2017 FANA World Cup

2017 FANA World Cup
FANA World Cup Lakadamia 2017
Tournament details
Host country	Lakadamia
Dates	7 July 2017 – 2 August 2017
Teams	32 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	12 (in 10 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	United States of Eldance
Runners-up	Lidonia
Third place	Angostura
Fourth place	Fordia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	65
Goals scored	238 (3.66 per match)
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The 2017 FANA World Cup was an international football tournament contested by men's national teams and took place between 7 July and 2 August 2017 in Lakadamia. It was the third FANA World Cup, a worldwide football tournament held once every year.

The finals involved 32 teams, of which 31 came through qualifying competitions, while the host nation Lakadamia qualified automatically.

Teams

Draw

In preparation for the final draw, the 32 participating teams were organized into four pots based on seedings and geographic regions. It was announced in October 2013 that the eight seeded teams to feature in Pot 1 would consist of the host nation Lakadamia and the seven highest-ranked teams as of that month's FANA World Rankings (see above). Following a meeting of the competition's organising committee on 15 June 2017, the composition of the other three pots were announced.

Pot 1 (Seeds)	Pot 2 (Western Centralia)	Pot 3 (Eastern Centralia and Easton)	Pot 4 (Westmont)
Lakadamia (11) (hosts) Cercasia (2) Fordia (7) Jarea (5) Orangina (6) Prunia (1) Scandavia (3) US Eldance (4)	Beklium Demacia Evergreen Frootania Harish Islands Glacea	Aquia De Vremdspongeln Flírskmasto Lanovina Lidonia Pacifica Pashlanahuy Sirenforest	Alkyria (drawn into Pot 2) Angostura Decoria Dýria Ermy Katsyria Marsia Ruyjin Republic Trivania Vradiazi

The draw procedure was as follows:

Two Westmont teams were first randomly drawn from Pot 4 and placed into Pot 2, in order to create four even pots of eight teams (in the draw Alkyria and Dýria were drawn out)
The draw then proceeded with the drawing of the other seven seeded teams from Pot 1 into Groups B−H, with Lakadamia having being predetermined to be in Group A.
To maximise geographic separation, an ancillary pot ("Pot X") was created during the draws into which the five seeded Non-Westmont (from Pot 1) were placed. Two of these five teams were then drawn out (in the draw Lakadamia and Cercasia were drawn out).
The two Westmont teams from Pot 2 were then automatically placed into the group of the two Non-Westmont teams that were drawn from "Pot X" (Alkyria was therefore placed into Lakadamia's group and Dýria into Cercasia's group); This process prevented three Westmont teams being grouped together.
All remaining teams were then drawn sequentially from the pots (i.e. Pots 2, 3, then 4) into the groups in alphabetical order (i.e. Group A, then Group B, etc.). During the drawing of Pot 2, groups could be skipped over as the two TBA teams in Pot 2 were not permitted to be drawn into the (remaining three) groups headed by Westmont seeds.
The positions within the eight groups were then drawn for the non-seeded teams, in order to determine the order of the fixtures within each group.

Venues

Host selection

The bidding for the 2017 FANA World Cup started in June 2016 with the national associations having until 8 July 2016 to register their interest in hosting the event. A total of 3 bids were submitted to FANA for the hosting of the event.

The members of FANA started voting on the hosts of the event on 8 July 2016. The results were unveiled on 12 July 2016 2020, with the Levallean bid securing the hosting rights for the event, while the Prunian/Scandavian bid came in second.

The voting results were:

2020 FANA bidding
Bidders	Result
Bidders	Votes
Lakadamia	7
Cercasia/Prunia	0
De Vremdspongeln	0

Group stage

Competing countries were divided into eight groups of four teams (groups A to H). Teams in each group played one another in a round-robin, with the top two teams advancing to the knockout stage.

All times listed below are local time.

Tiebreakers

The ranking of teams in the group stage was determined as follows:

Points obtained in all group matches;
Goal difference in all group matches;
Number of goals scored in all group matches;
Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Fair play points in all group matches (only one deduction could be applied to a player in a single match):
- Yellow card: –1 points;
- Indirect red card (second yellow card): –3 points;
- Direct red card: –4 points;
- Yellow card and direct red card: –5 points;
Playoff again.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lakadamia (H, A)	3	2	0	1	1	5	−4	6	Knockout stage
2	Alkyria (A)	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4	Knockout stage
3	Vradiazi	3	1	1	1	7	7	0	4
4	Pashlanahuy	3	1	0	2	9	10	−1	3

Source: FANA
(A) Advance to a further round; (H) Host.

Alkyria and Vradiazi had the same amount of wins, losses, defeats, goals for, goals against and goal differences at the end of the group stage. Following the tiebreak rules, a playoff organised between the two was held on 18 July 2017, with Alkyria winning 2−1 against Vradiazi, advancing onto the Round of 16.