User:Underground82/2014 Welcome International Cup (summer)

The 2014 Welcome International Cup (summer edition) is the second edition of the Club World Cup organized for Hattrick-rookies and HT-managers who took part in the previous edition. The competition will start on 22 May 2014, and it unofficially took place in Greece. The home team is Slowmotion, their manager is Takis13 and they were eliminated in group stage.

The organizer of the tournament is Marquinho82, the manager of FC Green Arrow: they were also the title holders, even if the team was called AC Spondinig in the first edition. They were defeated by the brazilian team, Hermes FC, in the quarter-finals, after penalties. The final will be played on 26 June 2014 in Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in Piraeus, that in real life hosts the matches of Olympiakos FC.

Teams
16 teams of 5 confederations take part in this competition.

UEFA teams:
 * Slowmotion (host)
 * 🇮🇹 ZB Hannover 96 (2nd place in 2013-14 winter edition)
 * 🇮🇹 A.C. Fa (4th place 2013-14 winter edition)
 * 🇩🇪 Wiesengrund
 * 🇱🇺 The Yellow Red FC Malines
 * 🇦🇲 BVB South Yerevan

AFC teams:
 * 🇲🇾 FC Green Arrow (title holder)
 * 🇮🇷 Nedaja (3rd place in 2013-14 winter edition)
 * 🇯🇵 FC Suzuki Powa

CAF teams:
 * 🇰🇪 Werder Revenge
 * 🇩🇿 MO Constantine

CONMEBOL teams:
 * 🇧🇷 Marechal Hermes FC
 * Pueblo Victoria FC

CONCACAF teams:
 * 🇬🇹 El Guaro 2013
 * 🇩🇴 Titanic FC

OFC teams:
 * 🇦🇺 Mighty Monsters FC

Seeding
The draw for the tournament took place on 8 May 2014 in Athens. The 16 teams were divided in into four seeding pots, based on their results in the previous edition, their confederations and their national league divisions (for UEFA teams). The two Italian teams could not be paired in the same group.

Venues
Great real stadiums will be used for this competition, except for Bazelo Arena that is an HT-stadium. The team Slowmotion will play in its own stadium the three matches of the group stage.