III Outernatia Cup of Nations

III Outernatia Cup of Nations
	III Outernatia Cup of Nations official logo
Tournament details
Host country	Kimmystan
Dates	To be decided
Teams	TBD (from 1 confederation)
Venue(s)	4 (in 3 host cities)
	← II IV →

The III Outernatia Cup of Nations was the third edition of the Outernatia Cup of Nations, the football championship of Outernatia (OCAF), that took place in Kimmystan.

Host selection

On 16 August 2016, OCAF announced that Kimmystan was officially elected as host of the third edition of Outernatia Cup of Nations. ^[1]

Qualification

55 OCAF member associations were set to compete in the qualifying competition, with the hosts (Kimmystan) qualifying directly to the finals tournament. The other 54 teams are drawn into nine groups of six teams. The group winners, runners-up, and the best third-placed team (with the results against the sixth-placed team discarded) directly qualify to the finals. The eight remaining third-placed teams contest two-legged play-offs to determine the last four qualifiers for the finals. The following 24 teams qualified for the final tournament:

Qualified teams

Country	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament
Kimmystan	Host	15 August 2016	0 (debut)
Vydrja	Group A winner	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Bitland	Group B winner	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Alma Livre	Group C winner	25 August 2016	1 (I)
Timivar	Group D winner	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Easterosia	Group E winner	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Raingate	Group F winner	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Auspikitan	Group G winner	25 August 2016	1 (II)
Gandhara	Group H winner	25 August 2016	2 (I,II)
Almarania	Group I winner	25 August 2016	2 (I,II)
Gaulia	Group A runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Ponásikwa	Group B runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Equatoria	Group C runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Aurävaan	Group D runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Laranjeiras	Group E runner-up	25 August 2016	1 (II)
Ivanotia	Group F runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Fervorosia	Group G runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Irlandia	Group H runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Frostfall	Group I runner-up	25 August 2016	0 (debut)
Harmony	Best third place	26 August 2016	0 (debut)
	Play-off winner
	Play-off winner
	Play-off winner
	Play-off winner

Final draw

The draw for the finals is set to take place at the in Nordfjord on 31 August 2016, 18:00 CET.

The 24 qualified teams were drawn into six groups of four teams, with the hosts Kimmystan being automatically placed in position A1. The remaining teams were seeded into four pots of five (Pot 1) or six teams (Pots 2, 3 and 4). As the title holders, Laranjeiras were seeded in Pot 1, while the other 22 teams were seeded according to the OCAF National team coefficients.

Pot 1
Team	Coeff	Rank
Laranjeiras	1.43	1
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA

Pot 2
Team	Coeff	Rank
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA

Pot 3
Team	Coeff	Rank
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA

Pot 4
Team	Coeff	Rank
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA
None	TBA	TBA

The Pot 1 teams were assigned to the first positions of their groups, while the positions of all other teams were drawn separately (for the purposes of determining the match schedules in each group).

The draw resulted in the following groups:

Group A
Pos	Team
A1	Kimmystan
A2	None
A3	None
A4	None

Group B
Pos	Team
B1	None
B2	None
B3	None
B4	None

Group C
Pos	Team
C1	None
C2	None
C3	None
C4	None

Group D
Pos	Team
D1	None
D2	None
D3
D4	None

Group E
Pos	Team
E1	None
E2
E3
E4

Group F
Pos	Team
F1	None
F2	None
F3	None
F4	None

Venues

On 21 August 2016, the OCAF Executive Committee announced that the six host cities of the III Outernatia Cup of Nations are Cwm, Dalen, Fettevika, Fjordvika, Huttiheita and Nordfjord

Cwm	Dalen	Fettevika
Cwm Stadium	Dalen Arena	Fettevika Stadium
Capacity: 51,700	Capacity: 45,000	Capacity: 50,300

Nordfjord Cwm Fjordvika Dalen Fettevika Huttiheita
Fjordvika	Huttiheita	Nordfjord
Fjordvika Stadium	Hutti Arena	Nordfjord Arena
Capacity: 58,000	Capacity: 65,000	Capacity: 80,000

Finals format

To accommodate the expansion from 6 teams to 24 teams, the format was changed to four extra groups in the group stage, and two extra rounds in the knockout phases. The six groups (A to F) still contained four teams each, with the top two from each group still going through to the knockout phase. In the new format, however, the four best third-ranked sides also progress, leaving 16 teams going into the new round-of-16 knockout phases, ahead of the usual quarter-finals, semi-finals and final, and only 8 teams going out at the group stage. This format generates a total of 51 games, compared with 31 games for the previous 6-team tournament.

Group stage

File:III Outernatia Cup 2016 map.svg

Result of teams participating in III Outernatia Cup of Nations

Winner

Runner-up

Semi-finals

Quarter-finals

Round of 16

Group stage

OCAF will announce the tournament schedule on September 1 2016.. All times are local, CEST (UTC+2).

Group winners, runners-up, and the best four third-placed teams advanced to the Round of 16.

Tiebreakers

If two or more teams were equal on points on completion of the group matches, the following tie-breaking criteria would be applied:^[2]

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;
If, after having applied criteria 1 to 3, teams still had an equal ranking (e.g. if criteria 1 to 3 were applied to three teams that were level on points initially and these criteria separated one team from the other two who still have an equal ranking), criteria 1 to 3 would be reapplied exclusively to the matches between the teams who were still level to determine their final rankings. If this procedure did not lead to a decision, criteria 5 to 9 would apply;
Superior goal difference in all group matches;
Higher number of goals scored in all group matches;
If only two teams had the same number of points, and they were tied according to criteria 1–6 after having met in the last round of the group stage, their ranking would be determined by a penalty shoot-out. (This criterion would not be used if more than two teams had the same number of points.);
Fair play conduct (1 point for a single yellow card, 3 points for a red card as a consequence of two yellow cards, 3 points for a direct red card);
Position in the OCAF national team coefficient ranking system.

The four best third-placed teams were determined according to the following criteria:^[2]

Higher number of points obtained;
Superior goal difference;
Higher number of goals scored;
Fair play conduct;
Position in the OCAF national team coefficient ranking system.

Group A

Pos	Teamv · d · e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Waticania (A)	3	2	0	1	2	1	+1	6	Advance to knockout phase
2	Kimmystan (H, A)	3	2	0	1	3	3	0	6
3	Ivanotia (A)	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4
4	Aurävaan (E)	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1	Eliminated

Source:
(A) Advance to a further round; (E) Eliminated; (H) Host.

2 September 2016 (2016-09-02) 21:00 v	Kimmystan	2 - 1	Aurävaan	Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika
				Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika

3 September 2016 (2016-09-03) 15:00 v	Waticania	1-0	Ivanotia	Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika
				Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika

6 September 2016 (2016-09-06) 15:00 v	Aurävaan	1-1	Ivanotia	Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika
				Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika

6 September 2016 (2016-09-06) 21:00 v	Kimmystan	1-0	Waticania	Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika
				Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika

9 September 2016 (2016-09-09) 15:00 v	Waticania	1-0	Aurävaan	Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika
				Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika

9 September 2016 (2016-09-09) 21:00 v	Ivanotia	2-0	Kimmystan	Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika
				Fjordvika Stadium, Fjordvika