2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships

The 2014 CPISRA Football 7-a-side European Championships was the European championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. CPISRA stands for Cerebral Palsy International Sports & Recreation Association. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in Portugal from 23 July to 2 August 2014.

Football 7-a-side was played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications were that 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 2015 IFCPF CP Football World Championships.

The draw
During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. Here, the following groups:

Squads
Group A

Group B

Group C

Venues
The venues to be used for the European Championships were located in Maia.

Format
The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 11 teams divided among two groups of four and one group of three, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group and the best two third-placed of the groups advanced to the knockout stage for the position one to eight. The other teams played for the positions nine to eleven. 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. 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 C
able of third-placed teams from each group

To compare the third-placed teams, only the games counted against the first-placed and second placed team, because in group C were only three teams. In this table, the two best teams rose to the quarter-finals, the third-placed nation must play the games at the 9th to 11th place.

Thus was laid on 25 July that the teams from Northern Ireland and Portugal were promoted to the quarter-finals, the team from Finland had to play for the 9th to 11th place.

Semi-finals
Position 5-8

Position 1-4

Finals
Position 9-11

Position 7-8

Position 5-6


 * 1 = Match was not played due to bad weather conditions

Position 3-4

Final

Goalscorers

 * 8 goals
 * Iljas Visker


 * 7 goals
 * Peter Kooij


 * 5 goals


 * 🇮🇪 Tomiwa Badun
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Michael Barker
 * 🇷🇺 Eduard Ramonov
 * 🇮🇪 Dillon Sheridan


 * 4 goals


 * Lars Conijn
 * 🇮🇪 Luke Evans
 * Barry Halloran
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Kuligin
 * 🇮🇪 Gary Messett
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jack Rutter
 * Anton Saedt


 * 3 goals


 * 🇷🇺 Alexey Chesmin
 * 🇺🇦 Oleksandr Devlysh
 * 🇩🇪 Conny Fritsch
 * Martin Hickman
 * Mitch Lebon
 * Stephan Lokhoff
 * Laurie McGinley
 * Emil Møller
 * 🇷🇺 Lasha Murvanadze
 * Jonathan Paterson
 * 🇺🇦 Vitalii Romanchuk
 * Victor Sørensen
 * 🇮🇪 Aaron Tier
 * Vítor Vilarinho
 * Ryan Walker
 * 🇩🇪 Kevin Wermeester


 * 2 goals


 * 🇺🇦 Volodymyr Antonyuk
 * 🇮🇪 Darragh Byrne
 * David Levy
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 George Fletcher
 * 🇩🇪 Philipp Freudinger
 * Peter Hansen
 * 🇮🇪 Podge Leacy
 * 🇺🇦 Dmytro Molodtsov
 * 🇮🇪 Eric O'Flaherty
 * Tiago Ramos
 * Hendrik Rodenburg


 * 1 goal


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Blackwell
 * Stefan Boersma
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jake Brown
 * Thomas Brown
 * Christian Canning
 * Tiago Carneiro
 * 🇮🇪 Peter Cotter
 * Daan Dikken
 * Myron Gebbink
 * Blair Glynn
 * 🇩🇪 Frederic Heinze
 * 🇫🇮 Janne Helander
 * 🇺🇦 Dmytro Hetman
 * 🇫🇮 Mikael Jukarainen
 * 🇷🇺 Viacheslav Larionov
 * 🇮🇪 Joseph Markey
 * Joey Mense
 * Jamie Mitchell
 * 🇮🇪 Ryan Nolan
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Oliver Nugent
 * 🇷🇺 Dmitrii Pestritsov
 * 🇺🇦 Denys Ponomarov
 * Mark Robertson
 * Rui Rocha
 * Andreas Simonsen
 * Glenn Sambleben
 * 🇺🇦 Vitaliy Trushev
 * Jordan Walker
 * 🇺🇦 Yevhen Zinoviev


 * own goals


 * David Levy
 * Ryan Walker