2021 FANA World Cup qualification (FCS)

2021 FANA World Cup qualification (FCS)

Tournament details
Host countries	Qualifications: Various Regional Cup: Torlova
Dates	Qualifications: 5 December 2020 - 20 February 2021 2021 FCS Cup: 26 April 2021 - 1 May 2021
Teams	19 (from 1 confederation)
Final positions
Champions	Ninelie (1st title)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	80 // 72 (Q) / 8 (RC)

The Sakodan section of the 2021 FANA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2021 FANA World Cup and the FCS knockout stage, for national teams that are members of the Football Confederation of Sakoda (FCS). A total of 8 spots were available for FCS teams in the final tournament. 8 spots in total were also available for FCS teams in the regional cup, held in Torlova.

First round

Seeding

The seeding was based on the FANA World Rankings of November 2020. The 19 teams were seeded into 5 pots with 4 countries in the first 4 and 3 countries in the last pot.

• Pot 1 contains the teams ranked 1–4.
• Pot 2 contains the teams ranked 5–8.
• Pot 3 contains the teams ranked 9–12.
• Pot 4 contains the teams ranked 13–16.
• Pot 5 contains the teams ranked 17–19.

Each five-team group contained one team from each of the six pots, while the last four-team group contained one team from each of the first four pots.

Teams were allocated to seeding pots as follows (October 2020 FANA Rankings shown in second column; the national teams which eventually qualified for the final tournament are presented in bold; the national teams who took part in the play-offs are presented in italic).

Pot 1 Team Pos Jarea 11 Torlova 14 Sirenforest 18 Moly-Boronia 19

Pot 2 Team Pos Hansaaria 19 Ninelie 27 Corzazjan 28 Gasandae 42

Pot 3 Team Pos Alkyria 55 Beklium 60 Ahktora 60 Boninbourg 60

Pot 4 Team Pos Taslana 60 Kaminaria 60 Te Ao 60 Inotyol 60

Pot 5 Team Pos Bregana 60 Manhario 60 Baesnia 60

Summary

  Top 2 of each group qualified directly for the 2021 FANA World Cup and for the FCS Regional Cup

  The best 3rd place advanced to the inter-confederation playoff

  Other teams were eliminated after the first round

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Torlova Hansaaria	Ninelie Jarea	Sirenforest Taslana	Moly-Boronia Gasandae
Te Ao
Beklium Bregana	Alkyria Inotyol Manhario	Corzazjan Baesnia Ahktora	Boninbourg Kaminaria

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Torlova	8	8	0	0	24	4	+20	24	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and regional cup.		—	2–1	2–1	7–0	3–0
2	Hansaaria	8	5	0	3	11	4	+7	15			1–2	—	2–1	1–0	2–0
3	Te Ao	8	5	0	3	13	13	0	15	Advance to inter-confederation play-offs.		1–6	1–0	—	2–1	3–1
4	Beklium	8	2	0	6	9	19	−10	6			0–1	0–3	1–3	—	3–2
5	Bregana	8	0	0	8	4	21	−17	0			1–3	0–2	0–1	0–4	—

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Ninelie	8	5	2	1	13	6	+7	17	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and regional cup.		—	2–0	1–1	2–0	2–0
2	Jarea	8	5	2	1	10	6	+4	17			2–1	—	2–0	2–1	1–1
3	Alkyria	8	3	3	2	17	10	+7	12			2–3	0–0	—	2–2	5–1
4	Inotyol	8	1	2	5	9	13	−4	5			0–1	0–1	1–3	—	2–2
5	Manhario	8	0	3	5	6	20	−14	3			1–1	1–2	0–4	0–3	—

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Sirenforest	8	6	1	1	15	4	+11	19	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and regional cup.		—	2–0	1–0	3–0	1–0
2	Taslana	8	4	3	1	9	3	+6	15			1–1	—	2–0	1–0	3–0
3	Corzazjan	8	4	1	3	13	6	+7	13			2–1	0–0	—	7–0	2–0
4	Baesnia	8	1	2	5	4	17	−13	5			1–3	0–0	2–1	—	0–1
5	Ahktora	8	1	1	6	2	13	−11	4			0–3	0–2	0–1	1–1	—

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Moly-Boronia	6	6	0	0	21	2	+19	18	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and knockout stage.		—	4–1	2–1	4–0
2	Gasandae	6	4	0	2	16	8	+8	12			0–2	—	8–2	1–0
3	Boninbourg	6	0	2	4	7	20	−13	2			0–4	0–2	—	3–3
4	Kaminaria	6	0	2	4	4	18	−14	2			0–5	0–4	1–1	—

Qualified teams

The following nine teams from FCS qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FANA World Cup1
Torlova	Group A winner	30 January 2021	3 (2018, 2019, 2020)
Hansaaria	Group A runner-up	20 February 2021	1 (2020)
Ninelie	Group B winner	6 February 2021	4 (2015, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Jarea	Group B runner-up	6 February 2021	6 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Moly-Boronia	Group D winner	6 February 2021	3 (2018, 2019, 2020)
Sirenforest	Group C winner	13 February 2021	4 (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020)
Taslana	Group C runner-up	13 February 2021	0
Gasandae	Group D runner-up	13 February 2021	0

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

FCS Regional Cup

The 2021 FCS Regional Cup was be the first edition of the FCS Cup, a regional competition between members of the Football Confederation of Sakoda, the competition was hosted in Torlova. The competition served to determine which country would represent FCS in the upcoming 2021 FANA Confederations Cup, set to be hosted in Namimori & Qasentria.

Qualified Countries

Seeded Teams (1 to 4 in the 2021 FCS Qualifications Ranking)

• Torlova
• Sirenforest
• Moly-Boronia
• Ninelie

Unseeded Teams (5 to 8 in the 2021 FCS Qualifications Ranking)

• Jarea
• Hansaaria
• Taslana
• Gasandae

Knock Out Round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	26 April - Estambla
	Torlova	3
					29 April - Gellent
	Jarea	0
					Torlova	2
	26 April - Ankria
					Moly-Boronia	0
	Moly-Boronia	2
									1 May - Estambla
	Taslana	1
									Torlova	2 (1)
	27 April - Itzmir
									Ninelie	2 (3)
	Sirenforest	1
					29 April - Ankria
	Hansaaria	2
					Hansaaria	1
	27 April - Bazdri
					Ninelie	2			Third place
	Ninelie	2
									30 April - Bazdri
	Gasandae	0
									Moly-Boronia	0 (2)
									Hansaaria	0 (3)

See also

• 2021 FANA World Cup
• 2021 FANA World Cup qualification