2020 IAFF World Cup

2020 IAFF World Cup
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Tournament details
Host nation	Kavagrad
Slogan	The Greatest Gather Here!
Dates	14 August - 26 August
Teams	24 (from 6 regions)
Venues	7 (in 7 host cities)
Final positions
Tournament statistics
Total matches	76
Goals scored	0 (0.00 per game)
Top scorer	File:Nation.png Player (0 goals)
Team awards

The 2020 IAFF World Cup will be the second World Cup, an international football tournament contested by the national teams of invited member regions, as organised by the Interregional Association of Football Federations (IAFF). It will be hosted by Kavagrad from 13 to 26 August.

The final tournament will involve 24 national teams. A total of 76 matches will be played in 7 venues located in 7 cities. The final will take place on 26 August at the De Leon Stadium in East Neva, Kavagrad.

Host selection

The bidding procedure to host the 2020 IAFF World Cup began on 29 July, with nations having until 1 August to register their interest. Eight bids were placed to host the tournament among ten nations. All nations had one preferential ballot they could cast to determine the successful bid.

Kavagrad won the right to be the 2020 host in the third round after the distribution of preferences. The Owl Archipelago/The Outer Union/Zentata bid came second, and the Habsburg-Lorraine bid came third.

The voting results were:

2020 IAFF World Cup bidding (majority 9 votes)
Bidders	Votes
Bidders	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3
Kavagrad	7	8	9
Owl Archipelago / The Outer Union / Zentata	5	5	5
Habsburg-Lorraine	2	2	2
Imuneco	1	1	1
Alphonsia	1	1	Eliminated
Armenasia	1	Eliminated	Eliminated
Nekkko	0	Eliminated	Eliminated
Rajpore	0	Eliminated	Eliminated

Teams

Qualification

The qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the participating regions to select 4 nations each to play in the 2020 IAFF World Cup. A total of 39 nations from 6 regions participated in the process, with 24 of these nations qualifying.

Region	No. of teams started	Teams qualified	Qualifying start date	Qualifying end date
India	5	Rajpore Armenasia Indusse Bharat India	2 August 2020	11 August 2020
Social Liberal Union	5	North American Republics Imuneco Goncar Brys Questions	3 August 2020	11 August 2020
Thalassia	10	Herya Pupilos do Jerónimo The Outer Union Arenado	2 August 2020	10 August 2020
The Communist Bloc	6	Habsburg-Lorraine Egaleca Eriadni Ferisa	6 August 2020	12 August 2020
The Internationale	5	Nekkko Alphonsia Duravia Tioguldós	2 August 2020	11 August 2020
The Leftist Assembly	8	Kavagrad Llorens New Samon Asturies-Llión	2 August 2020	8 August 2020
Total	39	24	2 August 2020	12 August 2020

Draw

The draw was held on 12 August 2020. The 24 teams were drawn into six groups of four, by selecting one team from each of the four ranked pots.

For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the IAFF Rankings following the qualification stage. Pot one contained the host Kavagrad (who were automatically assigned to position A1) and the remaining best five teams. Pot two contained the next best six teams, and so on for pots three and four. Teams from the same region were not drawn against each other for the group stage. The pots for the draw are shown below.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 4
Kavagrad (3) (host) Goncar (1) Llorens (2) Nekkko (4) Herya (5) North American Republics (6)	Rajpore (7) Habsburg-Lorraine (8) Egaleca (9) Armenasia (10) The Outer Union (11) Pupilos do Jerónimo (12)	Imuneco (13) Arenado (15) New Samon (16) Eriadni (18) Ferisa (19) Duravia (20)	Alphonsia (21) Indusse (22) Asturies-Llión (25) Tioguldós (26) Bharat India (27) Brys Questions (38)

Venues

Venue name	Location	Capacity
De Leon Stadium	East Neva, Kava-Neva	86,520
Spartak Arena	Kavagrad, Kavagrad	82,000
Edmund Kava Stadium	Goodluck, Kava-Nida Autonomous District	74,000
Selim Yuliman Park	Mount Tomaz, Kava-Bostror	68,900
Stade Tyreux	Deligne, Kava-Tyreux	67,600
Unification Stadium	Pierrick, Pierrick Autonomous District	62,291
Riverside e-Arena	Grand Crossing, Kava-Rivers	58,000