1996 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Explained

See main article: 1996 Fed Cup.

The Europe/Africa Zone was one of three zones of regional competition in the 1996 Fed Cup.

Group I

• Venue: La Manga Club, Murcia, Spain (outdoor clay)
• Date: 22–24 April

The sixteen teams were divided into four pools of four teams. The top teams of each pool play-off in a two-round knockout stage to decide which nation progresses to World Group II play-offs. Nations finishing in the bottom place in each pool were relegated to Europe/Africa Zone Group II for 1997.

Knockout stage

See main article: 1996 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I – Knockout Stage.

• and advanced to World Group II Play-offs.^{[1] [2]}
• , , and relegated to Group II in 1997.^{[3] [4] [5] [6]}

Group II

• Venue: Ramat HaSharon, Israel (outdoor hard)
• Date: 25–30 March

The nineteen teams were divided into three pools of five and one pool of four. The top two teams from each pool then moved on to the play-off stage of the competition. The four teams that won one match from the play-off stage would advance to Group I for 1997.

Play-offs

See main article: 1996 Fed Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group II – Play-offs.

Winning Team	Score	Losing Team
	2–1
	2–1
	3–0
	3–0

• , , and promoted to Europe/Africa Group I in 1997.^{[7] [8] [9] [10]}

See also

• Fed Cup structure

References

• Fed Cup Profile, Russia
• Fed Cup Profile, Belarus
• Fed Cup Profile, Slovenia
• Fed Cup Profile, Italy
• Fed Cup Profile, Sweden
• Fed Cup Profile, Latvia
• Fed Cup Profile, Switzerland
• Fed Cup Profile, Croatia
• Fed Cup Profile, Georgia
• Fed Cup Profile, Romania
• Fed Cup Profile, Hungary
• Fed Cup Profile, Greece
• Fed Cup Profile, Poland
• Fed Cup Profile, Lithuania
• Fed Cup Profile, Botswana
• Fed Cup Profile, Finland
• Fed Cup Profile, Turkey
• Fed Cup Profile, Tunisia
• Fed Cup Profile, Liechtenstein
• Fed Cup Profile, Israel
• Fed Cup Profile, Luxembourg
• Fed Cup Profile, Estonia
• Fed Cup Profile, Zimbabwe
• Fed Cup Profile, Ukraine
• Fed Cup Profile, Denmark
• Fed Cup Profile, Ireland
• Fed Cup Profile, Malta

External links

• Fed Cup website

Notes and References

1. News: Switzerland v Indonesia. fedcup.com.
2. News: Croatia v Chile. fedcup.com.
3. News: Great Britain v Lithuania. fedcup.com.
4. News: Bosnia and Herzegovina v Norway. fedcup.com.
5. News: Yugoslavia v Algeria. fedcup.com.
6. News: Portugal v Ethiopia. fedcup.com.
7. News: Poland v Hungary. fedcup.com.
8. News: Finland v Belarus. fedcup.com.
9. News: Israel v Georgia. fedcup.com.
10. News: Ukraine v Sweden. fedcup.com.