User:Eldragon21/fifa13

Entrants & Format Changes
All nations were chosen in accordance to FIFA's world rankings for August 2012. 🇨🇦 canada was chosen to host the final tournament with BC Place as the single venue. Final tournament will consist of 16 nations. Two nations are automatically qualified due to FIFA 13 lacking nations from the North America Zone.

Africa Zone Nations will play each other twice with 1st and 2nd place qualifying for Canada 13.
 * 🇨🇲 cameroon
 * 🇨🇮 côte d'ivoire
 * 🇪🇬 egypt

Asia & Oceania Zone Nations will play each other twice with 1st and 2nd place qualifying for Canada 13.
 * 🇦🇺 australia
 * 🇮🇳 india
 * 🇳🇿 new zealand
 * 🇰🇷 south korea

Europe Zone A drawing will be held to determine four groups of four nations each. Groups will consist of one nation from each Pot. After groups have been determined, nations will play each other twice with 1st and 2nd place from each group qualifying for Canada 13.
 * Pot A
 * 🇪🇸 spain
 * 🇩🇪 germany
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 england
 * Pot B
 * 🇮🇹 italy
 * 🇹🇷 turkey ( was replaced due to their omission from FIFA 13)
 * Pot C
 * 🇷🇺 russia
 * 🇫🇷 france
 * 🇸🇪 sweden
 * Pot D
 * 🇨🇿 czech republic
 * 🇳🇴 norway
 * 🇮🇪 ireland
 * Pot D
 * 🇨🇿 czech republic
 * 🇳🇴 norway
 * 🇮🇪 ireland
 * 🇮🇪 ireland

North America Zone Nations from this zone are automatically qualified for Canada 13.
 * 🇲🇽 mexico
 * 🇺🇸 united states

South America Zone A drawing will be held to determine two groups of four nations each. Groups will consist of one nation from each Pot. After groups have been determined, nations will play each other twice with 1st place from each group qualifying for Canada 13.
 * Pot A
 * 🇦🇷 argentina
 * Pot B
 * 🇧🇷 brazil
 * Pot C
 * 🇪🇨 ecuador
 * 🇨🇴 colombia
 * Pot D
 * 🇵🇪 peru
 * Pot D
 * 🇵🇪 peru
 * 🇵🇪 peru

Tie-breaking Criteria
If nations are level on points, the following steps are used to determine ranks;
 * Head to head result(s)
 * Overall goal difference

If multiple nations are level on points, the following steps are used to determine ranks;
 * Overall goal difference
 * Goal difference of matches between tied nations

Group Stage
The group winners and runner-ups advance to the knockout stage. The ranking of each team in each group will be determined as follows: If two or more teams are equal on the basis of the above three criteria, their rankings will be determined as follows:
 * 1) points obtained in all group matches;
 * 2) goal difference in all group matches;
 * 3) number of goals scored in all group matches;
 * 1) points obtained in the group matches between the teams concerned;
 * 2) goal difference in the group matches between the teams concerned;
 * 3) number of goals scored in the group matches between the teams concerned;
 * 4) play-off match.

Goalscorers

 * 6 goals
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 W. Rooney


 * 4 goals
 * 🇫🇷 F. Ribéry


 * 3 goals
 * 🇧🇷 Fred
 * R. van der Vaart
 * 🇺🇸 L. Donovan


 * 2 goals
 * 🇧🇷 Neymar
 * 🇨🇲 S. Eto'o
 * 🇨🇮 S. Kalou
 * 🇫🇷 K. Benzema
 * 🇫🇷 Y. Cabaye
 * 🇫🇷 S. Nasri
 * 🇫🇷 D. Payet
 * A. Robben
 * H. Almeida
 * C. Ronaldo
 * 🇺🇸 J. Altidore


 * 1 goal


 * 🇦🇺 T. Cahill
 * 🇦🇺 T. Oar
 * 🇦🇺 L. Wilkshire
 * 🇧🇷 L. Gustavo
 * 🇧🇷 Oscar
 * 🇨🇲 V. Aboubakar
 * 🇨🇲 A. Emana
 * 🇨🇲 S. Mbia
 * A. Sánchez
 * 🇨🇿 L. Kozák
 * 🇨🇿 D. Lafata
 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 A. Cole


 * 🇫🇷 G. Clichy
 * 🇫🇷 M. Debuchy
 * 🇫🇷 M. Valbuena
 * 🇮🇹 A. Barzagli
 * 🇮🇹 S. El Shaarawy
 * 🇮🇹 C. Marchisio
 * S. de Vrij
 * R. van Persie
 * Danny
 * J. Moutinho
 * 🇰🇷 Kim Shin-Wook
 * 🇰🇷 Lee Keun-Ho


 * 🇰🇷 Son Heung-Min
 * 🇪🇸 R. Soldado
 * 🇪🇸 D. Villa
 * 🇪🇸 Xavi
 * 🇸🇪 J. Elmander
 * 🇸🇪 O. Toivonen
 * 🇺🇸 C. Dempsey
 * 🇺🇸 E. Johnson
 * 🇺🇸 J. Jones