FIFA Invitational Tournament

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The FIFA Invitational Tournament was a tournament held in Yr53 containing international teams from around the world. Although held as an informal friendly event, it was founded to protest the handing of the Yr64 World Cup to Chile, and the surrounding bribery allegations of the successful host bid. Entries were later open to teams from South America and Asia, in a bid to lure the bigger teams to the protest. Eventually, 24 teams entered the tournament.

Pre-Tournament

Most of the entries were given to teams that had previous football history and success. Initially the entries were sent to teams in Europe, Asia, and Africa, since teams from the Americas were initially not interested in breaking away from FIFA. However, the need for a breakaway organization faded as the qualifiers for the World Cup approached, so entries opened up for all teams of all organizations.

Europe, being the most competitive continent, initially sent out invitations to 12 teams. Germany, Netherlands, Portugal, France, Italy, Spain, England, and Czech Republic immediately accepted. Belgium initially turned it down, but later accepted. Had they turned it down, Greece was drafted as their replacement. Poland was given an invitation, but they turned it down, owing to resting their players during the summer of Yr53. Invitations were later given out to Switzerland, Scotland, and Croatia. Meanwhile, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Ecuador all accepted from South America, as did Mexico and the United States from North America. From Asia, South Korea, Australia, China and New Zealand were invited. North Korea was not invited as they had a strict policy on friendlies, and often played below their own talent level. South Africa and Cameroon, the only African invitees, accepted.

Matches

First Round

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Portugal Portugal.png 3-2 South Africa.png South Africa 2-1 1-1
Brazil Brazil.png 4-1 Australia.png Australia 3-1 1-1
Netherlands Netherlands.png 5-0 Cameroon.png Cameroon 4-0 1-0
Germany Germany.png 6-1 New Zealand.png New Zealand 3-0 3-1
Argentina Argentina.png 1-2 South Korea.png South Korea 1-1 0-1
Belgium Belgium.png 4-1 China.png China 1-1 3-0
Spain Spain.png 2-3 Ecuador.png Ecuador 0-3 2-0
England England.png 2-2a Croatia.png Croatia 1-0 1-2
Czech Republic Czech Republic.png 5-4 Mexico.png Mexico 4-1 1-3
Uruguay Uruguay.png 2-5 Scotland.png Scotland 2-2 0-3
France France.png 5-2 USA.png United States 3-1 2-1
Italy Italy.png 2-3 Switzerland.png Switzerland 1-1 1-2

Play-In Round One

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Argentina Argentina.png 6-2 New Zealand.png New Zealand 3-1 3-1
Uruguay Uruguay.png 1-4 South Korea.png South Korea 0-2 1-2
Italy Italy.png 3-2 China.png China 2-1 1-1
Spain Spain.png 1-5 Australia.png Australia 0-3 1-2
England England.png 4-2 Cameroon.png Cameroon 0-1 4-1
United States USA.png 5e-4 Mexico.png Mexico 2-2 2-2

Play-In Round Two

Team 1 Team 2
Argentina Argentina.png 2-3 England.png England
England England.png 1-1 Australia.png Australia
Australia Australia.png 2-2 Argentina.png Argentina
Italy Italy.png 3-1 USA.png United States
United States USA.png 1-2 South Africa.png South Africa
South Africa South Africa.png n/a[1] Italy.png Italy
  1. Not held as both teams were confirmed in the next round at that point in the competition.

Round of 16

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Germany Germany.png 6-3 South Africa.png South Africa 3-2 3-1
Netherlands Netherlands.png 2-4 Australia.png Australia 1-2 1-2
Belgium Belgium.png 3-3a South Korea.png South Korea 1-1 2-2
Brazil Brazil.png 5-1 Croatia.png Croatia 4-0 1-1
Portugal Portugal.png 4-3 Switzerland.png Switzerland 2-1 2-2
France France.png 5-4 Ecuador.png Ecuador 4-1 1-3
Italy Italy.png 2-4 Scotland.png Scotland 1-3 1-1
England England.png 1-3 Czech Republic.png Czech Republic 1-3 0-0

Quarterfinals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Germany Germany.png 6-3 Australia.png Australia 3-2 3-1
Brazil Brazil.png 5-2 South Korea.png South Korea 3-0 2-2
Portugal Portugal.png 1-2 Scotland.png Scotland 1-1 0-1
France France.png 3-5 Czech Republic.png Czech Republic 1-4 2-1

Semi Finals

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st Leg 2nd Leg
Germany Germany.png 6-1 Scotland.png Scotland 3-1 3-0
Brazil Brazil.png 3-5e Czech Republic.png Czech Republic 1-2 2-1

Finals

Team 1 Team 2
Germany Germany.png 1p-1 Czech Republic.png Czech Republic
  • GER NYYNYY - 4
  • CZE NYYYNN - 3