User:Underground82/Welcome International Series (Edition I)

This was the first season of the Welcome International Series, a friendly competition which involves clubs and managers which are in low Hattrick series of their nations. The competition took place in England and started on 11 February 2014. The home team Countertenors Utd were eliminated in the group stage. Eagle 07 from Albania won the title after the great final victory (3-1) against the Welcome International Cup holders, AC Spondinig from Malaysia.

Teams
24 clubs from 5 confederations take part in this competition. Teams are divided in four pots, the organizer and the team of the host nation have been inserted in Pot 1, together with the four clubs which have the most number of fans in Hattrick. Clubs which are in Pot 2-3-4 have been divided according to their number of fans. In Pot 5 we eventually find the clubs that have been lastly registered in the competition (which has been enlarged from 24 to 30 participating clubs).

Draw rules

 * 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Countertenors Utd will be placed in Group A;
 * 🇮🇹 ZB Hannover 96 will be placed in Group B;
 * The 6 clubs from South America have to be in six different groups;
 * The other 4 non-european clubs have to be in four different groups;
 * 2 groups will have three European clubs, 4 groups will have two European clubs.

Group stage
The first 2 teams of a group advance to the knockout round, together with the best 4 teams in group-position 3.