The I Internatia Cup is scheduled to be the 1st edition of the Internatia Cup, the football championship of Internatia (CIF). The final tournament will be hosted by Irdminia and Mukaltin. The competition is likely to be held in July 2013.
Six bids came before the deadline at 5 May 2013 which were Novatlantida, Sibinia, Spirevo, Sunetti and Tikata as single bids each and Irdminia and Mukaltin as a joint bid.
Voting results
In each round a majority of six votes was needed. If no bid received 6 votes in a round, the bid with the least amount of votes in that round was eliminated. On 10 May 2013 joint bid of Irdminia and Mukaltin was chosen.
If the proposed format is used, 16 teams will be drawn in four groups. Only the hosts will gets an automatic qualification spot, the other 14 teams will qualify through qualification tournament. At the finals, the 16 teams will be drawn into four groups of four teams each. The teams in each group play a single round robin. After group stage, the top two teams from each group will qualify for the quarterfinals. The quarterfinal winners will advance to the semifinals. The semifinal losers will play in third place match, while winners will play in final.
Venues
A total of 32 matches will be played during I Internatia Cup.
The teams finishing in the top two positions in each of the four groups (highlighted in tables) progressed to the quarter-finals, while the bottom two teams were eliminated from the tournament.
Tie-breaking
If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria were applied:
Higher number of points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
Superior goal difference resulting from the matches played between the teams in question;
Higher number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
If two teams tie alone (according to 1–5) after having met in the last round of the group stage their ranking is determined by penalty shoot-out.
Fair play conduct of the teams (final tournament);
In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time shall be played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by kicks from the penalty spot to determine the winner.
Irdminia/
Mukaltin
Tikata
Sunetti
Spirevo
Novatlantida
Sibinia
Pebbleland
San Remo
Monteverde
Alexandria
Marvelia
Edoriada
Tashkveny
Chruno
Kaledonii
