Paralympic football

Paralympic football consists of adaptations of the sport of association football for athletes with a physical disability. These sports are typically played using International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) rules, with modifications to the field of play, equipment, numbers of players, and other rules as required to make the game suitable for the athletes.

The two most prominent versions of Paralympic football are 5-a-side football for athletes with visual impairments, and 7-a-side football for athletes with cerebral palsy.

5-a-side football

5-a-side football, also known as futsal and blind football, is an adaptation of football for athletes with visual impairments including blindness. The sport, governed by the International Blind Sports Federation (IBSA), is played with modified FIFA rules. The field of play is smaller, and is surrounded by boards. Teams are reduced to five players, including the goalkeeper, per team. Teams may also use one guide, who is positioned off the field of play, to assist in directing players. The ball is equipped with a noise-making device to allow players to locate it by sound. Matches consist of two 25-minute halves, with a ten-minute break at half-time.

Football 5-a-side players are assigned to one of three sport classes based on their level of visual impairment:

B1 - Totally or almost totally blind; from no light perception up to light perception but inability to recognise the shape of a hand.
B2 - Partially sighted; able to recognise the shape of a hand up to a visual acuity of 2/60 or a visual field of less than 5 degrees.
B3 - Partially sighted; visual acuity from 2/60 to 6/60 or visual field from 5 to 20 degrees

Teams are permitted to use sighted athletes as goalkeepers and guides; sighted goalkeepers cannot have been registered with FIFA for at least five years.

Two types of competition exist. For Class B1 games, only athletes with sport class B1 are permitted as players, with the exception of the goalkeepers and the guides, who may be class B2, B3, or sighted. For Class B2/B3 games, teams can field players in sport classes B2 and B3; at least two B2 players must be on the field at all times.

5-a-side football in Europe was developed in Spain. The first Spanish national championships took place in Spain in 1986. In South America, there are records of a Brazilian Tournament organized in 1980. European and American Championships took place in 1997, followed by the first World Championships in 1998. The sport was added to the Summer Paralympic Games in 2004.

Brazil was champion of the world tournaments in 1998, 2000, 2010 and 2014^[1] and Argentina won in 2004 and 2006.

Results : http://www.ibsasport.org/sports/football/results/

IBSA Blind Football World Championships (Men's B1)

Year	Venue	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
1998 Details	Campinas	Brazil	1–0	Argentina	Spain	2–0	Colombia	6
2000 Details	Jerez	Brazil	3–0	Argentina	Spain	4–0	Greece	8
2002 Details	Rio de Janeiro	Argentina	4–2	Spain	Brazil	2–0	Colombia	9
2006 Details	Buenos Aires	Argentina	1–0	Brazil	Paraguay	2–1	Spain	8
2010 Details	Hereford	Brazil	2–0	Spain	China	1–0	England	10
2014 Details	Tokyo	Brazil	1–0	Argentina	Spain	0–0 (2-0 in Penalty)	China	12
2018 Details	Madrid	Brazil	2–0	Argentina	China	2–1	Russia	16

IBSA Blind Football World Championships (Men's B2/B3=Partially Sighted)

Year	Venue	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
1998 Details	Campinas	Belarus	3–2	Spain	Italy	9–2	Argentina	6
2002 Details	Varese	Belarus	14–2	Russia	Spain	3–2	Brazil	12
2013 Details	Miyagi	Russia	1–0 (AET)	Ukraine	England	14–0	Japan	4
2017 Details	Cagliari	Ukraine	3–0	England	Russia	2–2 (2-1 in Penalty)	Spain	8
2021 Details

IBSA Blind Football World Championships (Women's B1)

not yet

IBSA Blind Football World Championships (Women's B2/B3=Partially Sighted)

not yethi

Blind Football at the IBSA World Games

Men's B1

Year	Venue	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
2007 Details	São Paulo	Brazil	2–0	Argentina	Spain	0–0(1-0 in Penalty)	Japan	4
2011 Details	Antalya	Iran	3–0	France	China	3–0	England	7
2015 Details	Seoul	Argentina	2–1	United Kingdom	Spain	1–0	China	9
2019 Details

Men's B2/B3

Year	Venue	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
2007 Details	São Paulo	Belarus	1–1(3-2 in Penalty)	Ukraine	Spain	4–0	Brazil	4
2011 Details	Antalya	Belarus	5–1	Ukraine	Spain	7–4	England	9
2015 Details	Seoul	Ukraine	3–1	Spain	Italy	2–1	Japan	5
2019 Details

Women's B1

not yet

Women's B2/B3

not yet

IBSA Blind Football Asian Championships

Until 2017 only in Men's B1 (not Women's and not Men's B2/B3)

Year	Venue	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams
2005 Details	Ho Chi Minh City	Japan	Round Robin	South Korea	Vietnam	Round Robin	none	3
2007 Details	Seoul	China	3–0	South Korea	Iran	1–0	Japan	4
2009 Details	Tokyo	China	2–0	Japan	South Korea	0–0 (1-0 in Penalty)	Iran	5
2011 Details	Sendai	China	1–0	Iran	Japan	2–0	South Korea	4
2013 Details	Beijing	China	0–0 (3-2 in Penalty)	Japan	South Korea	Round Robin	none	3
2015 Details	Tokyo	Iran	0–0 (1-0 in Penalty)	China	South Korea	0–0 (2-1 in Penalty)	Japan	6
2017 Details	Kuala Lumpur	China	2–0	Iran	Thailand	2–0	South Korea	6

Blind Football at the Asian Para Games

Until 2014 only in Men's B1 (not Women's and not Men's B2/B3)

Year	Venue		Winners	Score	Runners-up		Third place	Score	Fourth place		Number of teams
2010 Details	Guangzhou		China	1–0	Iran		South Korea	0–0 (2-1 in Penalty)	Japan		5
2014 Details	Incheon		Iran	Round Robin	Japan		China	Round Robin	South Korea		5

IBSA Blind Football European Championships

IBSA Blind Football American Championships

IBSA Blind Football African Championships

7-a-side football

7-a-side football is an adaptation of association football for athletes with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders, including stroke and traumatic brain injury. The sport is governed by the Cerebral Palsy International Sports and Recreation Association (CP-ISRA). The sport is played with modified FIFA rules. Among the modifications are a reduced field of play, a reduction in the number of players, elimination of the offside rule, and permission for one-handed throw-ins. Matches consist of two thirty-minute halves, with a fifteen-minute half-time break.

Players competing in 7-a-side football are given a sport class based on their level of disability. Eligible classes are:

C5: Athletes with difficulties when walking and running, but not in standing or when kicking the ball.
C6: Athletes with control and co-ordination problems of their upper limbs, especially when running.
C7: Athletes with hemiplegia.
C8: Minimally disabled athletes; they must meet eligibility criteria and have an obvious impairment that has impact on the sport of football.

Teams must field at least one class C5 or C6 player at all times. No more than one players of class C8 are permitted to play at the same time.

International competition in 7-a-side football began at the 1978 CP-ISRA International Games in Edinburgh, Scotland. The sport was added to the Summer Paralympic Games at the 1984 Summer Paralympics in New York City, U.S., and has been played at every Summer Games since.

World CP Football Championships

World Championships and International Cups

Year	Host	Winner	Score	Runner-up	Third place	Score	Fourth place	Number of teams	Ref.
1982 Details	Greve (CPG)	Ireland	2–0	Netherlands	Belgium	no information available²		8	^[2]^[3]
1986 Details	Gits (CPG)	Netherlands	3–0	Belgium	Ireland	³	Portugal	6	^[2]^[3]
1990 Details	Assen (WC)	Netherlands	5–0	Ireland	Belgium	no information available²		5	^[2]^[3]
1994 Details	Dublin (WC)	Netherlands	2–0	Ireland	Belgium	³	Spain		^[2]^[3]
1998 Details	Rio de Janeiro (WC)	Russia	3–1	Ukraine	Brazil	3–2	Spain	11	^[2]
2001 Details	Nottingham (CPG)	Ukraine	3–1	Russia	Brazil	2–0	Iran	13	^[4]
2003 Details	Buenos Aires (WC)	Ukraine	3–1	Brazil	Russia	2–1	Argentina		^[2]
2005 Details	New London (CPG)	/ Russia Ukraine	no score found	/ Russia Ukraine	Iran	9–0	Netherlands	13	^[3]
2007 Details	Rio de Janeiro (WC)	Russia	2–1	Iran	Ukraine	2–0	Brazil	16	^[2]^[5]
2009 Details	Arnhem (IC)	Ukraine	0–0 (a.e.t.) (9–8 p.)	Russia	Iran	1–0	Brazil	12	^[6]
2011 Details	Assen, Emmen, Hoogeveen (WC)	Russia	6–1	Iran	Ukraine	8–3	Brazil	16	^[2]^[7]
2013 Details	Sant Cugat del Vallès (Cup)	Ukraine	1–0	Brazil	Russia	4–0	Ireland	16	^[8]
2015 Details	Burton-upon-Trent (WC)	Russia	1–0	Ukraine	Brazil	6–0	Netherlands	16	^[2]^[9]
2017 Details	San Luis (WC)	Ukraine	1–0	Iran	Russia	2–0	England	16	^[10]
2019 Details	not forgiven (Cup)	Future events			Future events
2020 Details	not forgiven (Top8)	Future events			Future events			8
2021 Details	not forgiven (WC)	Future events			Future events
2023 Details	not forgiven (Cup)	Future events			Future events
2024 Details	not forgiven (Top8)	Future events			Future events			8
2025 Details	not forgiven (WC)	Future events			Future events

2 = There is no information on the homepage of the IFCPF

3 = no score found

a.e.t.: after extra time
p: after penalty shoot-out

References

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External links

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[:5-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ "History of CP Football". ifcpf.com. International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Retrieved 2016-09-19.

[:6-3] "CP voetbal, interlands, overzicht". cpvoetbal.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 2017-07-31. Retrieved 2016-09-19.

[4] "CP-ISRA World Games 2001 FOOTBALL - CP WORLD CUP, RESULTS". cpisra.org. 2002-02-14. Archived from the original on 2002-02-14. Retrieved 2016-09-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[5] "2007 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships". ande.org.br. 2007-12-19. Archived from the original on 2007-12-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[6] "2009 CPISRA Football 7-a-side International Championships, Schedule" (PDF). cpisra.org.za. 2012-09-16. Archived from the original on 2012-09-16. Retrieved 2016-09-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[7] "2011 CPISRA Football 7-a-side World Championships". wkcp.nl. 2012-07-19. Archived from the original on 2012-05-22. Retrieved 2016-09-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[8] "2013 CPISRA Intercontinental Cup". icup2013.com. 2013-12-18. Archived from the original on 2013-12-18. Retrieved 2016-09-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[9] "2015 CP football world championships England 2015". cp2015.com. 2013-12-18. Archived from the original on 2016-04-05. Retrieved 2016-09-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)

[10] "IFCPF CP Football World Championships, San Luis, Argentina, 4-24 September 2017". ifcpf.com. International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football. Retrieved 2017-09-24.

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