2014 Expo Unity World Cup

2014 Unity World Cup

Tournament details
Host country	India
Dates	5–14 December 2014
Teams	8 (from 4 confederations)
Venue(s)	5 (in 5 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Nigeria (1st title)
Runners-up	Colombia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	15
Goals scored	47 (3.13 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Adegboyega Adekunle Joseph (8 goals)
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The Expo 2014 Unity World Cup was the 1st edition of the Unity World Cup, a biennial international men's amateur football championship, organised by the John Paul II Foundation for Sport. The tournament was played between 5 December and 14 December 2014 in Goa, India.

Teams competing

Group A

• Brazil
• India
• Ghana
• Portugal

Group B

• Egypt
• Nigeria
• Colombia
• Uzbekistan

Venues

The tournament was played at numerous venues across India, including Goa (which hosted the semi-finals and the final), Mumbai, Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore.

Group stage

All times are local, UTC+5:30.

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Portugal	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
2	India (H)	3	1	2	0	5	2	+3	5
3	Brazil	3	1	1	1	6	6	0	4
4	Ghana	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

Source: Kolkata Football
(H) Hosts

5 December 2014 (2014-12-05)

Brazil	2–2	India
Lucas ?', ?'		Vaz ?' Devasigamani ?'

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8 December 2014 (2014-12-08)

Portugal	2–1	Ghana
Daniel Costa 17' Cruze 25'	Report (Kolkata Football)	Tagoe ?'

8 December 2014 (2014-12-08)

India	3–0	Ghana
Gonsalves 45' (pen.) Rodricks 62', 90'+2'	Report (Kolkata Football)

8 December 2014 (2014-12-08)

Portugal	2–0	Brazil
Carino 16' Cruze 45'	Report (Kolkata Football)

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9 December 2014 (2014-12-09)

Brazil	4–2	Ghana
Marcelo 7', 58' Valmir 23' Lucas 62'		Obed ?' Eric ?'

9 December 2014 (2014-12-09)

India	0–0	Portugal

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Nigeria	3	3	0	0	12	0	+12	9
2	Colombia	3	2	0	1	3	4	−1	6
3	Egypt	3	1	0	2	3	4	−1	3
4	Uzbekistan	3	0	0	3	2	12	−10	0

Source: Kolkata Football

6 December 2014 (2014-12-06)

Colombia	2–1	Uzbekistan
Temur 3' Castanef 40'		Monkal 70'

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7 December 2014 (2014-12-07)

Uzbekistan	1–3	Egypt
Rinat 35'		Daniel 4', 20', 50'

7 December 2014 (2014-12-07)

Colombia	0–3	Nigeria
		Isah Akor 32' Sikiru 43' Joseph 50'+2'

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8 December 2014 (2014-12-08)

Nigeria	2–0	Egypt
Isah Akor 7' Joseph 25'

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9 December 2014 (2014-12-09)

Uzbekistan	0–7	Nigeria
		Akuneto 11', 61' Chuks 19', 40' Joseph 23', 27' Chukwuma 52'

9 December 2014 (2014-12-09)

Egypt	0–1	Colombia

Knockout stage

If tied after regulation, extra time and, if necessary, penalty shoot-out would be used to decide the winner. All times are local, UTC+5:30.

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	11 December — Goa
	India	0
					14 December — Goa
	Nigeria	1
					Colombia	0
	12 December — Goa
					Nigeria	7
	Colombia	1
	Portugal	0

Semi-finals

11 December 2014 (2014-12-11)

India	0–1	Nigeria
		Joseph ?'

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12 December 2014 (2014-12-12)

Colombia	1–0	Portugal
Celis 34'

Final

14 December 2014 (2014-12-14)

Colombia	0–7	Nigeria
		Joseph 10', 27', 29' Sikiru 4', 25' Ajibola ?' Chuks ?'