Monday, September 30, 2013

New national cup format

The cup will have a new format as from now.
The 130 best teams of each league (Top 1, Div 2 and Div 3 except the 2 teams qualified for Elite cup), will participate in the National cup. 128 teams, grouped in 16 groups of 8 teams (single legs). The winners of each group is qualified for the last 16 round and so on.
So, each team will play between 7 and 11 cup games

The remanining teams, limited to 1024, will join the Federation cup. 32 groups of 8 teams for all leagues except France and Italy (128 groups of 8 teams), with single legs.
Winners of each groups qualified for last 32, or last 128 (France and Italy).

So, each teams will play between 7 and 12 (14 in France and Italy) cup games

- The french non-eligible teams will get some money to make it up for lost income.
- Income for National Cup will be higher than for Federation cup