This, the 43rd edition, was the first time that neither Argentina nor Brazil reached the semifinals of a tournament they both had entered. In 1986, CONMEBOL decided to return to having one country host the tournament and to contest it every other year. No use for commercial purposes may be made of such trademarks. Higher number of points obtained in the group matches played among the teams in question. Bolivia, Colombia and Ecuador withdrew from the tournament. The UEFA word, the UEFA logo and all marks related to UEFA competitions, are protected by trademarks and/or copyright of UEFA. Papua New Guinea Once again, Brazil came out victorious after crushing Argentina 30. The Cameroon national football team (French: quipe du Cameroun de football), also known as the Indomitable Lions, represents Cameroon in men's international football.It is controlled by the Fdration Camerounaise de Football, a member of FIFA and its African confederation CAF.. [7] On three occasions (in 1975, 1979, and 1983), the tournament was held in multiple South American countries. The 33-year-old also has an assist. The winners of the quarter-finals matches progress to the semi-finals, where the winners play in the final. He is the all-time leading scorer in the history of the Africa Cup of Nations, with 18 goals, and is Cameroon's all-time leading scorer and third most capped player, with 56 goals in 118 caps. From 1987 until 2001, the event was hosted every two years in rotation by the ten members of the confederation. After eight years of absence, the event resumed in 1975 and officially acquired the name Copa Amrica. The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations top goalscorer is showing no signs of slowing down despite his advancing age. Colombia, Ecuador and Peru withdrew from the tournament. To qualify, a team must finish in one of the qualifying spots or win a play-off. The Africa Cup of Nations referred to as AFCON (French: Coupe d'Afrique des Nations, sometimes referred to as CAN, or TotalEnergies Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship reasons), and sometimes as African Cup of Nations, is the main international men's association football competition in Africa. Bon anniversaire Olivier Giroud Just 3 goals away from becoming France's all-time top scorer! Like Messi, he has scored eight Champions League hat-tricks. [59] On 28 May 2010, UEFA announced that UEFA Euro 2016 would be hosted by France. Before entering the tournament, all teams other than the host nations (which qualify automatically) compete in a qualifying process. Those who finish as runners-up in the vote receive the Silver Ball and Bronze Ball awards as the second and third most outstanding players in the The seeded teams being the host nations, the reigning champions, should they qualify, and those with the best points per game coefficients over the qualifying phase of the tournament and the previous World Cup qualifying. Nine teams participated in the group stages with the defending champions receiving a bye into the semifinals. Scheduled to be in the even-numbered year between FIFA World Cup tournaments, it was originally called the European Nations' Cup, changing to the current name in 1968. [19] The trophy previously had a one- and two-level base[citation needed], and prior to 1979 there was no base at all,[20] like the one used in 1975. [2] From the 2020 edition, the winner competes in the CONMEBOLUEFA Cup of Champions. Few South American teams were willing to travel to Europe for the 1934 World Cup and all North and South American nations except Brazil and Cuba boycotted the 1938 tournament. In the case of a team having hosted one of the two previous competitions and therefore having qualified automatically, only the results from the single most recent qualifying competition are used. Owing to CONMEBOL's somewhat limited number of registered national football federations, countries from other continents are usually invited to participate to make up the 12 teams necessary for the current tournament format. League C contained 16 teams, drawn into four groups of four. The Golden Ball award is presented to the best player at each FIFA World Cup finals, with a shortlist drawn up by the FIFA technical committee (Technical Study Group) and the winner voted for by representatives of the media. Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar AO BR (/stn tndulkr/ (listen); pronounced [stin teulk]; born 24 April 1973) is an Indian former international cricketer who captained the Indian national team.He is regarded as one of the greatest batsmen in the history of cricket.He was a right-handed top-order bastmen in the Indian Cricket Team. their rankings are determined as follows: The knockout stage is a single-elimination tournament in which teams play each other in one-off matches, with penalty shootouts used to decide the winner if a match is still tied after 90 minutes in the quarter-finals and semi-finals, and after extra time in the final. The winner, Samoa qualified for the 2012 OFC Nations Cup. The CAC was 61cm (24in) tall with a weight of 7.1kg (16lb), covered by 24-carat gold. The tournament was contested every four years using this system until 1987. Between 1975 and 1983 it had no fixed host nation, and was held in a home and away fashion. For the 2016 tournament, the expansion to 24 teams means that the teams will be drawn into six groups of four, with the six group winners, six group runners-up and the four best third-placed teams advancing to the round of 16 when it becomes a knockout competition.[77]. The host country was selected from the four finalists after they were determined through qualifying. To obtain an accurate view of the teams' abilities, a ranking is produced. The 1993 Copa Amrica tournament in Ecuador would take its current form. [8], All matches were held at the Lawson Tama Stadium in Honiara.[5]. All-time top cumulative scorer: 1,093 points: Oscar Schmidt (Brazil) 575 points: Lauren Jackson (Australia) All-time top average scorer: The fifth edition was hosted by Tahiti in 2000. Eto'o announced his retirement from international football in August 2014. Required fields are marked *. The Vancouver Canucks are a professional ice hockey team based in Vancouver.They compete in the National Hockey League (NHL) as a member of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference, and play their home games at Rogers Arena. The 1972 and 1980 winning country, West Germany, is written as just Germany. This is calculated by taking the total number of points won by a particular team and dividing it by the number of games played, i.e. The competition was postponed in order to reduce pressure on the public services in affected countries and to provide space in the calendar for the completion of domestic leagues that had been suspended. Sunday 25 SeptemberC1 Faroe Islands 2-1 TrkiyeC1 Luxembourg 1-0 LithuaniaC3 Azerbaijan 3-0 KazakhstanC3 Slovakia 1-1 Belarus, Monday 26 SeptemberC4 Gibraltar 1-2 GeorgiaC4 North Macedonia 0-1 Bulgaria, Tuesday 27 SeptemberC2 Greece 3-1 Northern IrelandC2 Kosovo 5-1 Cyprus, Promoted to Group B: Trkiye, Greece, Kazakhstan, GeorgiaDestined for relegation play-outs: Lithuania, Cyprus, Belarus, Gibraltar. Nigeria international forward Odion Ighalo scored the opening goal to inspire Al Hilal to a thrilling 3-2 win over Al Tai at the Prince Abdul Aziz bin Musaed Stadium in a gameweek eight clash of the Saudi League. Virgil van Dijk scored a late winner against Belgium on Sunday night to secure the Netherlands' spot at next June's Nations League finals.. Chile and Uruguay participated, but this event is not considered official by CONMEBOL. Czechoslovakia beat West Germany in the newly introduced penalty shootout. Bolivia won for the first time when it hosted in 1963, but was defeated in the first game of the 1967 tournament by debutant Venezuela. [3][4] The tournament was then awarded to the Solomon Islands. Bolivia and Paraguay withdrew from the tournament. is the all-time top scorer at the World Cup with 16 goals. Nine referees and nine assistant referees were named for the tournament. Nations 21 23 23 15 16 16 16 16 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 Participating nations. The competition has been The winner and runner-up of each group progress to the next round, where a knockout system is used (the two teams play each other once, the winner progresses), this is used in all subsequent rounds as well. The emblems of CONMEBOL and CONCACAF were also engraved on its body.[22]. The 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals was the final tournament of the 202021 edition of the UEFA Nations League, the second season of the international football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA.The tournament was held in Italy from 6 to 10 October 2021, and was contested by the four group winners of Nations League A. Messi's goal at Maccabi Haifa on Matchday 2 in 2022/23 made him the first player to score in 18 successive editions of the competition, and is the only player to have scored in 16 successive campaigns in Europe's top club competition for the same team. Greece and Georgia extended their perfect records following 3-0 victories but Kazakhstan failed to make it three wins from three as they drew away to Belarus and Slovakia moved to within a point with their success. Georgia finished seven points clear in Group C4 with a 2-1 win in Gibraltar. For this edition of the OFC Nations Cup, there was a qualification tournament for the four lowest ranked teams according to the July 2011 FIFA World Rankings. The tournament was held in Portugal from 5 to 9 June 2019, and was contested by the four group winners of Nations That competition (also attended by Uruguay and Chile) was named "Copa del Centenario" (Centennial Cup). By the early 20th century, football was growing in popularity, and the first international competition held among national teams of the continent occurred in 1910 when Argentina organized an event to commemorate the centenary of the May Revolution. The Tottenham Hotspur striker captains England's national men's side, is the third-highest Premier League scorer of all time and is on track (51) to overhaul Wayne Rooney's record international total. He was the second player to reach 100 Champions League goals (after Cristiano Ronaldo) and has been top scorer (or joint top scorer) in six Champions League seasons, one fewer than Ronaldo has managed. The all-time European Champion Clubs' Cup top scorer, Alfredo Di Stfano, struck 49 goals in just 58 appearances in the competition, a goals-per-game rate that none of the modern greats can match. UEFA Euro 1992 was held in Sweden, and was won by Denmark, who were only in the finals because UEFA did not allow Yugoslavia to participate as some of the states constituting the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia were at war with each other. Group 4: Georgia have been promoted, while Gibraltar are consigned to the relegation play-outs. Feyenoord's Santiago Gimenez and Braga's Vitinha were the top scorers of the 2022/23 UEFA Europa League at the conclusion of the group stage with four goals each in the first six matchdays. Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia withdrew from the tournament. Beginning in 1995, three points have been awarded for a win, one for a draw and none for a loss (before, winners received two points). The team has qualified for the FIFA World Cup eight times, more than any other African team, and Apart from the men's senior A-level team, Denmark competes with a women's national team, and has teams at various youth levels for both men and women, most prominently the under-21 national team.Historically, the A-level team competed in the Olympics until and including the 1988 tournament, whereafter Olympic games count as under-21 national games. Only in 1935 was it possible to dispute a special edition of the event to be officially reinstated in 1939. The Premier League features the elite 20 clubs of English football that battle it out over the course of nine months to either win the title or remain in the division. Until 2016 the championship winners could compete in the following FIFA Confederations Cup, but were not obliged to do so. For UEFA Euro 2020, the group qualifying phase consisted of ten groups; five of six teams and the remainder of five teams each. If teams are even on points at the end of group play, the tied teams would be ranked by:[9]. The first football team in South America, Lima Cricket and Football Club, was established in Peru in 1859, and the Argentine Football Association was founded in 1893. [64] In December 2012, however, UEFA announced that the 2020 tournament would be hosted in several cities in various countries across Europe, with the semi-finals and Final being played in London. [36][37] The Danes beat holders the Netherlands on penalties in the semi-finals,[38] then defeated world champion Germany 20. The most prolific foreign goalscorer in Bundesliga history, 'Lewy' took just 100 games to score 80 UEFA Champions League goals; Messi took 102 games to reach the same mark and Ronaldo 116. In 2019/20, Bayern's Lewandowski ended a run of 12 UEFA Champions League seasons in which either Ronaldo or Messi finished as the UEFA Champions League's top scorer (or joint-top scorer). Apart from the men's senior A-level team, Denmark competes with a women's national team, and has teams at various youth levels for both men and women, most prominently the under-21 national team.Historically, the A-level team competed in the Olympics until and including the 1988 tournament, whereafter Olympic games count as under-21 national games. The United States was invited to every tournament between 1997 and 2007 but frequently turned down the invitation due to scheduling conflicts with Major League Soccer. France beat bids of Turkey (76 in voting in the second voting round) and Italy, which had the fewest votes in the first voting round. The qualification contained the following teams: The qualification tournament was played from 22 to 26 November 2011 in Samoa. Thursday 22 SeptemberC1 Lithuania 1-1 Faroe IslandsC1 Trkiye 3-3 LuxembourgC3 Kazakhstan 2-1 BelarusC3 Slovakia 1-2 Azerbaijan, Friday 23 SeptemberC4 Georgia 2-0 North MacedoniaC4 Bulgaria 5-1 Gibraltar, Saturday 24 SeptemberC2 Northern Ireland 2-1 KosovoC2 Cyprus 1-0 Greece. The 202021 UEFA Nations League was the second season of the UEFA Nations League, an international association football competition involving the men's national teams of the 55 member associations of UEFA. The UEFA Euro 2012 tournament was co-hosted by Poland and Ukraine. The Serie A (Italian pronunciation: [srje a]), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa Campioni d'Italia.It has been operating as a round-robin tournament for over ninety years since the 192930 season. As with most leagues, the points are awarded as three for a win, one for a draw, and none for a loss. [2][3][4] Since the 1990s, teams from North America and Asia have also been invited to compete. [21] This tournament would provide a taste of things to come, as the German side contained many of the key members of the 1974 FIFA World Cup Champions. Argentina, in turn, won the Copa Amrica after 32 long years in 1991 in Chile, thanks to a refreshed squad led by the prolific goalscorer Gabriel Batistuta. He moved to Dortmund midway through that campaign, ending it with ten goals: only Lewandowski, with 15, managed more. The competition was held from September to November 2020 (league phase), October 2021 (Nations League Finals) and March 2022 (relegation play-outs). With two minutes remaining, Hrubesch headed the winner for West Germany from a Karl-Heinz Rummenigge corner. In 1984, CONMEBOL adopted the policy of rotating the right to host the Copa Amrica amongst the ten member confederations. Colombia, the host nation, would go on to win the competition for the first time ever. The qualifying phase begins in the autumn after the preceding FIFA World Cup, almost two years before the finals. He returned to England recently to fire five goals for Manchester United in 23 appearances. Having guided France to their first-ever major international trophy and winning league titles with both Juventus and St Etienne, Platini retired when he was still at the top of his game in 1987. Ronaldo and Messi are the only players to date to score over 100 goals in the competition, and like the remaining players in the all-time European Cup/Champions League top ten, neither featured in the competition when it was still the European Champion Clubs' Cup. During the tournament, media outlets reported that CONMEBOL and CONCACAF were negotiating a merger of the Copa Amrica with the CONCACAF Gold Cup, the latter's continental tournament held every 2 years, with the United States hosting regular tournaments; United States Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati called the report inaccurate, saying that no such discussion had taken place and that a new tournament would have to be established. [73] Since the first tournament it has been awarded to the winning team for them to keep for four years, until the next tournament. [1] The qualifying tournament was to be the football competition at the 2011 Pacific Games in Nouma, New Caledonia. The new silver base of the trophy had to be enlarged to make it stable. Unlike 2010 qualifying, the team that qualified for those playoffs could be different from the one that played in the 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup. 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