Loading AI tools
The 2019 Valentin Granatkin Memorial Cup is its 19th edition after dissolution of the USSR.[1] The tournament was held at Saint Petersburg, Russia from 4 to 14 June 2019, being organised by Russian Football Union.[2][3]
| Tournament details | |
|---|---|
| Host country | Russia |
| City | Saint Petersburg |
| Dates | 4 to 14 June 2019 |
| Teams | 12 (from 3 confederations) |
| Venue(s) | 3 (in 1 host city) |
| Tournament statistics | |
| Matches played | 24 |
| Goals scored | 65 (2.71 per match) |
| Top scorer(s) |  Kirill Kosarev(4 goals) |
← 2018 2020 →
All statistics correct as of 12 June 2019. | |
Total of 12 National U-18 teams from three different confederations namely AFC, CONMEBOL and UEFA, participated in this edition of the tournament.[4][5][6] The teams are further divided in three different groups, where Group A have Bulgaria, India, Moldova and host Russia, Group B have Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Greece and Group C have Argentina, Iran, Armenia and second team of host Russia as Russia 2.[7][8][5]
- All times are Further-eastern European Time (UTC+03:00).
The participants will play each other in each group and the winners of each group and the best of the teams finished second in each group will play for the semifinals. The remaining teams will play for 5–8 places.[5]
Group A
Group B
| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Turkey |
3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | +6 | 7 |
 Greece |
3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 5 |
 Tajikistan |
3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 10 | −5 | 2 |
 Kyrgyzstan |
3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | −4 | 1 |
| Turkey | 1–0 | Kyrgyzstan |
|---|---|---|
Arslantas  40' |
RFS TFF |
| Tajikistan | 1–1 | Kyrgyzstan |
|---|---|---|
| Kamolov 90+3' |
FFT RFS | Shigaibaev 25' |
Group C
Places 9–12
| Kyrgyzstan | 1–1 |  India |
|---|---|---|
| Shigaibaev 88' |
RFS AIFF | Mishra 75' |
| Penalties | ||
Artykbaev  Kanybekov Rusakov |
3–1 | Rohit Danu H.Singh  Sailo J.Singh |
| Tajikistan | 0–3 |  Armenia |
|---|---|---|
| RFS FFA | Alaverdyan 35' Grigoryan 45'Kolozyan 53' |
11th Place
| India | 0–1 | Tajikistan |
|---|---|---|
| AIFF RFS | Panzhiev 39' |
9th Place
| Kyrgyzstan | 0–3 | Armenia |
|---|---|---|
| RFS | Petrosyan 21', 50' Avetisyan 23' |
Places 5–8
7th Place
5th Place
Roshchino Arena, Saint Petersburg
Semifinals
Referee: Sergey Kulikov (Russia)
Third place
Final
| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Argentina |
5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 3 | +8 | 15 |
| 2 | Russia |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 10 |
| 3 | Turkey |
5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 4 | +6 | 10 |
| 4 | Russia 2 |
5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 8 | 0 | 7 |
| 5 | Greece |
5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 11 | 5 | +6 | 11 |
| 6 |  Iran |
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 6 |
| 7 |  Bulgaria |
5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | −5 | 3 |
| 8 |  Moldova |
5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | −1 | 5 |
| 9 | Armenia |
5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| 10 | Kyrgyzstan |
5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | +3 | 2 |
| 11 | Tajikistan |
5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 13 | −7 | 5 |
| 12 | India |
5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 2 |
Source: Granatkin
There were 69 goals scored in 26 matches, for an average of 2.65 goals per match.
4 goals
3 goals
Panagiotis Tzimas
Ali Sobhani
Nikita Iosifov
2 goals
Franco Orozco- Matías Palacios
- Tomas Leonardo Lecanda
Grenik Petrosyan- Georgios Vrakas
Akash Mishra- Aria Barzegar
Emir Shigaibaev- Danila Prokhin
Rustam Soirov
Muhammet Arslantas- Oğuzhan Akgün
1 goal
- Oscar Exequiel Zeballos
- Matías Godoy
- Cristian Nicholas Medina
- Lautaro Ezequiel Cano
- Narek Alaverdyan
- Narek Grigoryan
- Aram Kolozyan
- Patvakan Avetisyan
- Konstantinos Thymianis
- Nikolaos Michelis
- Ioannis Tsakiris
- Theodoros Pournaras
- Ioannis Fakkis
- Rohit Danu
- Ahmad Jalali
- Reza Mohammad Moharrami
- Ryskeldi Artykbaev
Dan Pușcaș- Valeriu Gaiu
- Ilie Ghiderman
- Denis Faizullin
- Maksim Petrov
- Marat Apshatsev
- Ilya Petukhov
- Danil Pelikh
- Sharifbek Rahmatov
- Islom Zairov
- Amadoni Kamolov
- Ozodbek Panzhiev
- Ilkay İşler
- Burak Yasin Yeşilay
1 own goal
- Muhammed Rafi (against Bulgaria)
Wikiwand in your browser!
Seamless Wikipedia browsing. On steroids.
Every time you click a link to Wikipedia, Wiktionary or Wikiquote in your browser's search results, it will show the modern Wikiwand interface.
Wikiwand extension is a five stars, simple, with minimum permission required to keep your browsing private, safe and transparent.
