2012 Homeless World Cup Explained

The Homeless World Cup is a social organization with the goal of ending homelessness through the sport of football. The organization hopes that engaging homeless people in football will encourage them to change their own lives and develop solutions to worldwide homelessness. The organization puts together an annual football tournament where teams of homeless people from each country compete.

The tenth edition of the Homeless World Cup annual football tournament was hosted by Mexico City in October 2012. The winner of men's Homeless World Cup was Chile.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Tournament details

• The winning team gets 3 points. The losing team gets zero points. If a match ends in a draw, it is decided by sudden-death penalty shootout and the winning team gets three points and the losing team gets one point.
• Games are 14 minutes long, in two seven-minute halves.
• The field is 22m (long) x 16m (wide).

2012 Homeless World Cup, Mexico City

Tourney Name:	Homeless World Cup
Year:	2012
Size:	150px
City:	Mexico City
Country:	Mexico
Dates:	6–14 October
Cities:	1

There are 100 million^[5] homeless people in our world today. This is a global issue that affects every nation.

Group stage

Group A

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Mexico	5	5	0	0	0	54	15
South Africa	5	3	0	1	0	38	10
Haiti	5	3	0	1	0	30	10
Wales	5	2	0	1	0	26	7
Denmark	5	2	0	0	1	35	6
Canada	5	0	0	0	0	7	0

Group B

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Costa Rica	5	5	0	1	0	38	16
Ireland	5	4	0	1	1	33	13
Norway	5	3	0	0	0	30	9
Argentina	5	2	0	0	1	22	6
Cambodia	5	1	0	0	0	15	3
Guatemala	5	0	0	0	0	17	0

Group C

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Bosnia & Herzegovina	4	4	1	0	1	27	11
Poland	4	3	0	0	0	30	9
Ukraine	4	2	0	2	1	28	8
Finland	4	1	0	0	0	10	3
Switzerland	4	0	0	0	0	10	0

Group D

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Indonesia	4	3	0	0	0	23	9
Scotland	4	2	0	3	1	20	9
Lithuania	4	3	1	0	0	20	8
Peru	4	2	0	0	0	19	6
Greece	4	0	0	1	0	9	1

Group E

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Russia	5	5	0	0	0	32	15
Bulgaria	5	4	0	1	0	38	13
England	5	3	0	1	0	27	10
Hong Kong	5	2	0	0	0	24	6
France	5	1	0	0	1	16	3
Germany	5	0	0	2	0	19	2

Group F

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Chile	3	3	0	0	0	35	9
Czech Republic	5	3	0	0	0	25	9
Hungary	5	2	0	0	0	20	6
Italy	5	1	0	1	0	28	4
Morocco	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Morocco withdrew.

Group G

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Portugal	4	4	0	0	0	34	12
Austria	4	3	0	1	0	34	10
Romania	4	2	0	2	0	22	8
Philippines	4	1	0	0	0	19	3
Sweden	4	0	0	0	0	7	0

Group H

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Brazil	4	4	0	0	1	49	12
Netherlands	4	3	0	0	0	37	9
Namibia	4	2	0	1	0	35	7
United States	4	1	0	0	0	13	3
South Korea	4	0	0	0	0	4	0

Secondary Stage

Key to colours in group tables
	Teams that advanced to The Homeless World Cup
	Teams that advanced to The INSP Trophy
	Teams that advanced to The de la Calle a la Cancha Cup
	Teams that advanced to The Fundación Telmex Cup
	Teams that advanced to The Community Cup
	Teams that advanced to The Mexico City Cup

Group A

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Mexico	5	5	0	0	0	49	15
Lithuania	5	4	0	0	1	31	12
Costa Rica	5	2	0	1	2	18	7
Poland	5	2	1	0	2	27	5
England	5	1	0	1	0	11	4
Hungary	5	1	1	0	0	16	2

Group B

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Indonesia	5	5	2	0	0	35	13
Bosnia & Herzegovina	5	4	1	0	0	33	11
Namibia	5	3	1	1	0	34	9
Bulgaria	5	2	0	1	1	32	7
Romania	5	1	0	2	0	15	5
Czech Republic	5	0	0	0	0	22	0

Group C

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Chile	5	5	1	0	0	39	14
Austria	5	3	0	1	1	28	10
Haiti	5	3	1	1	1	33	9
Russia	5	2	0	0	0	14	6
Netherlands	5	2	0	0	4	23	6
Norway	5	0	0	0	1	11	0

Group D

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Brazil	5	5	0	0	0	37	15
Portugal	5	4	1	0	0	34	11
South Africa	5	2	1	1	1	24	6
Ireland	5	2	2	1	0	20	5
Scotland	5	1	1	2	0	15	4
Ukraine	5	1	0	1	1	30	4

Group E

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Argentina	5	5	0	0	0	45	15
Wales	5	3	0	1	0	36	10
Italy	5	3	1	1	0	32	9
Hong Kong	5	3	1	0	0	31	8
France	5	1	0	0	0	27	3
Sweden	5	0	0	0	0	11	0

Group F

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Denmark	5	5	0	0	0	45	15
Peru	5	4	0	0	1	38	12
Philippines	5	3	0	0	0	26	9
Cambodia	5	2	0	0	0	28	6
United States	5	1	0	0	0	19	3
Finland	5	0	0	0	0	13	0

Group G

width=165	Team	width=25		width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25	width=25
Guatemala	6	6	2	0	0	43	16
Greece	6	4	1	1	0	23	12
Canada	6	4	0	0	1	28	12
Germany	6	3	0	2	1	42	11
Morocco	6	2	0	0	0	24	6
Switzerland	6	2	0	0	0	27	6
South Korea	6	0	0	0	1	9	0

Trophy Stage

Qualified teams to play for different trophies:^[6]

width=15%	The Homeless World Cup	width=15%	The Fundación Telmex Cup	width=15%	The Mexico City Cup	width=15%	The de la Calle a la Cancha Cup	width=15%	The Community Cup	width=15%	The INSP Trophy
Austria Brazil Chile Lithuania Mexico Portugal Indonesia Bosnia & Herzegovina	Costa Rica Ireland Namibia Poland Russia South Africa Haiti Bulgaria	Czech Republic England Hungary Netherlands Norway Romania Scotland Ukraine	Argentina Cambodia Denmark Hong Kong Italy Philippines Wales Peru	Canada France Germany Greece Switzerland United States Guatemala Morocco	Finland South Korea Sweden

The Homeless World Cup

Winner

Classification Positions

Winner

Final ranking

^[8]

width=50	Rank	width=175	Team	width=50	Record
	Chile	10–2–0
	Mexico	12–0–1
	Brazil	11–0–1
4	Indonesia	7–2–2
5	Portugal	10–1–1
6	Bosnia & Herzegovina	9–1–2
7	Austria	7–0–5
8	Lithuania	7–1–4
9	Namibia	0–0–0
10	Haiti	0–0–0
11	Russia	0–0–0
12	Costa Rica	0–0–0
13	South Africa	0–0–0
14	Bulgaria	0–0–0
15	Poland	0–0–0
16	Ireland	0–0–0

Record: Wins - Penalty Wins - Losses ^[9]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Homeless World Cup expands to record numbers . uefa.com . uefa.com . 29 November 2011 . 29 October 2012.
2. Web site: Homeless event makes strides in Mexico . https://web.archive.org/web/20121029095445/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/news/newsid=1789838.html . dead . October 29, 2012 . fifa.com . fifa.com . 26 October 2012 . 26 October 2012.
3. Web site: Homeless World Cup ends . uefa.com . uefa.com . 19 October 2012 . 29 October 2012.
4. Web site: Homeless World Cup in Mexico . skynews.com.au . skynews.com.au . 17 October 2012 . 29 October 2012.
5. Web site: IPS news. More than 100 million homeless worldwide. 2012-10-29. https://web.archive.org/web/20120414205035/http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=28086. 2012-04-14. dead.
6. Web site: Beskućnici BiH nastavili "teror" po Meksiku . scsport.ba . scsport.ba . 13 October 2012 . 29 October 2012 . Bosnian.
7. Web site: Chile and Mexico win Homeless World Cup . cbsnews.com . cbsnews.com . 15 October 2012 . 29 October 2012.
8. Web site: Final Rankings 2012 . homelessworldcup.org . homelessworldcup.org . 15 October 2012 . 29 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20121017011354/http://www.homelessworldcup.org/news/overall-rankings-2012 . 2012-10-17 . dead .
9. Web site: Beskućnici BiH ispali u četvrtfinalu . scsport.ba . vijesti.ba . 14 October 2012 . 29 October 2012 . Bosnian.