Football 7-a-side at the 2014 Asian Para Games

Football 7-a-side at the 2014 Asian Para Games
	Football 7-a-side pictogram
Tournament details
Host country	South Korea
Dates	19 – 23 October 2014
Teams	4
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Iran
Runners-up	Japan
Third place	South Korea
Fourth place	Singapore
Tournament statistics
Matches played	8
Goals scored	38 (4.75 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Akbari Moslem (IRI) (6); Tiz Bor Hossein (IRI) (6)
	← 2010 Guangzhou

7-a-side football at the 2014 Asian Para Games were held in Namdong Asiad Rugby Field, Incheon from 19 – 23 October 2014. There was 1 gold medal in this sport.^[1]

Participating teams and officials[edit]

Qualifying[edit]

A total of four teams will qualify to compete in the football five a side competition. The host nation (South Korea) automatically qualifies a team. A team may consist of a maximum of 14 athletes.

Means of qualification	Berths	Qualified
Host nation	1	South Korea
Asian Region	3	Iran Japan Singapore
Total	4

Squads[edit]

The individual teams contact following football gamblers on to:

Iran	Japan	South Korea	Singapore
Khazaeipirsarabi Moslem Rastegarimobin Hashem Safari Hassan Tiz Bor Hossein Hassani Baghi Sadegh Mehri Farzad Sohrabibagherabadi Behnam Gholamhosseinpour Boushehri Ehsan Jamali Mehdi Bakhshi Jasem Atashafrouz Rasoul Akbari Moslem Safarikourabbasloo Babak Coach: Allah Mani Amin	Kagayama Naoyoshi Henry Kawabe Keisuke Ozaki Hisato Takahashi Hiroto Taniguchi Taisei Yamada Yuji Soma Yuki Kubo Kazuhiro Toda Tetsuya Yoshino Ryuta Ura Tatsuhiro Kuroda Shou Osawa Shotaro Yanagi Hideyuki Coach: Sano Junichi	Son Hye-Seong Doo Sung-Min Kim Sang-Yul Jung Phil-Lip Choi Beom-Jun Lee Hun-Ju Oh Kyung-Seok Heo Chi-Yoon Jang Jun-Ho Lee Dong-U Park Jung-Deuk Jeong Do-Hyun Lee Seung-Hwan Kim Hyung-Soo Coach: Kim Il-Sub

Venues[edit]

The venues to be used for the World Championships were located in Incheon.^[2]

Incheon		Incheon
Stadium: Incheon Namdong Asiad Rugby Field
Capacity: Unknown

Format[edit]

The first round, or group stage, was a competition between the 4 teams in one group, where engaged in a round-robin tournament within itself. In both of the best placed, they play in the final for the tournament, the two last teams play for third place.

Tie-breaking criteria for group play
The ranking of teams in each group was based on the following criteria: Number of points Goal difference Number of goals scored Number of points obtained in matches between tied teams Goal difference in matches between tied teams Number of goals scored in matches between tied teams Drawing of lots

Classification
Athletes with a physical disability competed. The athlete's disability was caused by a non-progressive brain damage that affects motor control, such as cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or stroke. Athletes must be ambulant.

Players were classified by level of disability.

C5: Athletes with difficulties when walking and running, but not in standing or when kicking the ball.
C6: Athletes with control and co-ordination problems of their upper limbs, especially when running.
C7: Athletes with hemiplegia.
C8: Athletes with minimal disability; must meet eligibility criteria and have an impairment that has impact on the sport of football.

Teams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than two players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.

Group stage[edit]

In the first group stage have seen the teams in a one group of four teams.

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualified for
1	Iran	3	2	1	13	3	+10	6	Team play for position 1
2	Japan	3	2	1	6	3	+3	6	Team play for position 1
3	Singapore	3	1	2	3	8	−5	3	Team play for the position 3
4	South Korea	3	1	2	4	12	−8	3	Team play for the position 3

Source: IFCPF CP Football 2014 Asian Para Games
Rules for classification: Tie-breaking criteria

2014-10-19