2021 UEFA Regions' Cup

The 2021 UEFA Regions' Cup was originally to be held as the 12th edition of the UEFA Regions' Cup, a football competition for amateur teams in Europe organized by UEFA, before being cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[1]

2021 UEFA Regions' Cup

Tournament details
Dates	Cancelled[1]
Teams	Final tournament: 8 Total: 36 (from 36 associations)
← 2019 2023 →

The final tournament of this edition would originally be held in June 2021, with the qualifying rounds originally taking place in 2020. However, on 17 June 2020, UEFA announced that the tournament had been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[2][3] Lower Silesia from Poland were the title holders.^[4]

Teams

A total of 36 teams entered the tournament.^[5] Each of the 55 UEFA member associations could enter a regional amateur representative team which qualified through a national qualifying competition, or when applicable, their national amateur representative team.

Associations were ranked according to their UEFA coefficients, computed based on results of the last three seasons (2015, 2017, 2019), to decide on the round their teams entered and their seeding pots in the preliminary and intermediate round draws. The top 28 associations entered the intermediate round, while the bottom 8 associations (ranked 29–36) entered the preliminary round.^[6]

The draws for the preliminary and intermediate rounds was held on 3 December 2019, 14:00 CET (UTC+1), at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. The mechanism of the draws for each round was as follows:^[5]

• In the preliminary round, the eight teams were drawn into two groups of four without any seeding.
• In the intermediate round, the 32 teams were drawn into eight groups of four. Each group contained one team from Pot A, one team from Pot B, one team from Pot C, and either one team from Pot D or one of the four teams which advanced from the preliminary round (whose identity was not known at the time of the draw):
  • Preliminary round Group A winner would be assigned to Group 1.
  • Preliminary round Group B winner would be assigned to Group 2.
  • Preliminary round Group A runner-up would be assigned to Group 3.
  • Preliminary round Group B runner-up would be assigned to Group 4.
  • The four teams from Pot D would be drawn to Groups 5–8.

Based on the decisions taken by the UEFA Emergency Panel, teams from Russia and Ukraine could not be drawn in the same group.

The hosts for each group in the preliminary and intermediate rounds would be selected after the draw.

Qualified teams for 2021 UEFA Regions' Cup

Entry round	Rank	Association	Team	Qualifying competition	Coeff.[6]	Pot
Intermediate round	1	Turkey			14.333	A
	2	Croatia			14.000
	3	Republic of Ireland			12.667
	4	Poland	Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship	National Final Tournament[7]	12.333
	5	Germany			12.333
	6	Czech Republic			12.333
	7	Spain	Galicia	2019–20 Spanish stage of the UEFA Regions' Cup[8]	12.000
	8	Russia			11.667
	9	France			10.667	B
	10	Portugal			10.333
	11	Ukraine			10.000
	12	Hungary			9.333
	13	Italy			9.000
	14	Slovakia			8.667
	15	Bulgaria			8.000
	16	Northern Ireland			8.000
	17	Bosnia and Herzegovina			8.000	C
	18	Switzerland			7.667
	19	Serbia			7.667
	20	England			6.667
	21	Lithuania			5.833
	22	Israel			5.833
	23	Romania			5.000
	24	Wales			5.000
	25	Finland			5.000	D
	26	San Marino	San Marino	National amateur team	4.667
	27	Slovenia			4.333
	28	Moldova			4.333
Preliminary round	29	Malta	Gozo	Regional amateur team	4.333	1
	30	North Macedonia			4.167
	31	Sweden			4.000
	32	Belarus			3.333
	33	Azerbaijan			3.000
	34	Kazakhstan			2.000
	35	Estonia	Saue JK	2018 Estonian Small Cup[9]	1.000
	36	Georgia			0.333

Associations which did not enter

Albania	Andorra	Armenia	Austria	Belgium
Cyprus	Denmark	Faroe Islands	Gibraltar	Greece
Iceland	Kosovo	Latvia	Liechtenstein	Luxembourg
Montenegro	Netherlands	Norway	Scotland

Format

In the preliminary round and intermediate round, each group is played as a round-robin mini-tournament at one of the teams selected as hosts after the draw.

In the final tournament, the eight qualified teams play a group stage (two groups of four) followed by the final between the group winners, at a host selected by UEFA from one of the teams.

Preliminary round

The winners and runners-up of each group advance to the intermediate round to join the 28 teams which receive byes. The preliminary round was originally to be played by 2 August 2020, but was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic before being cancelled.

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Intermediate round
2	Saue JK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3 (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Team 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Team 1	Cancelled	Team 4
	Report

21 July 2020 (2020-07-21)

Team 3	Cancelled	Saue JK
	Report

21 July 2020 (2020-07-21)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3
	Report

24 July 2020 (2020-07-24)

Saue JK	Cancelled	Team 4
	Report

24 July 2020 (2020-07-24)

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Saue JK	Cancelled	Team 1
	Report

27 July 2020 (2020-07-27)

Team 4	Cancelled	Team 3
	Report

27 July 2020 (2020-07-27)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Intermediate round
2	Gozo (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Team 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Team 1	Cancelled	Team 4
	Report

24 May 2020 (2020-05-24)

Team 3	Cancelled	Gozo
	Report

24 May 2020 (2020-05-24)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3
	Report

27 May 2020 (2020-05-27)

Gozo	Cancelled	Team 4
	Report

27 May 2020 (2020-05-27)

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Gozo	Cancelled	Team 1
	Report

30 May 2020 (2020-05-30)

Team 4	Cancelled	Team 3
	Report

30 May 2020 (2020-05-30)

Intermediate round

The winners of each group advance to the final tournament. The intermediate round was originally to be played by 13 December 2020.

Times up to 24 October 2020 are CEST (UTC+2), thereafter times are CET (UTC+1), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group 1

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3 (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Preliminary round Group A winner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Team 1	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group A winner

23 September 2020 (2020-09-23)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

23 September 2020 (2020-09-23)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3

26 September 2020 (2020-09-26)

Team 2	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group A winner

26 September 2020 (2020-09-26)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Team 1

29 September 2020 (2020-09-29)

Preliminary round Group A winner	Cancelled	Team 3

29 September 2020 (2020-09-29)

Group 2

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2 (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Preliminary round Group B winner	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Team 1	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group B winner

9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

9 October 2020 (2020-10-09)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3

12 October 2020 (2020-10-12)

Team 2	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group B winner

12 October 2020 (2020-10-12)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Team 1

15 October 2020 (2020-10-15)

Preliminary round Group B winner	Cancelled	Team 3

15 October 2020 (2020-10-15)

Group 3

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	CFCB	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2 (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Preliminary round Group A runner-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Team 1	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group A runner-up

22 September 2020 (2020-09-22)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

22 September 2020 (2020-09-22)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3

25 September 2020 (2020-09-25)

Team 2	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group A runner-up

25 September 2020 (2020-09-25)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Team 1

28 September 2020 (2020-09-28)

Preliminary round Group A runner-up	Cancelled	Team 3

28 September 2020 (2020-09-28)

Group 4

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Galicia	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Preliminary round Group B runner-up	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Galicia	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group B runner-up

2020 (2020)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

2020 (2020)

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Galicia	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Team 2	Cancelled	Preliminary round Group B runner-up

2020 (2020)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Galicia

2020 (2020)

Preliminary round Group B runner-up	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Group 5

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	San Marino (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Team 1	Cancelled	San Marino

2020 (2020)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

2020 (2020)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Team 2	Cancelled	San Marino

2020 (2020)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Team 1

2020 (2020)

San Marino	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Group 6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1 (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Team 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Team 1	Cancelled	Team 4

2020 (2020)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

2020 (2020)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Team 2	Cancelled	Team 4

2020 (2020)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Team 1

2020 (2020)

Team 4	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Group 7

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3 (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Team 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship	Cancelled	Team 4

2020 (2020)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

2020 (2020)

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Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Team 2	Cancelled	Team 4

2020 (2020)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship

2020 (2020)

Team 4	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Group 8

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final tournament
2	Team 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Team 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

Team 1	Cancelled	Team 4

2020 (2020)

Team 3	Cancelled	Team 2

2020 (2020)

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Team 1	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Team 2	Cancelled	Team 4

2020 (2020)

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Team 2	Cancelled	Team 1

2020 (2020)

Team 4	Cancelled	Team 3

2020 (2020)

Final tournament

In principle, the final tournament would originally take place in the last two weeks of June 2021.

Venues

The hosts of the final tournament would originally be selected by UEFA from the eight qualified teams.

Qualified teams

The following eight teams qualify for the final tournament.

Team	Method of qualification	Date of qualification
TBD	Intermediate round Group 1 winners	29 September 2020 (or 26 September 2020)
TBD	Intermediate round Group 2 winners	15 October 2020 (or 12 October 2020)
TBD	Intermediate round Group 3 winners	28 September 2020 (or 25 September 2020)
TBD	Intermediate round Group 4 winners	2020
TBD	Intermediate round Group 5 winners	2020
TBD	Intermediate round Group 6 winners	2020
TBD	Intermediate round Group 7 winners	2020
TBD	Intermediate round Group 8 winners	2020

Final draw

The draw for the final tournament would originally be held in early 2021.

Group stage

The winners of each group advance to the final, while the runners-up of each group receive bronze medals.

Times are CEST (UTC+2), as listed by UEFA (local times, if different, are in parentheses).

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	A1 (H)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final
2	A2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Bronze medal
3	A3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	A4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers
(H) Hosts

A1	Cancelled	A4

June 2021 (2021-06)

A3	Cancelled	A2

June 2021 (2021-06)

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A1	Cancelled	A3

June 2021 (2021-06)

A2	Cancelled	A4

June 2021 (2021-06)

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A2	Cancelled	A1

June 2021 (2021-06)

A4	Cancelled	A3

June 2021 (2021-06)

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	B1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Final
2	B2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Bronze medal
3	B3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	B4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Source: UEFA
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

B1	Cancelled	B4

June 2021 (2021-06)

B3	Cancelled	B2

June 2021 (2021-06)

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B1	Cancelled	B3

June 2021 (2021-06)

B2	Cancelled	B4

June 2021 (2021-06)

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B2	Cancelled	B1

June 2021 (2021-06)

B4	Cancelled	B3

June 2021 (2021-06)

Final

In the final, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.

Winner Group A	Cancelled	Winner Group B

June 2021 (2021-06)

References

1. "2020/21 Regions' Cup cancelled". UEFA.com. 3 December 2019. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
2. "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
3. "Updated UEFA competitions calendar". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2020.
4. "What is the UEFA Regions' Cup?". UEFA.com. 26 June 2019.
5. "2020/21 UEFA Regions' Cup entries". UEFA.com. 14 October 2019.
6. "2020/21 UEFA Regions' Cup qualifying draw coefficients" (PDF). UEFA.com.
7. "Rozlosowano Puchar Regionów". www.90minut.pl (in Polish).
8. "CRÓNICA | Galicia será el representante español en la Copa de las Regiones UEFA (2-0)" (in Spanish). Royal Spanish Football Federation. 11 March 2020.
9. "Eesti sai teada vastased Regions' Cupi võistlusel". Estonian Football Association. 5 December 2019.

External links

• Official website
• Regions' Cup Matches: 2020–21, UEFA.com