(Universiade Sports Lab) There are 32 football teams of 16 Men’s and 16 Women’s from 21 countries for this 2015 Summer Universiade. Thw games will take place from 2nd to 13th July 2015 at eight playgrounds such as Naju Public Stadium, Honam University Football Field, Gochang Public Stadium, Boseong Public Stadium, Jeongeup Public Stadium, Yeonggwang Sportium Football Field, Mokpo Main International Football Center, Mokpo International Football Center Secondary Stadium. Along with Women’s Handball game, the South and North Korea Women’s Football teams will attend the competition together.
Football is a sport played between two teams of eleven players. The game is played on a rectangular field of grass or green artificial turf, with a goal in the middle of each of the short ends. The object of the game is to score by driving the ball into the opposing goal. The goalkeepers are the only players allowed to touch the ball with their hands or arms, while the field players typically use their feet to kick the ball. The origin of football can be found in every corner of geography and history. Long before our era, many cultures played a certain kind of ball game.
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Contemporary football as we know it today traces back to England in the 1900s, when rugby football and association football branched off on their different courses. From there on, football experienced an increasing professionalisation and popularity first in Europe and later all over the world. However, it was not until 1966 in Galicia that football was included into the programme of FISU. At the Summer Universiade in 1979 in Mexico City, football was included as an optional sport and twenty-four teams competed in the tournament.
Three years later, FISU staged the final edition of the FISU World University Football Championships, to have football then included as a compulsory sport at the Summer Universiade in 1985 in Kobe (JPN). In 1993, university football was opened for women and Buffalo hosted the first edition of the FISU women’s football tournament. By the time of the Universiade in Beijing in 2001, the Executive Committee of FISU decided to increase the number of women’s teams from 8 to 16, equalling the number of men’s teams. (Universiade Sports Lab, Source: gwangju2015.com, fisu.net)
[ Competition outlines ]
ㅇ Competition Schedule : 2nd – 13th July, 2015 (12 days)
ㅇ Medal event : 2 events (men and women)
ㅇ Participant : 896 athletes from 32 teams of 21 countries ( 320 men athletes, 320 women athletes, 256 TOs)
ㅇ Competition venues : Naju Public Stadium, Honam University Football Field, Gochang Public Stadium, Boseong Public Stadium, Jeongeup Public Stadium, Yeonggwang Sportium Football Field, Mokpo Main International Football Center, Mokpo International Football Center Secondary Stadium
ㅇ Training venues : Boramae Football Park, Gwangju City Officials Training Institute Football Field, Gwangju Institute of Science & Technology Football Field
ㅇ Competition rules
– Preliminary match : League in sub-group ( four sub-groups with four teams men’s and women’s each)
– Qualification match : play-off (Ranked match and final)
ㅇ Facilitates :
– four natural floodlit grass pitches must be provided to full international standards and dimensions complying with FIFA Regulations (men’s and women’s each)
– Two of the pitches to be designated for finals/semi-finals and located within a stadium
ㅇ Test Event : Done (2014 International Selected Univeristy Invitation Football Games)
ㅇ Competition Administrator
– FISU TD : James ELLIS, Andrey VLASOV
– Competition Coordinator : Cho Yonghwan
– Competition Manager : Cheong Ssangok, Cheong Chanjoon, Koh Younghoon, Moon Misook, Lee Jihyun, Seong Nakwon
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