CFU Open Winter Cup season 2018 will start on February 4. This year will take part not only professional but also amateur teams at the tournament which were divided into three groups.
Representatives of the Russian second division will play at the tournament besides eight teams of the CFU Premier-League championship: FC "Sokol" Saratov (zone "Center") and FC "Anzhi-2" Makhachkala (zone "South"), as well as three amateur clubs of Crimea.
"A" group: "Ocean" (Kerch), "Kafa" (Feodosiya), "Inkomsport-Avangard" (Yalta) and SK CFU (Simferopol).
"B" group includes: FC "Sevastopol", "Krymteplitsa" (Molodezhnoe), "Kyzyltash" (Bakhchysaray), "Rubin Yalta" and "Kamo" (Sevastopol).
"C" group structure: FC "Yevpatoriya", "TSK-Tavriya" (Simferopol), "Sokol" (Saratov) and "Anzhi-2" (Makhachkala).
Matches of the tournament will take place at several stadiums of the peninsula: in Kerch (the stadium n.a. the 50th anniversary of October), Kuibyshevo (Sports complex "Inkomsport"), Novopavlovka (sports complex "Skif") and in Yevpatoriya (sports complex "Arena- Crimea").
Also, one duel will be held in Simferopol district at the stadium "Kombinat "Krymteplitsa".
Teams that will gain the lead at groups, will be includes to the semi-finals. The best of the teams taking the second place in the groups will also take part at games of the 1/2 finals. Pairs of semi-final matches will decide by drawing.
Matches of the semi-finals will be held on February 20, and the final meeting will be held on February 23. Let us note that the place and time of the matches can change during the competition because the CFU Open Winter Cup takes place during the team’s training sessions.
You can find the calendar of the CFU Open Winter Cup-2018 at special section of our site.