Sealand Cup IX

Sealand Cup IX

Tournament details
Season(s)	21 (12th Sealand)
Teams	12
Final positions
Champions	EFC Gelderland (1st title)
Runner-up	HetBeste
Semi-finalists	Sturky Team GeenStijl
Tournament statistics
Matches played	24
Goals scored	113 (4.71 per match)
Top scorer	Maciej Solecki (7 goals)
← VIII	X →

Sealand Cup IX, also known as Sealandcup IX, was the ninth edition of the Sealand Cup, the friendly competition of the Sealand federation and was held in (Dutch) season 21. The final was held at De Radstake on 27 June 2007, where EFC Gelderland defeated HetBeste 1–0. Defending champions Kings Squad were eliminated in the group stage.

Participating teams

12 teams participated in Sealand Cup IX, including only one of the previous champions; title holder Kings Squad. I.P. United made their début. Sturky became the first team to participate in seven Sealand Cups, only missing the second and sixth edition.

Team Manager Participation Best Result Atletico Chocomel R0wan 2nd Fourth Place (VII) EFC Gelderland Gelderheld 4th Runner-Up (III) FC Sammie de Cavia Sammiedecavia 4th Quarterfinals (IV) HetBeste Lightsun 5th Semi-Finals (VI) I.P. United RLHT-Im3 1st Début JBU Winterswijk Buul_ 5th Quarterfinals (VI) Kings Squad -Marrc- 4th Champion (VII, VIII) Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon (Note) Voorzitter 4th Group Stage (V, VII, VIII) Nat'Korima Koron Malarkan 2nd Quarterfinals (VI) Sturky Sturky 7th Runner-Up (VIII) SV Spakenburg Jan-jf 2nd Semi-Finals (VIII) Team GeenStijl BakkerM 6th Quarterfinals (VIII)

Note: Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon participated for the first time under that name. Their previous three appeareances were as De Houtense Boys.

Round and Draw Dates

Phase	Round	Draw date	Match dates
Group Stage	Matchday 1	16 May 2007	23 May 2007 (Week 9)
	Matchday 2		30 May 2007 (Week 10)
	Matchday 3		6 June 2007 (Week 11)
Knockout Stage	Quarter-Finals		13 June 2007 (Week 12)
	Semi-Finals	13 June 2007	20 June 2007 (Week 13)
	Final		27 June 2007 (Week 14)

The teams were drawn at random into three groups, with each team playing one or two home matches.

Group Stage

The Group Stage of the ninth Sealand Cup ran from 23 May to 6 June 2007.

Format

The teams in each group played each other in a single round-robin format, playing the other teams in the group once (at home or away). Each team earned 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw and 0 points for a loss. The top-two teams of each group and the two best third-placed teams advanced to the quarterfinals. Teams that did not challenge their opponent or accept their opponent's challenge were penalized with an automatic defeat.

Group A

Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
EFC Gelderland	3	2	1	0	14	4	+ 10	7
Sturky	3	2	1	0	8	3	+ 5	7
Nat'Korima Koron	3	1	0	2	4	8	– 4	3
FC Sammie de Cavia	3	0	0	3	2	13	– 11	0

23 May 2007 (17:10)	Nat'Korima Koron	1 - 2	Sturky	Eska Alye'Tula
		(126063824)

23 May 2007 (17:10)	FC Sammie de Cavia	1 - 7	EFC Gelderland	de Tudorel Udreskoe Arena
		(126069134)

30 May 2007 (17:10)	EFC Gelderland	6 - 2	Nat'Korima Koron	De Trots
		(126534348)

30 May 2007 (17:10)	Sturky	5 - 1	FC Sammie de Cavia	Sturky Arena
		(126305057)

6 June 2007 (17:10)	Sturky	1 - 1	EFC Gelderland	Sturky Arena
		(126674350)

6 June 2007 (17:10)	FC Sammie de Cavia	0 - 1	Nat'Korima Koron	de Tudorel Udreskoe Arena
		(126611065)

Group B

Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Atletico Chocomel	3	3	0	0	22	0	+ 22	9
SV Spakenburg	3	1	0	2	7	9	– 2	3
Kings Squad	3	1	0	2	4	12	– 8	3
JBU Winterswijk	3	1	0	2	4	16	– 12	3

23 May 2007 (17:05)	Kings Squad	0 - 7	Atletico Chocomel	Kings Castle
		(126028058)

23 May 2007 (17:10)	JBU Winterswijk	4 - 2	SV Spakenburg	La Hoja del Billar
		(126096618)

30 May 2007 (17:05)	SV Spakenburg	5 - 0	Kings Squad	De Westmaat
		(126308642)

30 May 2007 (17:05)	Atletico Chocomel	10 - 0	JBU Winterswijk	Nutricia
		(126307227)

6 June 2007 (17:05)	Atletico Chocomel	5 - 0	SV Spakenburg	Nutricia
		(126637282)

6 June 2007 (17:05)	JBU Winterswijk	0 - 4	Kings Squad	La Hoja del Billar
		(126580930)

Group C

Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Team GeenStijl	3	3	0	0	17	1	+ 16	9
M.S. Babylon	3	2	0	1	1	9	– 8	6
HetBeste	3	1	0	2	4	4	± 0	3
I.P. United	3	0	0	3	0	8	– 8	0

23 May 2007 (17:10)	Team GeenStijl	9 - 0	Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon	GeenStijl Tempel
		(126137466)

23 May 2007 (17:10)	I.P. United	0 - 3	HetBeste	De Pijnenborg
		(126078715)

30 May 2007 (17:05)	Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon	1 - 0	I.P. United	Seventh Temple of Marduk
		(126316169)

30 May 2007 (17:10)	HetBeste	1 - 4	Team GeenStijl	La Via Nostra
		(126505491)

6 June 2007 (17:10)	I.P. United	0 - 4	Team GeenStijl	De Pijnenborg
		(126711001)

	Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon	W - L Awarded	HetBeste
		(N/A)

Ranking of third-placed teams

Team	MP	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
HetBeste (C)	3	1	0	2	4	4	± 0	3
Nat'Korima Koron (A)	3	1	0	2	4	8	– 4	3
Kings Squad (B)	3	1	0	2	4	12	– 8	3

Note: HetBeste lost their last group match by walk-over. No official score was awarded, but as they qualified for the knockout stage, it is acceptable to state that the de facto result of the match was at most a 7–0 loss.

Knockout Stage

The next stage of the tournament was the Knockout Stage. Eight teams qualified for this stage (the group winners and runners-up from all four groups, accompanied by the two best third-placed teams). In the quarterfinals, the winner of Group A would face the runner-up of Group C and the runners-up of Group A and Group B would face each other. The winners of Group B and C would face the best third-placed teams, with teams from the same group being kept apart. For the semi-finals, the draw was done at random. In the quarterfinals, the group winners and the runner-up of Group A had home advantage. The semi-finals and final were played at a neutral venue, with De Radstake, the home stadium of Achterhoek Admirals, being selected as host of the final.

Matchups in the Quarterfinals

Runners-up qualified			B1 vs.	C1 vs.
A	B		A3	B3
A		C	C3	A3
	B	C	C3	B3

Bracket

Quarterfinals

Semi-Finals

Final

A1

EFC Gelderland

5

C2

Mesopotamian Sp. Babylon

0

A1

EFC Gelderland

6

C1

Team GeenStijl

0

C1

Team GeenStijl

7

A3

Nat'Korima Koron

0

A1

EFC Gelderland

1

C3

HetBeste

0

B1

Atletico Chocomel

0

C3

HetBeste

2

C3

HetBeste (p.s.o.)

14

A2

Sturky

12

A2

Sturky

2

B2

SV Spakenburg

1

Quarterfinals

13 June 2007 (17:05)	EFC Gelderland	5 - 0	Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon	De Trots
		(127017256)

13 June 2007 (17:10)	Atletico Chocomel	0 - 2	HetBeste	Nutricia
		(126922289)

13 June 2007 (17:10)	Team GeenStijl	7 - 0	Nat'Korima Koron	GeenStijl Tempel
		(126982285)

13 June 2007 (17:10)	Sturky	2 - 1	SV Spakenburg	Sturky Arena
		(126880423)

Semi-Finals

20 June 2007 (17:10)	EFC Gelderland	6 - 0	Team GeenStijl	Savoie libre (Savoie U-20)
		(127189177)

20 June 2007 (17:10)	HetBeste	1 - 1 a.e.t.	Sturky	Thuru Temple (FC Thuru)
		(127123924)
		Penalties
		4 – 2

Final

27 June 2007 (17:10)	EFC Gelderland	1 - 0	HetBeste	De Radstake (Achterhoek Admirals) Attendance: 3425
	Faur    39'	(127432250)

Sealand Cup IX Champion
EFC Gelderland First title Tim van Aken, Stephen Bastiaensen, Gerard Biniek, William Buckley, Vincas Dediochinas, Alex Faas, Alexandru Faur, Maikel Fuchs, David Carlos García, Sven Olav Huits, Walter Humer, Subri bin Ibrahim, Dardo Krupoviesa, Carlo Luongo, Irfan Bakti bin Othman, Rob Plouvier, Juan van der Veer, Jakob Wilke, Orlando van der Wolff, Clarence van der Woude

Top Goalscorers

Maciej Solecki (Team GeenStijl) became top scorer of the tournament with seven goals. In total, 113 goals were scored by 61 different players.

Rank	Name	Team	Goals
1	Maciej Solecki	Team GeenStijl	7
2	Ed van 't Schip	Atletico Chocomel	6
	Anton Vandenthoren	Team GeenStijl
4	Filip Hemmelder	Atletico Chocomel	5
	Juan van der Veer	EFC Gelderland
6	Alexandru Faur	EFC Gelderland	4
	Carlo Luongo	EFC Gelderland

Seven hat-tricks were scored during the tournament:

Player (goals)	Team	Goals scored	Result	Opponent	Round
Maciej Solecki (5)	Team GeenStijl	2–0, 5–0, 6–0, 8–0, 9–0	9–0	Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon	Group Stage (C)
Filip Hemmelder	Atletico Chocomel	2–0, 4–0, 5–0	10–0	JBU Winterswijk	Group Stage (B)
Ed van 't Schip (4)	Atletico Chocomel	3–0, 7–0, 8–0, 9–0	10–0	JBU Winterswijk	Group Stage (B)
Janne Valo	Atletico Chocomel	2–0, 3–0, 5–0	5–0	SV Spakenburg	Group Stage (B)
Juan van der Veer	EFC Gelderland	2–0, 3–0, 5–0	5–0	Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon	Quarterfinals
Anton Vandenthoren	Team GeenStijl	1–0, 4–0, 6–0	7–0	Nat'Korima Koron	Quarterfinals
Carlo Luongo	EFC Gelderland	1–0, 2–0, 4–0	6–0	Team GeenStijl	Semi-Finals

Disciplinary

Card	Number
Red card (direct)	1
Red card (second yellow)	2
Yellow card	28

No official fair play-award was given. Sturky (no cards in five matches) had the best disciplinary record.

Trivia

• The total attendance was 45,802 - an average of 1,908 per match.
• The match with the highest attendance was the final between EFC Gelderland and HetBeste (3,425).
• The match with the lowest attendance was the quarterfinal match between EFC Gelderland and Mesopotamian Sportsquad Babylon (1,048).
• The overall Sealand Cup attendance surpassed 400,000 visitors (during the semi-finals).

• Rindert van de Hoek (Kings Squad) scored the 1200th Sealand Cup goal in the Group B match against JBU Winterswijk.
• Anne van Westering (Sturky) became the first player to score in five different Sealand Cups

• The highest ratings were achieved by HetBeste (255 Hatstats) in their quarterfinal against Atletico Chocomel.
• The highest-rated match was the final (433 Hatstats) between EFC Gelderland (231) and HetBeste (202).