The 2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships was the world championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes competed with a physical disability. The Championship took place in the Argentina from 4 to 24 September 2017.

Football CP Football was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications 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 Qualifying The following teams were qualified for the tournament: Means of qualificationDateVenueBerthsQualified Host nation 1 Argentina 2015 World Championships 16 – 28 June 2015 Burton-upon-Trent, England 7 Brazil England Ireland Netherlands Russia Ukraine United States 2016 World Championships Qualification Tournament 29 July – 6 August 2016 Vejen, Denmark 8 Australia Canada Iran Japan Northern Ireland Portugal Spain1 Venezuela Total 16 1 Scotland would be qualified as a second-placed team by the qualifying tournament for the World Cup. But they had to withdraw their participation. Thus, the nine-place team of the qualifying team, Spain, took part and took part in the world championship.

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 Brazil (2) Argentina (4) Netherlands (3) Ukraine (1) Pot 2 Ireland (5) Russia (7) England (8) United States (6) Pot 3 Canada (10) Portugal (11) Venezuela (12) Northern Ireland (13) Pot 4 Spain (22) Iran (15) Japan (14) Australia (16)

Squads

Group A Brazil Ireland Canada Spain1 Marcos Dos Santos Ferreira (GK) 2 Eduardo Felipe da Silva Martins 3 Ewerton Rafael Machado de Matos 4 Lucas Henrique da Silva 5 Wesley Martins 6 Leonardo Giovani Moraes 7 Diego Delgado 8 Evandro Oliveira Gomes De Oliveira 9 Ubirajara Magalhães 10 Wanderson Silva de Oliveira 11 Jan da Costa 12 13 Bruno da Silva Ayva 14 Adriano Costa Martins Coach: Paulo Alberto Da Veiga1 James Gerard Naughton (GK) 2 Thomas Maher 3 Conor Tuite 4 Oisin Gerard Merritt 5 Aaron Tier 6 Dylan Patrick O'Brien 7 Gary Messett (c) 8 Mark Patrick Barry 9 Ryan Nolan 10 Dillon Sheridan 11 Oluwatomiwa Henk Badun 12 Peter Cotter 13 Samson Paul Carroll 14 Carl McKee Coach: Paul Breen1 Damien Wojtiw (GK) 2 Liam Stanley 3 Dan Benoit 4 Nicholas Heffernan 5 Samuel Charron (c) 6 James Victor Ackinclose 7 Dustin Hodgson 8 Duncan McDonald 9 Gaerrisen Freeland 10 Zachary Gingras 11 Raji Kamoun 12 Joshua da Silva 13 Cameron Ohanley 14 Cuauhtemoc Flores Coach: Drew Ferguson1 Antonio Jesus Dominguez Galvan (GK) 2 Isaias Pacheco Fernandez 3 4 Daniel Manjon Gomez (c) 5 Alan Flores Pinto 6 Pol Aguilar Diaz 7 Santiago Macia Rovira 8 Daniel Palau Ballester 9 Jose Manuel Bueno Ruiz 10 Jose Manuel Gomez Suarez 11 Mario Fernandez Pardo 12 Victor Rodriguez Dominguez 13 Francisco Jose Martin Guiterrez (GK) 14 Jaume Almenar Avino Coach: Jorge Peleteiro Rubio

Group B Argentina Russia Portugal Iran1 Matias Salvat (GK) 2 Hernando German Romussi 3 Maximiliano Fernandez 4 Claudio Figuera (c) 5 Carlos Carrizo 6 Mariano Cortes 7 Rodrigo Lugrin 8 Kevin Damian Bonomi 9 Matiaz Fernadez 10 Mariano Morana 11 Duncan Coronel 12 Gonzal Bacik (GK) 13 Juan Andrés Acevedo 14 Matías Ezequiel Vera Coach: Osvaldo Hernandez1 Vladislav Raretskii (GK) 2 Danila Belov 3 Aleksei Borkin 4 Zaurbek Pagaev 5 Viacheslav Larionov 6 Aleksey Tumakov 7 Marat Eloev 8 Ivan Potekhin 9 Dmitry Minenko 10 Dmitrii Pestretsov 11 Aleksandr Kuligin 12 Guram Chkareuli (GK) 13 Lasha Murvanadze (c) 14 Georgiy Albegov Coach: Avtandil Baramidze1 Rui Rocha (GK) 2 Ivo Emanuel De Souza Correia 3 Hugo Pinheiro 4 Vasco Santos 5 Ruben Miguel Sousa Oliveira 6 Luís Miguel Leal Ferreira 7 Vitor Vilarinho (c) 8 Pedro Santos 9 Rui Diogo Ribeiro Gonçalves 10 Tiago Ramos 11 Jesus Leao Barbosa 13 Lucas Pinheiro 12 Cláudio Filipe Ferreira Nóvoa 14 Telmo Baptista (GK) Coach: Vasco Santos Ferreira1 Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi (GK) 2 Amir Amjadian 3 Amirreza Ezzatdoust Sehsari 4 Hassan Safari 5 6 Abbas Torabi 7 Abdolreza Karimizadeh (c) 8 Hossein Tiz Bor 9 Mehdi Jamali 10 Jasem Bakhshi 11 Ehsan Masoumzadeh 12 Habibollah Heidari Mehr (GK) 13 Lotfollah Jangjou 14 Mohsen Mokhtari Coach: Amin Allah Mani

Group C Netherlands England Venezuela Japan1 George van Altena 2 Gerard Frederik Bambacht 3 Myron Gebbink 4 Jeroen Schuitert (c) 5 Teddy Witjes 6 Malik Madiba de la Cruz Victoria 7 Daan Dikken 8 Guido Floors 9 Jeroen Saedt 10 Harm Panneman 11 Rik Rodenburg 12 Ramon Pater (GK) 13 Jeroen Duin 14 Job Draaijers Coach: Max Raeven1 Giles Moore (GK) 2 Liam Roger Irons 3 Harry Baker 4 James Blackwell 5 Emyle Rudder 6 Matthew Anthony Crossen 7 Michael Barker 8 Jack Rutter 9 David Porcher 10 George Fletcher 11 Oliver Nugent 12 Dale Smith 13 Ryan Kay 14 Lewis Martin Tribe Coach: Andrew Smith1 2 Stewart Xavier Ortiz Sira 3 4 Peter Alvarado Gonzales 5 Daniel Sánchez 6 Richard Mogollon Melendez 7 Gabriel Antonio Bravo Olivi 8 Asbrubal Olivares Mora (c) 9 Angel Molina Camacho 10 Jessy Yari Villegas 11 Saul Torres Villegas 17 Jose Quintana 18 Anderson Alberto Morantes Ramirez 99 Frank Pineda Terán (GK) Coach: José Luis Betancor1 Hideyuki Yanaghi 2 Hisato Ozaki 3 Shou Kuroda 4 5 Shotaro Osawa 6 Tetsuya Toda 7 Tomohisa Ono 8 Hiroki Kameno 9 Taisei Taniguchi 10 Ryosuke Miura 11 Tatsuhiro Ura 12 Naoyoshi Kagayama (GK) 13 Kazuma Hanaki 14 Coach: Junichi Sano

Group D Ukraine United States Northern Ireland Australia1 Kostyantyn Symashko (GK) 2 Vitaliy Trushev 3 Yevhen Zinoviev 4 Taras Dutko 5 Oleh Len 6 Edhar Kahramanian 7 Vitaliy Romanchuk 8 Artem Sheremet 9 Dmytro Molodtsov 10 Stanislav Podolskyi 11 Volodymyr Antoniuk (c) 12 Bohdan Kulynych (GK) 13 Artem Krasylnykov 14 Ivan Shkvarlo Coach: Serghii Ovcharenko1 Sean Robert Boyle (GK) 2 Cameron DeLillo 3 Gregory William Brigman 4 Tyler Bennett 5 Bryce Boarman 6 Benjamin Lindau 7 Adam Ballou 8 Andrew Marten Bremer 9 Seth Jahn 10 Kevin Hensley (c) 11 Nicholas Mayhugh 12 Marc Estrella (GK) 13 Mason Abbiate 14 David Garza Coach: Stuart Sharp1 Paul Seamus Cassidy (GK) 2 Charlie Fogarty 3 Christian Canning (GK) 4 Jordan Walker 5 Cormac Birt 6 Timothy William McClean 7 David Leavy (c) 8 Sean Coyle 9 Ryan Walker 10 11 Jordan Cush 12 13 14 Ryan Jonathan Neill Coach: Alan Crooks1 Chris Barty (GK) 2 Ben Roche (c) 3 Jack Williams 4 Nicholas Prescott 5 6 Taj Lynch 7 David Barber 8 Matthew Hearne 9 Ben Atkins 10 Benjamin Sutton 11 James Turner 12 Christian Tsangas (GK) 13 Cosimo Cirillo 14 Zachary Jones Coach: Kai Lammert

Venues The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in San Luis.

San LuisProvincial Juan Gilberto Funes StadiumStadium Estancia GrandeCampus de Universidad De La PuntaStadium La PedreraCapacity: 15,000Capacity: 1,500Capacity: Capacity:

Format

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 16 teams divided among four groups 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 sixteen. the two lower ranked teams played for the positions 17 to 32. 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 playThe 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

Group B

Group C

Group D

Knockout stage Quarter-finals Position 9-16

Position 1-8

Semi-finals Position 13-16

Position 9-12

Position 5-8

Position 1-4

Finals Position 15-16

Position 13-14

Position 11-12

Position 9-10

Position 7-8

Position 5-6

Position 3-4

Final

Statistics Goalscorers 10 goals Dillon Sheridan

8 goals Dmitrii Pestretsov Hossein Tiz Bor

6 goals Samuel Charron David Porcher

5 goals

Volodymyr Antoniuk Adam Ballou Kevin Damian Bonomi Cameron DeLillo George Fletcher Mariano Morana

4 goals

James Victor Ackinclose Aleksei Borkin Mehdi Jamali Viacheslav Larionov Ubirajara Magalhães Gary Messett Vitaliy Romanchuk

3 goals

Ryan Walker Wanderson Silva de Oliveira Juan Andrés Acevedo Michael Barker Adriano Costa Martins Eduardo Felipe da Silva Martins Taras Dutko Zachary Jones Artem Krasylnykov Oliver Nugent Rik Rodenburg Aaron Tier

2 goals

Ben Atkins Evandro Oliveira Gomes De Oliveira Mariano Cortes Matthew Anthony Crossen Marat Eloev Kevin Hensley Seth Jahn Aleksandr Kuligin Wesley Martins Ehsan Masoumzadeh Leonardo Giovani Moraes Asbrubal Olivares Mora Stanislav Podolskyi Jose Quintana Jack Rutter Jeroen Schuitert Artem Sheremet Ivan Shkvarlo Dale Smith Liam Stanley Lewis Martin Tribe Tatsuhiro Ura Yari Villegas

1 goal

Jasem Bakhshi David Barber James Blackwell Andrew Marten Bremer Carlos Carrizo Duncan Coronel Jan da Costa Malik Madiba de la Cruz Victoria Amirreza Ezzatdoust Sehsari Matiaz Fernadez Maximiliano Fernandez Claudio Figuera David Garza Jose Manuel Gomez Suarez Edhar Kahramanian Luís Miguel Leal Ferreira David Leavy Oleh Len Rodrigo Lugrin Adriano Costa Martins Nicholas Mayhugh Duncan McDonald Dmitry Minenko Dmytro Molodtsov Zaurbek Pagaev Mario Fernandez Pardo Lucas Pinheiro Nicholas Prescott Rui Diogo Ribeiro Gonçalves Ben Roche Santiago Macia Rovira Jeroen Saedt Amirreza Ezzatdoust Sehsari Aleksey Tumakov Jordan Walker

own goals 2 x Ben Atkins 2 x Tomohisa Ono

Ranking RankTeam Ukraine Iran Russia4. England5. United States6. Ireland7. Brazil8. Netherlands9. Argentina10. Australia11. Northern Ireland12. Portugal13. Canada14. Venezuela15. Spain16. Japan

See also

References

External links Official website

2017 IFCPF World Championships Logo 2017 IFCPF CP Football World Championships from the website ifcpf.com Ranking from the website ifcpf.com Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association (CPISRA) International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football (IFCPF)