The BRICS U-17 Football Cup is a U-17 Football tournament played among teams of five BRICS countries - economic block formed by

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and

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. The first historic edition was played in

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in 2016 on the occasion of the

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that was held in

. The Tournament will take place once every year with 10-day and following the lines of the tournaments under-17

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. Each edition will be held in a BRICS nation. On 1 October 2016 The Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi, unveiled the Trophy for the 2016 BRICS U-17 Football Tournament in London. Brics Football Cup was not held in 2017 during the Xiamen Summit, but the tournament come back for the second edition for

Johannesburg Summit Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Dem ...

, 2018. In this edition Women's U-17 teams of respective countries competed for the cup.

History

Format

On the very first tournament, held in

a round-robin stage was played. From this round, 1st and 2nd teams of points table entered final and on the other hand 3rd and 4th teams of points table entered 3rd place game respectively. 5th team was directly eliminated after first round. In the second edition, only round-robin stage was played in

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. The teams were given awards according to their places in points table after round-robin stage.

Teams

Results

:‡ ''There was no knock-out match played, the tournament was played as league tournament, team with highest point won the cup, in this case Brazil.''

Team performance

References

External links

* BRICS Recurring sporting events established in 2016 {{footy-competition-stub