The second round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup has ended. Now it has become known how many teams come out of the group and fight for victory in the final. So, out of 32 teams that applied for participation in international competitions, only 16 came to 1/8.
This means that the decisive tournaments will be decisive in choosing the winner. The successful start of the matches provided Russia, as the host, with the right to continue the tournaments.
How the best teams were selected
All teams were divided into 8 groups, each was named according to the first letters of the English alphabet. Under the corresponding letter, 4 teams played. From the entire group, only those teams that scored the most points were admitted to the final competitions.
If main criterion turned out to be equivalent - they considered the number of goals scored or conceded. When, according to the calculations, the teams are on equal positions, preference is given to the country whose team got into the opponent's goal more.
If these calculations also gave the same result, they begin to calculate the behavior of the players on the field by the number of warnings and removals:
- yellow card equals (-1) point;
- 2 yellow cards and 1 removal - equal to (-3) points;
- a red card takes 4 points from the team;
- yellow in combination with red takes away 5 points from the team.
If the complex calculations of fair play and misses of opponents on the field led to the same result, FIFA has the right to play 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 superfinal, the situation in different groups is as follows.
Group A
Members:
- Russia- scored 6 points.
- Saudi Arabia- left with nothing - 0.
- Uruguay tried the most - 9 points.
- Egypt- just scored 3 points.
The South Americans surprised their opponents and scored the most points, winning 3 matches at once.
Slightly disappointed her fans with a resounding loss, but still managed to take second place in the team.
Group B
Members:
- Spain- took first place in the group, will continue to play with the Russians.
- Iran- could not break through the defense of the South Americans, did not reach the final.
- Portugal- barely slipped into the playoffs by the number of points.
- Morocco- Eliminated with zero points.
Iran 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
Members:
- France- immediately came 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, they were in second place with 5 points.
- Australia- earned 1 point and flew out of 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 succeed in a productive game.
Group D
Members:
- Croatia- reached the final with 9 points, will fight with the Danes.
- Nigeria- lost to the South Americans, flew home.
- Iceland- failed to score the required number of points and also left Russia.
- Argentina- snatched a victory from the representatives of the African continent with her teeth and won the right to participate in further tournaments.
The South Americans amazed everyone with a friendly squad that rebelled against the head coach. As a result, the legendary Messi became the leader of their game.
This provided her with an exit in 1/8. 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
Members:
- Brazil—immediately became leaders in their group, but decided not to trade and added a victory over the Serbs to the points scored.
- Switzerland- was able to draw the last fight with Costa Rica, keeping the number of points with the right game, will participate in the 1/8 finals from the second place.
- Costa Rica- failed to beat the Europeans and leave the championship.
- Serbia- go home with a minimum number of points.
In this group, only Costa Ricans were doomed to lose. The rest of the teams hoped until the last minute to reach the playoffs and participate in the continuation of the fights on the field.
Just recently it became known how many teams are leaving the group for the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
Group F
Members:
- Mexico- goes to the finish line from the second place in the group.
- Germany- unexpectedly for everyone and for herself, she flew out of the competition after a resounding defeat in the match with the Asians. Even the fans in the stands could not hold back their tears, and Main coach fully justified.
- South Korea - despite the success of the playoffs, she could not break through on points.
- Sweden- defeated the Mexicans to smithereens, went on to continue the competition from the first place in the group.
Here it is worth paying attention to the defeat of the reigning world champions - for the Germans the situation turned out to be a stalemate.
Group G
Members:
- England- defeated the Panamanians and went to 1/8.
- Belgium- June 28 will play with the British for the right to reach the 1/8 finals. Both teams scored the same number of points, and now they will fight for the right to participate in the final competition.
- Panama- leaves home from inhospitable Russia.
- Tunisia- could not prove his worth with more eminent teams, he also goes home.
The final match will determine the native of the group at the Kaliningrad stadium.
Group H
Members:
- Japan—must score a couple more points to reach the playoffs.
- Poland- Definitely going home, despite the final match with Japan.
- Senegal—fights at the next tournament with the South Americans.
- Colombia- will try to score the missing points with goals in the next tournament dates.
It is still unknown how many teams qualify from the group for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, as there is still a series of matches to be played.
The 2019-2020 season has ended ahead of schedule, all remaining matches have been cancelled. The decision on the final distribution of seats will be announced shortly. Follow the update.
At the time of the suspension of the championship, all series of matches of the quarter-finals of the conferences were completed, and the semi-finals 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 supposed to end by April 30.
Members
At the end of last season, the league did not exclude the club that showed the lowest sports and financial results in the KHL club rating. But in mid-May, it became known that Slovan had no 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 "Siberia" in the "East" moved to the Kharlamov division.
Calendar
During the 2019-2020 regular season, each team plays 62 games, for a total of 744 games. For each stage of the Eurotour, pauses of 6 days are planned - for Karjala Cup from 5 to 10 November, on Channel One Cup from 10 to 15 December and on Swedish stage from 4 to 9 February 2020.
Week of the Stars 2020 was held in Moscow from 11 to 19 January. This is the WHL All-Star Game on January 11, the next day the JHL Challenge Cup, 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, as part of KHL World Games, passed the rendered matches. So in early September, Kunlun Red Star played 6 home matches in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, on September 17 and 20 in Alma-Ata, Barys played with Spartak and Tractor, on December 23, Salavat Yulaev met in Davos, Switzerland and Ak Bars, and on January 10 and 11 Finnish Jokerit played against Severstal in Tallinn.
Leaderboard
During the regular season, all teams play two matches between themselves (46 matches), in addition to this, 10 matches with the teams of their Division and 6 matches with the 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 go to 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 inside the conferences, and the winners of the "West" and "East" meet in the championship final, where they fight for the main trophy - the Gagarin Cup.
Coaching resignations at the end of the season
Admiral: Gone Sergey Svetlov, came Leonid Tambiev.
Dynamo R : Out Girts Ankipans.
Coaching changes during the season
Tractor: Gone Peteris Skudra, came Vladimir Yurzinov Jr..
Sochi: Gone Sergey Zubov, came Alexander Andrievsky.
Locomotive: Gone Craig McTavish, came Michael Pelino.
Metallurg Mg: Gone Josef Jandach, came Ilya Vorobyov.
Coaching changes before the start of the season
SKA: Out Ilya Vorobyov, came Alexey Kudashov.
Locomotive: Gone Dmitry Kvartalnov, came Craig McTavish.
Dynamo Mn: Out Andrey Sidorenko, came Craig Woodcroft.
Vityaz: Gone Valery Belov, came Mikhail Kravets.
Spartacus: Gone Alexey Zhamnov, came Oleg Znarok.
Tractor: Gone Alexey Tertyshny, came Peteris Skudra.
Siberia: Gone Alexander Andrievsky, came Nikolai Zavarukhin.
Ak Bars: Out Zinetula Bilyaletdinov, came Dmitry Kvartalnov.
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Several Russian players managed to get into the main draw Open Championship Belgium in De Haan. Perhaps this number is not so high, however, our athletes in the World Tour Challenge series tournaments do not often please us with successful results, and now there is every reason to believe that the matter will not be limited to reaching the one thirty-second final. So we'll be watching more closely. For whom exactly?
First, of course, for Polina Mikhailova. Our girl initially got into the number of seeded athletes, so the St. Petersburg athlete did not participate in the preliminary stage, but saved up strength for the main stage. Her first opponent is a member of the Egyptian national team, Audrey Zarif. A strong African tennis player, but she is quite "too tough" for our Polina.
Anna Blazhko went through a more difficult path. She had to win as many as two victories - over Kristina Steftsova from the Czech Republic and Colombian Paula Medina (4-0 and 4-1 respectively) before getting into the main draw of the tournament. Next, Welsh tennis player Carey Charlotte is waiting for her - she definitely needs to go to the next stage! Another Russian in the playoffs is Olga Kulikova. She beat the Czech Aneta Kurcherova (4-1) and the strong naturalized Croatian Sun Chiayi (4-2). Now the strongest Georgina Pota will stand in her way - if she manages to pass it, then the sea will be knee-deep.
In men, initially only Kirill Skachkov got into the main draw. But, thanks to his privileged position, the Russian received a relatively passable opponent as rivals in the first round. This is the Chinese Kyu Dang, who despaired of getting at least some kind of calling at home 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 their way through the qualification. Young Lev Katsman managed to defeat the American Nicholas Tio, and then, due to the injury of the next opponent, he got into the main stage of the tournament without any problems. Well, Vildan Gadiev honestly withstood both rounds - Macedonian Andrei Putunchitsa (4-2 victory) and Indian Manav Vikash Thakkar (similar score) could not stand before him. In total, six will play in the main stage - three men and three women.
Nikita Artemenko outplayed the strong Belarusian neighbor Gleb Shamruk, but lost to the Korean at the last stage of qualification. Denis Ivonin was beaten by the Japanese Togami Shunsuke. Daria Shadrina ran into Korean Shin Yubin, while Daria Chernorai lost to Liu Ki from Hong Kong. The rest of the Russians also lost, and their representation in the main draw fell by half compared to the qualification. But now the most prepared ones are definitely in business - let's see how they manage to spend their first matches in the playoffs.
Official name: UEFA Europa League (UEFA Europa League)
Number of participants: 186 qualifying teams, 48 group stage teams, 32 playoff teams
Key points
The Europa League tournament is the direct heir 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-place teams in countries ranked 35 to 53, the third-place teams in championships ranked 22 to 41, and the 3 fair play winners compete against each other in a two-legged match-up format.
In the next round, 55 more clubs join the 25 winners: cup winners in championships ranked from 30 to 53, fifth teams from countries from 7th to 9th, bronze medalists from countries from 16th to 21st and owners of 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 the sixth teams of the three leading UEFA championships stand out. Also at this stage, bronze medalists of the championships with a rating of 7 to 9 and winners of the cup tournaments of countries with a rating of 1 to 17 play their matches.
The last, fourth qualifying round includes 35 strongest teams from the previous stage, as well as an additional 41 teams, 15 of which are losers of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League. In addition, the fifth teams from the top three of the UEFA rankings, the fourth-placed teams in countries with coefficients from 4th to 6th, and the bronze medalists of countries ranked from 7th to 9th take part in this round.
Group stage
Automatically in group stage 17 clubs from the list of participants based on the UEFA club rankings at the end of the 2017/18 season will qualify.
- Top two teams each from the five highest ranked associations: Spain, Germany, England, Italy, France (10)
- One team each from associations ranked 6th to 12th: Russia, Portugal, Ukraine, Belgium, Turkey, Czech Republic, Switzerland (7)
- Ten teams will qualify for the group stage after being eliminated from the Champions League - these are the six losers of the League Path (losers of the third qualifying round and play-off round) and four teams that will leave the Champions League after the play-off round in the Champions Path.
Qualification
Starting from the 2018/19 season, teams will compete in two different brackets: Champions Path and Main Path. Teams from the list of participants compiled on the basis of the UEFA club ranking at the end of the 2016/17 season will compete in the qualification.
Path of Champions (8 places in the group stage)
Teams that are knocked out of 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 that left the Champions League after the preliminary round and the first qualifying round
- Third qualifying round: 10 teams that left 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 that left the Champions League after the third qualifying round plus 10 winners of the third qualifying round of the Europa League Champions League
Main track (13 group stage berths)
The rest of the Europa League participants from all 55 national associations will play here, plus the teams that will leave the Champions League after losing 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 first qualifying round winners
- Third qualifying round: 15 teams (including the three clubs that left the Champions League after losing the second qualifying round in the League Path) plus 37 second qualifying round winners
- Play-off round: 26 winners from the third qualifying round
Playoffs
At the playoff stage, 12 teams join the tournament, having taken 3rd places in their Champions League groups. This rule was introduced relatively recently - on the eve of the 2011/12 season. At this stage, the teams play two matches: home and away. At this stage of the tournament important role plays the away goal rule, according to which a goal scored away 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 fight 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 happen when one of the teams in the final will play on their own. home arena. If the winner is not revealed in the regulated time, extra-times follow, after which a penalty shoot-out is assigned.
Championship title and prize money
The original trophy of the tournament is kept forever by UEFA and is not transferred after changes in the rules. Clubs are given a copy of it in proportions of 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 draw of this tournament. The Europa League is a great chance for modest teams to replenish 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 and a draw at €70,000. At the qualifying stage, the team receives €90,000 regardless of the result.
In the playoffs, earnings increase significantly: 180,000 thousand in the 1/16 finals, 270,000 in 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 cup is 65 cm high, 33 cm wide and 23 cm deep.
Silver trophy on a pedestal of yellow marble, which was created by the Italian masters Bertoni. The trophy has no handles.
According to the rules of the tournament, the cup is transferred to the winner for one year. In permanent possession, the victor will receive only a copy of the cup. According to the regulations, only the club that won the tournament three times in a row, or five times in total, can receive the original. This happened in 2016, when Sevilla fulfilled both criteria.
The group stage of the 2018 World Cup ended on June 28. Immediately after this became known full list teams that qualified for the playoffs.
Groups "A", "B", "C", "D"
The Russians are the first to reach the playoffs of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Wards of Stanislav Cherchesov took second place in their quartet. However, this did not prevent the hosts of the tournament from reaching the 1/8 finals with six points. Together with Russia, Uruguay left Group A. Latin Americans showed an absolute result in the group round - nine points and three wins in a row.
Experts predicted that Spain and Portugal would leave Group B. Experts predicted the second place in the quartet for the European champions. In this group, all forecasts were fully realized. However, Spain did not have a clear advantage - both teams scored five points each.
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 quite enough for the teams to pass 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 knockout stages from first place in Group E. However, the tournament favorites scored only seven points out of nine. They were followed by Switzerland, which has five points.
Group "F" was unexpectedly led 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 behind the reigning champions - the Germans.
The third team to score nine points in the group is Belgium. The national team won the quartet "G". The second place in this group was taken by England. The Foggy Albion team scored six points, but lost to the Belgians in the fight for leadership in the quartet.
Group "H" was the most unpredictable. As a result, the teams of Colombia and Japan left the quartet. Latin Americans scored six points and became the winners of the group. The Japanese, like the Senegalese, had four points. The Asians advanced further on the best stats.
