2018 UENA World Cup

2018 UENA World Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Orioni
Teams	16 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	15 (in 14 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Sunset Sea Islands (1st title)
Runners-up	Variota
Third place	Iverica
Tournament statistics
Matches played	32
Goals scored	65 (2.03 per match)
Attendance	1,787,893 (55,872 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Kevin Thu

The 2018 UENA World Cup was the 3rd running of the international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of UENA. It was scheduled to take place in Orioni throughout June and July 2018. It was the first World Cup to be held in Orioni.

The tournament involved 16 national teams from the three major confederations, which include 15 teams determined through qualifying competitions and the automatically qualified host team. A total of 31 matches were played at venues located in 14 cities across the country. The opening match took place on June 14th at the Zuidmax Stadium in Zuidhaven and the final took place on July 14th at the New National Stadium in O'polis. Sunset Sea Islands won the World Cup, after beating Variota in a sudden death penalty kick shootout following the two teams tieing in regulation and neither team scoring during extended play.

The choice for the official World Cup anthem was made by the Andro Academy of Fine Arts. From half a dozen nominations, the preference went to L'Été Oriental by Baloji, a musician-refugee from the war-torn nation of Afropa.

Group Stage

The 16 teams that qualified for the World Cup were arranged into 4 groups on June 13th, the day before the commencement of the tournament, at the Palace of Arts in Andro, Orioni. At the conclusion of that ceremony, the groups were as follows:

• Group A: Orioni (host), Derthalen, Shffahkia, Variota
• Group B: Adaptus, Fulgistan, Iverica, Selayar
• Group C: Asgeirria, Eurofuhrer, Gallambria, Mauridiviah
• Group D: Cristina, Morheim, Prymont, Sunset Sea Islands

Group A

Key to colours in group tables
	Team Advance to the Knockout Round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Variota (A)	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
Derthalen (A)	3	1	2	0	5	1	+4	5
Orioni	3	1	1	1	2	1	+1	4
Shffahkia	3	0	1	2	1	2	−1	1

14 June 2018
Orioni	1–1	Derthalen	Zuidmax Stadium, Zuidhaven

15 June 2018
Shffahkia	0-3	Variota	Vega Big Arch, Vega

22 June 2018
Orioni	1-0	Shffahkia	Green Stadium, Gruis

23 June 2018
Derthalen	4-0	Variota	New National Stadium, O'polis

30 June 2018
Orioni	0-1	Variota	Vega Big Arch, Vega

30 June 2018
Derthalen	0–0	Shffahkia	Green Stadium, Gruis

Group B

Key to colours in group tables
	Team Advance to the Knockout Round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Selayar (A)	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
Iverica (A)	3	1	2	0	5	3	+2	5
Fulgistan	3	0	2	1	2	2	0	2
Adaptus	3	0	2	1	0	2	−2	2

16 June 2018
Adaptus	0–0	Fulgistan	Breguet Stadium, Nordhaven

17 June 2018
Iverica	3-1	Selayar	Azadi Stadium, Perseus

24 June 2018
Adaptus	0–0	Iverica	Pontus Athletic Stadium, Pontus

25 June 2018
Fulgistan	0-1	Selayar	Breguet Stadium, Nordhaven

1 July 2018
Adaptus	0–2	Selayar	Vega Big Arch, Vega

1 July 2018
Fulgistan	2-2	Iverica	Sirius Savings Stadium, Sirius

Group C

Key to colours in group tables
	Team Advance to the Knockout Round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Gallambria (A)	3	3	0	0	3	3	0	9
Asgeirria (A)	3	2	0	1	4	3	+1	6
Eurofuhrer	3	1	0	2	2	4	−2	3
Mauridiviah	3	0	0	3	4	7	−3	0

18 June 2018
Asgeirria	1–0	Eurofuhrer	CCC Arena, Corona Borealis

19 June 2018
Gallambria	1–0	Mauridiviah	Siena Fleet Park, Cygnus

26 June 2018
Asgeirria	0–1	Gallambria	Canvas Stadium, Dion

27 June 2018
Eurofuhrer	3–2	Mauridiviah	CCC Arena, Corona Borealis

2 July 2018
Asgeirria	3–2	Mauridiviah	Siena Fleet Park, Cygnus

2 July 2018
Eurofuhrer	0–1	Gallambria	Canvas Stadium, Dion

Group D

Key to colours in group tables
	Team Advance to the Knockout Round

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Sunset Sea Islands (A)	3	2	1	0	4	4	0	7
Cristina (A)	3	2	0	1	5	5	0	6
Prymont	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
Morheim	3	0	0	3	2	5	−3	0

20 June 2018
Cristina	2-1	Morheim	Andro Arena, Andro

21 June 2018
Prymont	2-2	Sunset Sea Islands	MedPharm Dome, Meda

28 June 2018
Cristina	2-1	Prymont	Oris City Stadium, Oris

29 June 2018
Morheim	1-2	Sunset Sea Islands	Andro Arena, Andro

3 July 2018
Cristina	1-3	Sunset Sea Islands	Siena Fleet Park, Cygnus

3 July 2018
Prymont	1-0	Morheim	Oris City Stadium, Oris

Knockout Stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	6 December – Meda
	Variota	1 (4)
					10 December – Andro
	Cristina	1 (3)
					Variota	2
	6 December – Dion
					Gallambria	0
	Selayar	0
									20 December – O'Polis
	Gallambria	1
									Variota	2 (4)
	6 December – Nordhaven
									Sunset Sea Islands	2 (5)
	Asgeirria	1 (4)
					10 December – Zuidhaven
	Iverica	1 (5)
					Iverica	0
	6 December – Sirius
					Sunset Sea Islands	1			Third place
	Sunset Sea Islands	3
									20 December – Sirius
	Derthalen	0
									Gallambria	0
									Iverica	1

Statistics

Goalscorers

There were 65 goals scored in 32 matches, for an average of 2.03 goals per match.

4 goals

• Kevin Thu

3 goals

• Ollie Sæther
• Mark Milligan
• Janos Kvothe
• Léonel Messy

2 goals

• Mendel Hendriksen
• Thurman Aldo av Widuwald
• Sigmond Vucari
• Giuseppe Nazzara
• Max Neu
• Vandi Baravani
• Paul Buttler
• Jannes Sloffeboer
• Robert Schweitzberger
• Ibrahim Wu

1 goals

• Julio Hoffmann
• Harry Balleman
• Pandu Culanama
• Diego Sorro
• Player 3
• Player 9
• Georg Hugin
• Reynado Salcedo
• Player 6
• Luigi Sandre
• Rocco Albani
• Fillip Roth
• Ratnam Jain
• Adolf Schneider
• Player 6
• Philetus Marmo
• Héctor Bartolomei
• Player
• Leonart Barth
• Bima Adisatya
• Luis Suaress
• Pietro Deisant
• Yusuf Majid
• Hakim Bozaan
• Marton Windsor
• Livianus Aristodemos
• Michael Hughes
• Hoang Nam
• Savio Ponzio
• Adriano Concetto
• Jan fan'es Linkefoet
• Pietro Deisant
• Duc Phung
• Hari Omar
• Wilm fan Frau
• Johan 'Bolle Jo' fan Branttorp

Discipline

The following suspensions were served during the tournament.

• 1 red card, to Shffahkia
• 120 yellow cards, of which 17 to Variota
• 1323 fouls, of which 147 to Variota