Tournament details | |
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Host country | Romania |
Dates | 5–6 November |
Teams | 7 |
Venue(s) | 1 (in 1 host city) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Romania (2nd title) |
Runners-up | Czech Republic |
Third place | Moldova |
Fourth place | Greece |
The 2011 European minifootball Championships was the second edition of the unofficial European minifootball championships, a forerunner of the EMF miniEURO, a competition for national Small-sided football teams. It was hosted in Tulcea, Romania, from 5 to 6 November 2011. [1]
The defending champions, Romania, kept their title by overcoming Czech Republic 5–4 on penalties after 3–3 in the final. [2] [3] [4]
Key to colours in group tables |
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Team advanced to the knockout stage |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Romania | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | +9 | 9 |
Greece | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 6 | −1 | 4 |
Bulgaria | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 2 |
Slovakia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | −3 | 1 |
5 November 2011 | ||
Romania | 5–0 | Bulgaria |
Greece | 3–2 | Slovakia |
Romania | 3–1 | Slovakia |
Bulgaria | 1–1 | Greece |
Greece | 1–3 | Romania |
Slovakia | 2–2 | Bulgaria |
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Czech Republic | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 6 |
Moldova | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 3 |
Cyprus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 8 | −5 | 0 |
5 November 2011 | ||
Moldova | 2–3 | Czech Republic |
Czech Republic | 3–2 | Cyprus |
Cyprus | 1–5 | Moldova |
The knockout stage matches were played on 6 November 2011. If a match is drawn after 40 minutes of regular play, a penalty shoot-out is used to determine the winner.
Semi-finals | Final | |||||
Romania | 4 | |||||
Moldova | 1 | |||||
Romania | 3 (5) | |||||
Czech Republic | 3 (4) | |||||
Czech Republic | 1 (2) | |||||
Greece | 1 (0) | |||||
Third place | ||||||
Moldova | 1 | |||||
Greece | 0 |
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