Zavarukhin.
Ak Bars: Out Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, came Dmitry Kvartalnov.
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Several at once Russian players managed to reach the main draw Open Championship Belgium in De Haan. Perhaps this number is not so large, but our athletes in the Challenge series of the World Tour do not often please us with successful results, and now there is every reason to assume that it will not be limited to reaching one thirty-second final. So we'll be watching more closely. For whom exactly?
Firstly, of course, for Polina Mikhailova. Our girl was initially among the seeded athletes, so the St. Petersburg athlete did not take part in the preliminary stage, but saved up her strength for the main stage. Her first opponent is a member of the Egyptian national team, Audrey Zarif. She is a strong African tennis player, but she is quite tough for our Polina.
Anna Blazhko went through a more difficult path. She had to win as many as two victories - over Kristina Stefcova from the Czech Republic and Colombian Paula Medina (4-0 and 4-1, respectively) before getting into the main draw of the tournament. Next up is Welsh tennis player Carey Charlotte - she definitely needs to advance to the next stage! Another Russian woman in the playoffs is Olga Kulikova. She beat Czech Aneta Kurcherova (4-1) and strong naturalized Croatian Sun Jiayi (4-2). Now the strongest Georgina Pota will stand in her way - if she manages to get past her, then the sea will be knee-deep.
For men, initially only Kirill Skachkov made it into the main draw. But, thanks to his privileged position, the Russian received a relatively passable opponent as an opponent in the first round. This is the Chinese Qiu Dang, who despaired of getting at least some kind of calling in his homeland and went under the banner of the German national team. However, there are no former Chinese, and therefore Kirill will need to take the match with the utmost seriousness.
Two more Russians made it through qualification. Young Lev Katzman managed to defeat the American Nicholas Tio, and then, due to the injury of his next opponent, he easily entered the main stage of the tournament. Well, Vildan Gadiev honestly withstood both rounds - the Macedonian Andrei Putunchitsa (4-2 win) and the Indian Manav Vikash Thakkar (a similar score) did not survive in front of him. In total, six will play in the main stage - three men and three women.
Nikita Artemenko beat his strong Belarusian neighbor Gleb Shamruk, but lost to the Korean at the last stage of qualifying. Denis Ivonin was beaten by the Japanese Togami Shunsuke. Daria Shadrina lost to Korean Shin Yubin, and Daria Chernorai lost to Liu Ki from Hong Kong. The rest of the Russians also lost, and their representation in the main draw decreased by half compared to the qualifications. But now the most prepared ones are definitely left in the action - let's see how they manage to play their first matches in the playoffs.
Official name: UEFA Europa League
Number of participants: 186 qualifying teams, 48 group stage teams, 32 playoff participants
Basic provisions
The Europa League tournament is a direct successor to the UEFA Cup, retaining most of the rules of the famous “Old World” tournament. The competition includes three stages:
- Qualification
- Group stage
- Playoffs
Thanks to the new qualifying format adopted in 2011, the Europa League tournament lasts almost the entire calendar year, from July to May.
Qualifying round
In mid-July the first matches of the 1st qualifying round. The 50 second-placed teams in countries with odds from 35 to 53, the third-placed teams in championships from 22 to 41st place and the 3 fair play winners compete against each other in a two-legged clash.
In the next round, the 25 winners are joined by another 55 clubs: the winners of cup tournaments in championships with a rating from 30 to 53, the fifth teams of countries from 7th to 9th place, the bronze medalists of countries from 16th to 21st place and the winners fourth places in countries from 10th to 15th.
The 40 strongest teams make their way to the third round, joined by 30 clubs, among which are the sixth teams from the top three UEFA championships. Also at this stage, bronze medalists of championships with ratings from 7 to 9 and winners of cup tournaments of countries with ratings from 1 to 17 play their matches.
The last, fourth qualifying round, includes the 35 strongest teams from the previous stage, as well as an additional 41 teams, 15 of which are losers from the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League. In addition, the fifth teams of the top three UEFA rankings, the fourth-place holders in countries with odds from 4th to 6th and the bronze medalists of countries with a rating from 7th to 9th take part in this round.
Group stage
Automatically in group stage 17 clubs will be included from the list of participants based on the UEFA club rankings at the end of the 2017/18 season.
- The two strongest teams each from the five highest-ranked associations: Spain, Germany, England, Italy, France (10)
- One team each from associations occupying places from 6th to 12th in the ranking: Russia, Portugal, Ukraine, Belgium, Turkey, Czech Republic, Switzerland (7)
- Ten teams will reach the group stage after being eliminated from the Champions League - these are the six losers of the League Representative Path (losers of the third qualifying round and play-off round) and the four teams that will leave the Champions League after the play-off round in the Champions Path bracket.
Qualification
From the 2018/19 season, teams will compete in two different brackets: Champions Path and Main Path. The qualifying round will include teams from the list of participants based on the UEFA club rankings at the end of the 2016/17 season.
Champions Path (8 group stage berths)
The teams that will be eliminated from the Champions League between the preliminary round and the third qualifying round of the Champions Path will play here. In total, three qualifying rounds will be played:
- Second qualifying round: 20 teams eliminated from the Champions League after the preliminary round and first qualifying round
- Third qualifying round: 10 teams eliminated from the Champions League after the second qualifying round plus 10 winners of the second qualifying round of the Europa League Champions Path
- Play-off round: six teams eliminated from the Champions League after the third qualifying round plus 10 winners from the third qualifying round of the Europa League Champions Path
Main path (13 group stage berths)
The remaining Europa League participants from all 55 national associations will play here, plus the teams that leave the Champions League after defeat at the second qualifying round stage in the League Path bracket.
- Preliminary round: 16 teams
- First qualifying round: 86 teams plus eight preliminary round winners
- Second qualifying round: 27 teams plus 47 winners from the first qualifying round
- Third qualifying round: 15 teams (including the three clubs that exited the Champions League after losing at the second qualifying round stage in the League Path bracket) plus 37 second qualifying round winners
- Play-off round: 26 third qualifying round winners
Playoffs
At the playoff stage, 12 teams that took 3rd place in their Champions League groups join the tournament. This rule was introduced relatively recently - on the eve of the 2011/12 season. At this stage, teams play two matches: home and away. At this stage of the tournament important role the away goal rule is played, according to which a goal scored on the road is equal to one and a half goals scored at home;
The date of the Europa League final is determined in February-March and, as a rule, precedes the Champions League final. The match is held on a neutral field, however, due to the fact that the arena is chosen before the start of the tournament itself, a situation may arise when one of the teams in the final plays on their own home arena. If the winner is not identified in the regulated time, extra times follow, after which a penalty shootout is awarded.
Champion title and prize money
The original tournament trophy is kept forever by UEFA and will not be transferred after changes to the rules. Clubs are given a copy of it in proportions 4:5. The winner of the Europa League receives a ticket to the final of the European Super Cup and also has the right to participate in the next edition of this tournament. The Europa League is a great chance for modest teams to supplement their budget. For participation in the group stage alone, the club receives 650,000 euros + 60,000 for each match played. A win in the group stage is valued at 140,000 euros, and a draw at 70,000. At the qualifying stage, the team receives 90,000 euros regardless of the result.
In the playoffs, earnings increase significantly: 180,000 thousand in the 1/16 finals, 270,000 in the 1/8, 360,000 thousand for participation in the 1/4, 630,000 thousand for the semi-finals and finally, 2 million euros for participation in final. The winner will receive 3 million euros, as well as various bonuses from sponsors.
Trophy
The Europa League trophy is a silver cup awarded to the winner of the Europa League. This trophy is the heaviest UEFA club trophy (15 kg). The height of the cup is 65 cm, width - 33 cm, depth -23 cm.
A silver trophy on a yellow marble pedestal, which was created by the Italian masters Bertoni. The trophy has no handles.
According to the tournament rules, the cup is given to the winner for one year. The victor will receive only a copy of the cup for permanent possession. According to the regulations, the original can only be received by a club that has won the tournament three times in a row, or five times in total. This happened in 2016, when Sevilla fulfilled both criteria.
The group stage of the 2018 World Cup ended on June 28. Immediately after this it became known full list teams that made it to the playoffs.
Groups “A”, “B”, “C”, “D”
The Russians are the first to reach the playoffs of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Stanislav Cherchesov's team took second place in their quartet. However, this did not prevent the hosts of the tournament from reaching the 1/8 finals, gaining six points. Together with Russia, Uruguay left Group A. The Latin Americans showed an absolute result in the group round - nine points and three victories in a row.
Experts predicted that Spain and Portugal would leave Group B. Experts predicted second place in the quartet for the European champions. In this group, all predictions were fully realized. However, Spain did not have a clear advantage - both teams scored five points.
France and Denmark are the teams that qualified for the playoffs from Quartet C. The French scored seven points, the Danes five. These indicators were enough for the teams to advance to the 1/8 finals.
Croatia is one of the few teams that reached the playoffs with an absolute score of nine points. Argentina left Group D in second place with only four points.
Groups “E”, “F”, “G”, “H”
Brazil qualified for the 2018 FIFA World Cup playoffs from first place in Group E. However, the tournament favorites scored only seven points out of nine. They were followed by Switzerland with five points.
Group F was unexpectedly topped by Sweden. The Scandinavians, like the Mexicans, scored six points each. Both of these teams reached the playoffs of the 2018 FIFA World Cup, leaving the current champions, the Germans, behind.
The third team with nine points in the group is Belgium. The team won Quartet “G”. England took second place in this group. The Foggy Albion team scored six points, but lost the fight for leadership in the quartet to the Belgians.
Group "N" was the most unpredictable. As a result, the teams of Colombia and Japan left the quartet. The Latin Americans scored six points and became group winners. The Japanese, like the Senegalese, had four points. Asians advanced further in terms of better statistical indicators.
