Copa d'Aeia 2019

2019 FFA Copa d'Aeia
	Copa d'Aeia 2019 official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Qal'eh
Dates	18 June - 24 July 2019
Teams	32 (from 6 confederations)
Venue(s)	6 (in 6 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Midrasia (5th title)
Runners-up	Crylante
Third place	Mardin Isles
Fourth place	Goulong
Tournament statistics
Matches played	64
Goals scored	192 (3 per match)
Attendance	3,429,873 (53,592 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Enzo Lazaré
Best player(s)	Enzo Lazaré
Best young player	Marco Freixa
Best goalkeeper	Áron ú Dochartaigh
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The 2019 Copa d'Aeia was the 30th edition of the Copa d'Aeia, an international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of Football Federation of Aeia once every year. It took place in June and July from June 18th to July 24th 2019. It was the first Copa to be held in Qal'eh, and the first time that it had been held in Sifhar. At an estimated cost of over $8.9 billion, it was one of the most expensive football championships in the history of professional football. It was also the first Copa to use the video assistant referee (VAR) system.

Host selection

In March 2017, FFA announced that the tournament would be held in Qal'eh for the first time in history. Qal'eh announced that it will ballot for host earlier than all others, and in the process had more time to prepare. It decisively won the first round, taking Vidoria, the first team to ballot from Renekka, out of the competition. In the second round, Qal'eh again won in the first place, defeating the bid from Hytekia. Qal'eh was officially elected as host nation unopposed on 30 October 2017.

2019 host bidding (majority 11 votes)
Country	Round 1	Round 2
Qal'eh	9	13
Hytekia	4	2
Vidoria	2	Eliminated

Teams

Participants

Arabekh (2)

Asura (17)

Catai (3)

Majula (3)

Rennekka & Vestrim (5)

Savai (1)

Draw

In contrast with previous editions of the Copa d'Aeia it was announced that the 2019 tournament would utilise a different draw system for both the group stages and knockout rounds. Previously the host nation was automatically placed within group A, however the FFA designated that from 2019 onward the host nation would also be placed into the random draw along with every other participant. Additionally, it was decided that upon the conclusion of the group stage a new random draw would take place to decide the match-ups for the round-of-16. Controversially, no preference was given within the draw for teams which finished first or second within their group. Whilst this angered some as it was seen to not reward teams that performed well in the group stage; the FFA stated that the move was introduced in an attempt to add an extra level of "randomness and intrigue" to the knockout stages.

Venues

Anjilan Stadium	Makhadi Arena	Hossein Nemati Shah Stadium
Rezalakh	Siraf	Rahimabad
Capacity: 31,500	Capacity: 50,000	Capacity: 41,000
		File:King Fahd Int. Stadium- Opening Arabian Gulf Cup 2014.jpg
Omid Yazdan Arena	Tanjanak Stadium	Buyaqoli Stadium
Dahrzor	Sahlabad	Kyderabad
Capacity: 64,500	Capacity: 27,000	Capacity: 75,000
	File:Imam Reza Stadium of Mashhad.jpg	File:Tehran Azadi Stadium.jpg

Group stage

Key to colours in group tables
	Group winners and runners-up advance to the Round of 16

Group A


Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Hytekia	3	2	1	0	3	1	+2	7
Vvarden	3	2	0	1	6	4	+2	6
Template:Country data Vlodomeria Vlodomeria	3	1	0	2	4	3	+1	3
Onza	3	0	1	2	5	9	−4	1

18 June 2019

18:00

Template:Country data Vlodomeria	4–1	Onza
G. Ganchev 15' K. Dimitrov 52' A. Vitalev 64' (pen.), 87'		N. Emad 22'

Anjilan Stadium, Rezalakh

Attendance: 30,876

Referee: Remy Maitre (MDR)

23 June 2019