2015 IFCPF CP Football World Championships

The 2015 IFCPF CP Football World Championships was the world championship for men's national 7-a-side association football teams. IFCPF stands for International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Athletes with a physical disability competed. The Championship took place in the England from 16 to 28 June 2015.

Football CP Football 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 Rio de Janeiro 2016 Paralympic Games.

Qualifying
The following teams are qualified for the tournament:
 * 1 = The Iranian CP football team drew their participation back shortly before the World Cup 

The draw
During the draw, the teams were divided into pots because of rankings. Here, the following groups:
 * 1 = The Iranian CP football team drew their participation back shortly before the World Cup

Squads
The individual teams contact following football gamblers on to: Group A

Group B

Group C

Group D

Venue
The venue to be used for the World Championships were located in Burton-upon-Trent.

Format
The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 16 teams divided among four groups of four, where each group engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. The two highest ranked teams in each group advanced to the knockout stage for the position one to eight, the two lower ranked teams played for the positions nine to 16. 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.

Quarter-finals
Position 9-16

Position 1-8

Semi-finals
Position 13-16

Position 9-12

Position 5-8

Position 1-4

Finals
Position 15-16

Position 13-14

Position 11-12

Position 9-10

Position 7-8

Position 5-6

Position 3-4

Final

Goalscorers

 * 12 goals
 * 🇷🇺 Volodymyr Antonyuk


 * 8 goals
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jack Rutter


 * 7 goals
 * 🇷🇺 Eduard Ramonov
 * 🇨🇦 Trevor Stiles


 * 6 goals
 * 🇧🇷 Jose Carols Monteiro Guimarães
 * 🇮🇪 Dillon Sheridan
 * 🇧🇷 Wanderson Silva de Oliveira


 * 5 goals
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksandr Kuligin


 * 4 goals


 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 James Blackwell
 * 🇺🇦 Artem Krasylnykov
 * 🇷🇺 Dimitrii Pestretsov
 * 🇺🇦 Vitalii Romanchuk
 * 🇧🇷 Fernandes Celso Alves Vieira


 * 3 goals


 * 🇷🇺 Alexei Borkin
 * 🇧🇷 Jan Francisco Brito da Costa
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jake Brown
 * Barry Halloran
 * Martin Hickman
 * Peter Kooij
 * 🇷🇺 Ivan Potekhin
 * 🇻🇪 Jessi Junior Yari Villegas
 * Iljas Visker


 * 2 goals


 * 🇷🇺 Georgiy Albegov
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Harry Barker
 * 🇦🇷 Matias Agustin Bassi
 * 🇨🇦 Sam Charron
 * 🇷🇺 Alexey Chesmin
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Matt Crossen
 * 🇧🇷 Felipe Rafael da Silva Gomes
 * Hugo Manuel da Silva Pinheiro
 * 🇮🇪 Luke Evans
 * 🇦🇷 Matias Emiliano Fernandez
 * 🇺🇸 David Navarro Garza
 * 🇧🇷 Evandro de Oliveira Gomes de Souza
 * Kyle Hannin
 * 🇺🇸 Kevin Tyler Hensley
 * 🇺🇸 Seth David Jahn
 * 🇷🇺 Viacheslav Larionov
 * 🇧🇷 Jonatas Santos Machado
 * 🇮🇪 Gary Messett
 * Jamie Mitchell
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Ollie Nugent
 * Jonathan Paterson
 * Ian Paton
 * Tiago Ribeiro Baptista Ramos
 * Jeroen Saedt
 * 🇷🇺 Aslanbek Sapiev
 * Minne de Vos
 * Jordan Walker


 * 1 goal


 * Darren Aitken
 * 🇺🇸 Adam Kyle Ballou
 * 🇦🇺 David Barber
 * 🇺🇸 Bryce Zachary Boarman
 * Lars Conijn
 * Cormac Birt
 * 🇧🇷 Ubirajara da Silva Magalhães
 * 🇨🇦 Dustin Hodgson
 * 🇺🇦 Edhar Kahramanian
 * David Levy
 * 🇦🇷 Rodrigo Eloy Lugrin
 * 🇻🇪 Richard Alexander Mogollon Melendez
 * 🇦🇷 Mariano Andres Morana
 * 🇷🇺 Lasha Murvanadze
 * 🇮🇪 Eric O'Flaherty
 * 🇯🇵 Shotaro Osawa
 * 🇷🇺 Zaurbek Pagaev
 * 🇦🇺 Christopher Pyne
 * Mark Robertson
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Emyle Rudder
 * Jeroen Schuitert
 * 🇺🇦 Artem Sheremet
 * 🇮🇪 Darragh Snell
 * 🇯🇵 Taisei Taniguchi
 * Tiago Carneiro
 * 🇯🇵 Tetsuya Toda
 * 🇷🇺 Aleksey Tumakov
 * 🇦🇺 James Turner
 * George van Altena
 * Vítor Emanuel Ribeiro Vilarinho
 * Ryan Walker
 * 🇺🇦 Yevhen Zinoviev


 * own goals


 * Barry Halloran
 * 🇺🇸 ??
 * 🇺🇸 ??
 * 🇺🇸 ??