BRICS U-17 Football Cup
Brazilian team celebrating with the trophy at the Fatorda Stadium in 2016
Founded2016
RegionBRICS Nations
Number of teams5
 Brazil
 Russia
 India
 China
 South Africa
Current champions Brazil (2nd title)
Most successful team(s) Brazil (2 titles)
Websitewww.bricsfootballcup.com.br

The BRICS U-17 Football Cup is a U-17 Football tournament played among teams of five BRICS countries - economic block formed by Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The first historic edition was played in Goa, India in 2016 on the occasion of the 8th BRICS summit that was held in India.[1] The Tournament will take place once every year with 10-day and following the lines of the tournaments under-17 FIFA. Each edition will be held in a BRICS nation. On 1 October 2016 The Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, unveiled the Trophy[2] for the 2016 BRICS U-17 Football Tournament in London.

Brics Football Cup was not held in 2017 during the Xiamen Summit, but the tournament come back for the second edition for Johannesburg Summit, 2018. In this edition Women's U-17 teams of respective countries competed for the cup.[3][4][5]

Format

On the very first tournament, held in Goa, India a round-robin stage was played. From this round, 1st and 2nd teams of points table entered final and on the other hand 3rd and 4th teams of points table entered 3rd place game respectively. 5th team was directly eliminated after first round.

In the second edition, only round-robin stage was played in Johannesburg, South Africa. The teams were given awards according to their places in points table after round-robin stage.

Teams

Team Confederation
 BrazilCONMEBOL
 ChinaAFC
 IndiaAFC
 RussiaUEFA
 South AfricaCAF

Results

Season Host country Final match date Winner Final match result Runners-up Third place Highest goal scorer
2016  India 15 October 2016 Brazil Brazil
5–1
 South Africa South Africa Russia Russia Brazil Vinícius Júnior (4 goals)
2018  South Africa 22 July 2018 Brazil Brazil
‡
 China China South Africa South Africa
‡ There was no knock-out match played, the tournament was played as league tournament, team with highest point won the cup, in this case Brazil.

Team performance

Hosts→
Teams↓		 2016
India		 2018
South Africa		 Apps.
Brazil Brazil 1st 1st 2
Russia Russia 3rd 4th
India India 5th 5th
China China PR 4th 2nd
South Africa South Africa 2nd 3rd

See also

References

  1. ↑ India to host BRICS U17 Cup in 2016. The Pioneer. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015
  2. ↑ "PM Modi unveils BRICS U-17 Football Trophy". The Home of Indian Football. 1 October 2016. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "TWENTY SELECTED FOR INDIAN U-17 WOMEN'S TEAM FOR BRICS U-17 FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT". AIFF. July 13, 2018.
  4. ↑ "BRICS Cup U17 2018: India announced 35-member squad". SportsKeeda. 8 July 2018.
  5. ↑ "LISTEN: Dludlu on Alexandra visit and BRICS tournament preparations". SAFA. July 12, 2018.


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