Welcome to the latest update on the FIFFSA Five-A-Side World Cup. We are delighted to announce we already have 41 complete teams and nine more managers actively recruiting. This is a really impressive turn out already considering there are still two more weeks to sign up. We want to thank all of you for your participation and especially those who have already got in to the spirit of the tournament and have been making press conferences in the articles and making new gravatars for the occasion.The Tournament Format
As some of you have already been asking, we’d like to elaborate a bit on the tournament format, which we have previously said would follow a World Cup Format as closely as possible.
This means we want to stage a final 32 team World Cup in Thailand, staying true to this years amateur five-a-side World Cup’s location. To get to Thailand there will be a qualifying format not dissimilar to the FIFA World Cup’s qualifying process with qualifying groups and playoffs for best losers. The qualifying process will last between five and eight weeks to ensure that no teams leave the competition too early.
The exact format of the qualifying is yet to be worked out as the number of teams is still growing but we will finalise the process shortly after the registration deadline on November 11th.
How do the matches work?
The Five-A-Side World Cup is a tournament open to squads of six players, who will field a team of five players each week, with one player on the substitute’s bench. A team’s score each week will be the sum of the FPL scores of the five players the team fields.
Each week, teams will go head to head against another team and the team with the highest aggregate score will win that match.
Can I still join?
Anybody in the FFScout community with an official FPL team is eligible to join,Whether this is your first season or your tenth.
IF you want to join a team that is still recruiting, please check this spreadsheet to see which captains still have space and then contact them either here on FFS or via email should you wish to join their nation.
For individuals who wish to participate in the tournament but not are unsure who you want to join, you can fill out this form for players looking for a team. Your details will then be included on our unaffiliated players list that will be passed to the team captains to recruit from. A post on this article may also attract the interest of a captain.
If you are interested in captaining your own nation, please email fiffsa.exec@gmail.com to confirm the nation’s availability and allow us to track team numbers. The countries to be represented will be allocated on a first come, first serve basis as captains volunteer themselves.
Once you have a team together, with at least five players but preferably six, you should fill out this form to register your squad.
For the new managers amongst us, FIFFSA have put together a brief guide on the captaincy role and what the job entails.
If you have any further queries, feel free to ask below in the comments or email us at: fiffsa.exec@gmail.com
As a final request, please do try and keep FIFFSA 5-A-Side chat to the comment sections of our articles.
Enjoy the tournament; this is the FIFFSA 5-A-Side World Cup. Accept no imitations.
The FIFFSA Executive Committee – President Sepp Balders, VP BabyB, VP Jaffalicious!, VP Diva, VP Blue Lion and Secretary General Jerome Cheeseoid.
8 years, 7 months agoThanks for the update. Good luck everyone….especially Wales. 🙂