IFCPF World Cup

The IFCPF World Cup (formerly known as the IFCPF CP Football World Championships) is the main world competition of CP football.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13]}

History

The blind football has several major competitions. These include the IFCPF CP Football World Championships, former the CPISRA Football-7-a-Side World Championships. The first CPISRA World Championships took place in Denmark in 1982, four years after the first international competition for the sport took place in Scotland at the Cerebral Palsy International Games.

7-a-side football was also played at the Paralympic Games, making its debut at the 1984 Summer Paralympics.^[14] It was dropped from the Paralympic program for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

Names

• 1990–2011: CPISRA World Championship
• 2015–2017: IFCPF World Championship
• 2019–2022: IFCPF World Cup^[15]

Men's results

Year	Host		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams		Ref.
CPISRA tournaments
1990 Details	Assen (WC)	Netherlands	5–0	Ireland	Belgium	no information available		5	[16][17]
1994 Details	Dublin (WC)	Netherlands	2–0	Ireland	Belgium		Spain		[16][17]
1998 Details	Rio de Janeiro (WC)	Russia	3–1	Ukraine	Brazil	3–2	Spain	11	[16]
2003 Details	Buenos Aires (WC)	Ukraine	3–1	Brazil	Russia	2–1	Argentina		[16]
2007 Details	Rio de Janeiro (WC)	Russia	2–1	Iran	Ukraine	2–0	Brazil	16	[16][18]
2011 Details	Assen, Emmen, Hoogeveen (WC)	Russia	6–1	Iran	Ukraine	8–3	Brazil	16	[16][19]
IFCPF tournaments
2015 Details	Burton-upon-Trent (WC)	Russia	1–0	Ukraine	Brazil	6–0	Netherlands	16	[16][20]
2017 Details	San Luis (WC)	Ukraine	1–0	Iran	Russia	2–0	England	16	[21]
2019 Details	Seville (Cup)	Russia	3–1	Ukraine	Brazil	4–1	England	16	[22]
2022 Details	Salou (Cup)	Ukraine	1–0	Iran	Brazil	2–0	United States	15	[23][24]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia (RUS)	5	0	2	7
2	Ukraine (UKR)	3	3	2	8
3	Netherlands (NED)	2	0	0	2
4	Iran (IRI)	0	4	0	4
5	Ireland (IRL)	0	2	0	2
6	Brazil (BRA)	0	1	4	5
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	2	2
Totals (7 entries)		10	10	10	30

International Championships

Year	Host		Winner	Score	Runner-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams		Ref.
2009 Details	Arnhem (IC)		Ukraine	0–0 (a.e.t.) (9–8 p.)	Russia		Iran	1–0	Brazil		12		[25]
2013 Details	Sant Cugat del Vallès (Cup)		Ukraine	1–0	Brazil		Russia	4–0	Ireland		16		[26]

Level 2 World Championship

The event was held from 27 September to 3 October 2022 in Olbia, Italy.

Ranking:

• 1st Colombia
• 2nd Scotland
• 3rd Japan
• 4th Chile
• 5th Italy
• 6th Egypt
• 7th South Korea
• 8th Denmark

See also

• IFCPF Women's World Cup

References

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