User:Foghe/2022 Mundialito

The 2030 Mundialito is an association football tournament that will take place in March 2030, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the FIFA World Cup, and to serve as a warm-up to the following quadrennial tournament, to be held in June and July of the same year.

The competition, which follows the 1980 edition—celebrating the 50th anniversary—will face the eight FIFA World Cup winners of its history, spanning 100 years, from 1930 to 2030. In total, in the tournament will partecipate a record number of 23 titles, from the first of Uruguay to the last of France.

Participation
The eight partecipating teams are the nations that x|have won at least one time the FIFA World Cup, since its inauguration in 1930. The most recent champions are France, while the farest team in time to have won the competition are Uruguay, having triumphed for the second time in the 1950 edition.

Venues


All matches will take place in Montevideo, Uruguay. Two stadiums will be used: Estadio Centenario and Estadio Campeón del Siglo.

The Estadio Centenario was purposely built for the 1930 FIFA World Cup, and has hosted the 1930 final and all the matches of the 1980 Mundialito. The Estadio Campeón del Siglo opened in 2016, and it is, together with the Estadio Centenario, on the list of potential hosts for the 2030 FIFA World Cup, to which Uruguay has presented a bid.

Draw
The teams will be subdivided in two pots: the first will cointain the three American teams and the second the five European teams.

The eight teams will be divided in two groups, each composed of four teams, with the host automatically inserted in group A. No group will contain more than three European teams or more than two American teams. The winners of each group will advance to the final, the runners-up to the third place play-off, the thirds to the fifth place play-off, and the fourth to the seventh place play-off.

For television rights reasons, all the group stage matches of Argentina and Brazil will be played in the evening slot of 21:00 UTC+1 (17:00 UTC–3), and not in the afternoon slot of 18:00 UTC+1 (14:00 UTC–3). Hence it will not be possible to draw the two teams together in the same group.

Tiebreakers
The ranking of teams in the group stage is 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;
 * 4) Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 5) Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 6) Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 7) Drawing of lots.

Group A
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Group B
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Seventh place play-off
The two fourth placed teams of each group are qualified for the seventh place play-off.

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Fifth place play-off
The two third placed of each group are qualified for the fifth place play-off.

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Third place play-off
The two runners-up of each group are qualified for the third place play-off.

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Final
The two winners of each group are qualified for the final of the competition.

Retrospective table

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