How can the competition system and rules of the European Cup ensure fair competition? UEFA issued new rules to increase punishment for technical and malicious fouls

CCTV5 Program List January 2, 2024 - The European Cup is a grand event of European football, held every four years, bringing together the strongest national teams in Europe and demonstrating the level and style of European football. In order to ensure fair competition and good order in the European Cup, UEFA has formulated a series of competition systems and rules

CCTV5 Program List January 2, 2024 - The European Cup is a grand event of European football, held every four years, bringing together the strongest national teams in Europe and demonstrating the level and style of European football. In order to ensure fair competition and good order in the European Cup, UEFA has formulated a series of competition systems and rules to restrict and supervise the participating teams and players. This article will introduce the main contents of the competition system and rules of the European Cup, as well as the new rules issued by UEFA to deal with the epidemic situation of the new championship and protect the safety of players.

The competition system of the European Cup is divided into two stages: the preliminary round and the final round. The preliminaries are attended by 55 member associations of UEFA. Except that the host country can directly advance to the final circle, the other 54 associations are divided into 10 groups. Each group has a double round robin point contest. A total of 24 teams from the top two teams of each group and the third team of the four best groups enter the final circle. The final circle is divided into six groups by 24 teams. Each group has a single round robin point match. A total of 16 teams from the top two teams and the third of the four best teams of each group enter the knockout phase. The knockout phase includes the eighth finals, quarter finals, semi-finals and finals. The single game knockout system is adopted. If the team is tied within 90 minutes, a 30 minute overtime game will be played, If the winner is still not decided in overtime, a penalty shoot out will be held. The winner of the European Cup will win the Delaunay Cup, a trophy named by Henry Delaunay, one of the founders of UEFA, which has been awarded to the champion team of the European Cup since 1960.

The rules of the European Cup mainly involve the time of the game, the qualification of players, the color of the jersey, the accumulation of red and yellow cards, the punishment of technical fouls, and the punishment of malicious fouls. The following are some of the rules of the European Cup:

• Time of the match: The time of the European Cup is 90 minutes, divided into 45 minutes in the first half and 45 minutes in the second half, and 15 minutes in the middle. According to the actual situation of the game, the referee may increase the time for making up time as appropriate. If the game is not won or lost within 90 minutes, a 30 minute overtime game will be played, with 15 minutes in each half of the game and 1 minute at half-time. If the winner is still not determined in overtime, a penalty shoot out will be conducted. Each team will take turns to shoot 5 penalty shots. If the winner is still not determined, continue to take turns to shoot penalty shots until one team scores one more goal.
• Qualification of players: The players participating in the European Cup must have the nationality of UEFA member associations and have not participated in official competitions on behalf of other national teams. Each team can register 26 players, including 3 goalkeepers. Each game can register 23 players, including 2 goalkeepers. Five substitutions can be made in each match, and the sixth substitution can be made in case of overtime. If a goalkeeper is unable to continue playing due to injury or red card, and the team has used up the replacement quota, another goalkeeper can be replaced.
• Color of jersey: teams participating in the European Cup must prepare two sets of jerseys in different colors, one for home and one for away. Before the game, the home team has the right to choose to wear the home team jersey, while the visiting team must choose the away team jersey whose color is obviously different from the home team's jersey. If the colors of the two teams' jerseys are still likely to cause confusion, UEFA will designate a team to replace the jerseys. The color of goalkeeper's jersey must be clearly different from that of all players.
• Accumulation of red and yellow cards: If a player in the European Cup commits a foul in the game, the referee may show a yellow card or a red card. A yellow card is a warning, and a red card is a punishment. If a player accumulates two yellow cards in a game, it will automatically become a red card. The player must leave the field immediately and cannot be replaced by other players. If a player is shown a red card directly, he must also leave the field immediately and cannot be replaced by other players. The player who is sent off will be automatically suspended for one game. If his foul is considered serious, he may be suspended for more games. If a player accumulates two yellow cards in the group stage, he will be suspended for one game; if a player accumulates three yellow cards in the knockout stage, he will be suspended for one game. The yellow card record of all players will be cleared after the group game, but the red card record will be kept until the end of the game.
• Judgment of technical foul: If a player in the European Cup commits a technical foul in the game, he may be awarded a free kick, penalty kick, indirect free kick or goal kick by the referee. Technical fouls include handball, offside, offensive fouls, and defensive fouls. In order to improve the fairness and accuracy of the match, UEFA introduced the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system to assist the referee in judging some key technical fouls, such as goal effectiveness, penalty, red card presentation and identity misjudgment.

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