Lightning tournament opening and seedings
- Saturday, July 02 2011 @ 05:30 am ACST
- Contributed by: Brett Northey
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The Australian Football League has released the draw and details of the 2011 AFL International Cup. The fourth Cup will feature 18 men's sides and 5 women's sides. Here we will focus on the man, and detail the women's schedule in a later article.
The men's competition will see the teams seeded from 1 to 18 and then sorted into 6 approximately even pools for a lightning tournament in the style of the 2011 NAB AFL Cup (pre-season). On the opening day the teams will play each of the other two members of their pool in games of 2 x 15 minute halves (10 min half-time break). The result will be 6 pools of 3 sorted teams. The top 2 from each will go through to Division 1 and the bottom side from each will form Division 2. Hence there will be 12 in Div 1 and 6 in Div 2.
The seedings are:
Country | Rank |
---|---|
PNG | 1 |
New Zealand | 2 |
South Africa | 3 |
Ireland | 4 |
Nauru | 5 |
Canada | 6 |
USA | 7 |
Japan | 8 |
GB | 9 |
Denmark | 10 |
Sweden | 11 |
Tonga* | 12 |
Peace | 13 |
Fiji* | 14 |
East Timor* | 15 |
China | 16 |
India | 17 |
France* | 18 |
* Did not compete IC08