Match Schedule
The Homeless World Cup is a street soccer event, which is fast and entertaining. Each match, officiated by a referee, lasts for 14 minutes, that’s 7 minutes each way with a one minute break for half –time.
The standard of the players and the teams vary greatly. The policy of the Homeless World Cup is to be as inclusive as possible whilst keeping the true magic of competitive sport alive.
Different qualifying or elimination stages are played throughout the week so that everyone ends up playing for a cup no matter what the ability of the team is. The better teams play for the top trophy, next best for the second trophy and so on. All players receive a medal.
PRELIMINARY GROUP STAGE
48 nations One goal. At this opening preliminary group stage teams are drawn into 12 groups, 4 teams per group. Each team plays each other once.
POOL STAGE
There are two pools – Pool 1 and Pool 2.
All teams finishing 1st and 2nd in the Preliminary Group Stage move through to Pool 1. Teams who finished first in the preliminary group stage play teams who finished second.
Teams who finished 3rd and 4th in the Preliminary Group Stage move through to Pool 2. Teams who finished third in the preliminary group stage will play teams who finished fourth.
SECTION STAGE
It’s the third playing day and now there are 4 sections of 12 teams.
Section 1 is made up of all the winners from Pool 1
Section 2 is made up of all the losers from Pool1
Section 3 is made up of all the winners from Pool 2
Section 4 is made up of all the losers from Pool 2
Each team plays one game.
GROUP STAGE
Here there are 8 groups of 6 teams. All teams will play each other once.
Group 1 is made up of winners from Section 1
Group 2 is made up of losers from Section 1
Group 3 is made up of winners from Section 2
Group 4 is made up of losers from Section2
Group 5 is made up of winners from Section 3
Group 6 is made up of losers from Section 3
Group 7 is made up of winners from Section 4
Group 8 is made up of losers from Section 4
TROPHY STAGE
Teams compete for six trophies and position in a knock out competition, 8 teams per trophy, and each should the same or similar standard.
The Homeless World Cup Trophies
The Homeless World Cup
All teams from group 1 plus the top two teams from group 2
The Copenhagen City Trophy
The bottom 4 teams from group 2 plus the top 4 teams from Group 3
The Cape Town Trophy
The bottom 2 teams from Group 3 plus all of Group 4
The Huis Forbis Trophy
All teams from Group 5 plus the top 2 teams from Group 6
The Ombold Trophy
The bottom 4 teams from group 6 plus the top 4 of Group 7
The INSP Trophy
The bottom 2 teams from group 7 and all of group 8
Trophies are awarded for the Best Fair Play team, the Best Mixed Team, Best Female Player, Best Male Player and the Best Newcomer.
