2018 FMRL World Cup

2018 FMRL World Cup

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Tournament details
Host country	Senya
Teams	12 (from 3 confederations)
Venue(s)	8 (in 7 host cities)
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Hosts

The Florian Republic was initially announced as the hosts of the competition, however, due to the War of Lost Brothers, the hosting rights were stripped, and bidding re-opened. It was then announced that Senya would later be awarded hosting rights after a successful bid.

Bids

•  Florian Republic
•  Senya

Venues

These stadiums will be used for the tournament:

• The Snakepit, Svorgas (115,000)
• Moroni Sports Oval, Moroni (70,000)
• Stad Tiga, Tiga (61,350)
• ĴetsStad, Dyas (55,000)
• Air Senya Arena, Lutsan (46,500)
• Eprat City Stadium, Eprat (45,000)
• Stadion Kakvasëm, Zvarëen (35,000)
• Eprat Rugby Stadium, Eprat (25,000)

Qualification

Qualified teams

•  Birgeshir (2017 World Cup runners-up)
•  Craitland (2018 ARL Championships runners-up)¹
•  Gerenia
•  Mercury (2018 KRL Championships winners)
•  North Antarctica (2018 SRL Championships runners-up)²
•  Nova English Korea

•  Senya (2017 World Cup winners and hosts)
•  Florian Republic
•  Nova England
•  Zandarijn
• TBD
• TBD

¹ Craitland qualified as runners-up due to Senya's automatic qualification as hosts.
² North Antarctica qualified as runners-up due to Birgeshir's automatic qualification as World Cup runners-up.

Group stage

The draw for the group stage will be made once qualifying is completed. The top 4 seeds for the competition will be drawn into Groups A and B, with the hosts automatically being given the first seeded spot in Group A. The remaining 8 unseeded teams will be drawn into the other slots, starting with two teams into Group C, then in alphabetical order of groups, starting with Group A.

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Senya	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advances to quarter-finals
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

A4 v  Senya

A4	–	Senya

The Snakepit, Svorgas

A2 v A3

A2	–	A3

Eprat Rugby Stadium, Eprat

Senya v A3

Senya	–	A3

Stad Tiga, Tiga

A2 v A4

A2	–	A4

Stadion Kakvasëm, Zvarëen

Senya v A2

Senya	–	A2

Eprat City Stadium, Eprat

A3 v A4

A3	–	A4

ĴetsStad, Dyas

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advances to quarter-finals
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

B4 v B1

B4	–	B1

Stad Tiga, Tiga

B2 v B3

B2	–	B3

ĴetsStad, Dyas

B1 v B3

B1	–	B3

ĴetsStad, Dyas

B2 v B4

B2	–	B4

Air Senya Arena, Lutsan

B1 v B2

B1	–	B2

Moroni Sports Oval, Moroni

B3 v B4

B3	–	B4

Eprat Rugby Stadium, Eprat

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Advances to quarter-finals
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TBD	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

C2 v C3

C2	–	C3

Air Senya Arena, Lutsan

C4 v C1

C4	–	C1

Eprat City Stadium, Eprat

C1 v C3

C1	–	C3

Moroni Sports Oval, Moroni

C2 v C4

C2	–	C4

Eprat Rugby Stadium, Eprat

C1 v C2

C1	–	C2

Air Senya Arena, Lutsan

C3 v C4

C3	–	C4

Stadion Kakvasëm, Zvarëen

Knockout stage

Quarter-finals

Winner Group A v Winner Group C

Winner Group A	–	Winner Group C

Moroni Sports Oval, Moroni

Winner Group B v Runner-up Group C

Winner Group B	–	Runner-up Group C

Stad Tiga, Tiga

Runner-up Group A v Third place Group B

Runner-up Group A	–	Third place Group B

The Snakepit, Svorgas

Runner-up Group B v Third place Group A

Runner-up Group B	–	Third place Group A

Eprat City Stadium, Eprat

Semi-finals

Winner quarter-final 1 v Winner quarter-final 4

Winner quarter-final 1	–	Winner quarter-final 4

The Snakepit, Svorgas

Winner quarter-final 2 v Winner quarter-final 3

Winner quarter-final 2	–	Winner quarter-final 3

Moroni Sports Oval, Moroni

Third-place play-off

Loser semi-final 1 v Loser semi-final 2

Loser semi-final 1	–	Loser semi-final 2

Stadion Kakvasëm, Zvarëen

Final

Winner semi-final 1 v Winner semi-final 2

Winner semi-final 1	–	Winner semi-final 2

The Snakepit, Svorgas