Subject: [U21] Druid's Cup u20 - VII edition

Seems like a good time to pop this with only 1 week of friendlies left.

Just to check this is still running on the weeks listed? (even with the site crash). Thanks

why not?

Hi,
I have one week to prepare the tournament. I didn't have time to do everything due to my summer holiday :-) I need to change also calendar due to sokker issue.

I am happy to go with whatever suit you/everyone, just wanted to check as we missed a round of NT matches :)

Next week we will have World Cup final we will start week after.

Sverige defense vs Italy on final :D

Maybe we will see :-)

We play this week??

No, everything got pushed back a week.

Druid's Cup Rules:

1. The Druid's Cup is following according to the schedule below:

Week 11 (30.08.25) - Divisions battles matches I vs II and III vs IV (division define matches)
Week 12 (06.09.25) - 1/4 Druid's Cup Division I, II, III and IV
Week 13 (13.09.25) - 1/2 Druid's Cup Division I, II, III and IV
Week 01 (20.09.25) - Final Druid's Cup, Third place match, Fifth place match and Seventh place match in each Division

2. In the tournament all teams need to use u20 players.

3. In the all phases the teams will play friendly cup match. If the coaches made mistake and set friendly match and after 90 minutes will be draw then the team which wasn't responsible for invitation will win 3-0 (walkover) .

4.Always home team is responsible to send an invitation till Tuesday before the match, second team need to accept an invitation till Thursday.

5. Week 11 (30.08.25) - Divisions battles matches - after these matches the teams will divide by Divisions I, II, III and IV. The teams will be drawn according to ranking from week 10. Only the best 16 teams with the highest ranking can chance to win the tournament. I heard that a lot of teams don't want to destroy the ranking so I would like to keep during the tournament equal and interesting matches.

5. In each Division we will have 8 teams. Maybe less if we will not have 32 teams during start of tournament.

4. Week 12 (06.09.25) - 1/4 Druid's Cup - after this phase we will know who will play for places 1-4 and 5-8 in each Division.

5. Week 13 (13.09.25) - 1/2 Druid's Cup - after this phase we will know who will play for places 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 in each Division I.

6. Week 01 (20.09.25) - The last matches of the tournament. After theses matches we will know the team which win each Division in Druid's Cup.

I have updated the dates of the matches. You can find it in the first post of this topic. I would like to send to each coach @sk about the rules once again.

The most important that this tournament we play only u20 players, so to avoid walkovers please remove from your teams players 21 years old.

List of participants:

1. Italia U21
2. Suomi U21
3. Hrvatska U21
4. England U21
5. Azərbaycan U21
6. Sverige U21
7. België U21
8. Česká republika U21
9. Crna Gora U21
10. France U21
11. Slovenija U21
12. Bulgaria U21
13. Magyarország U21
14. Schweiz U21
15. New Zealand
16. Moldova U21
17. Deutschland U21
18. Poland U21
19. Latvija U21
20. España U21
21. Nederland U21
22. Hellas U21
23. România U21
24. Eesti U21
25. Ireland U21
26. Türkiye U21
27. Slovensko U21
28. Scotland U21
29. Bosna i Hercegovina U21
30. Kypros U21
31. Ukraine U21
32. Severna Makedonia U21

You can find the list the teams who will play in the tournament. The draw I will do 24.08

You can find the pots according to ranking points - 19.08

We have interesting situation due to Czech Republic and Spain can have chance to achieve promotion for pot number 1. Also England and Hrvatska can achieve promotion to pot number 2. So I can't do draw ealier than Saturday evening if I will estimate ranking points.

Pot 1:
- Poland U21
- România U21
- Magyarország U21
- Deutschland U21
- Türkiye U21
- Bulgaria U21
- France U21
- Italia U21

Pot 2:
- Česká republika U21
- España U21
- België U21
- Suomi U21
- Hellas U21
- Schweiz U21
- Eesti U21
- Slovensko U21

Pot 3:
- Hrvatska U21
- England U21
- Azərbaycan U21
- Bosna i Hercegovina U21
- Nederland U21
- Sverige U21
- Moldova U21
- Ukraine U21

Pot 4:
- Scotland U21
- Crna Gora U21
- Ireland U21
- Slovenija U21
- New Zealand
- Kypros U21
- Latvija U21
- Severna Makedonia U21

I'm quite happy in Pot 3 thankyouverymuch.

Espana pot 2?

Actual world ranking Spain is 11.
Italy won friendly match to Poland and now is Pot 1. Pass 11 to 9 position this week.