The WORST Rule In Soccer
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The Worst Rule in All of Soccer.
Welcome to the worst rule in soccer. A scary man once asked, "What's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?" Well what if I told you that your country's World Cup fate could live or die based on a literal coin toss? Well it could...and here's how.
Under current FIFA rules, in the group stage of the World Cup each group contains four teams who all play each other once. Of course three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and zero points for a loss. The two teams with the most points from all of their games go on to the knock out round and the others go home. But what if there is a tie for second place?
Most people know that Goal Difference from all games played is the tie-breaker if points are even. But what if two or more teams and tied on points and goal difference? Then the team who scored the most goals in all of their matches goes ahead.
You may now be wondering, what if there's still a tie? Great question and this is where is gets more interesting. Basically, to break the tie, the group becomes reduced to only the teams that are tied based on the three steps above. There can be a two or three way tie for second. Actually, if all the teams tie all the matches by the same score there would be a four way tie for first place, more on that later.
Let's say there's a two way tie for second. Both beams B and C had the same points, goal difference and goals scored. We would then look at how they did against each other. Which ever team won that game would necessarily have more points, a better goal difference and more goals scored in that (head to head) game and would go forward.
And what if three teams are tied for second place? Let's say team A beat everyone 2-0. They would move on with nine points and a plus 6 goal difference. Now let's say that all of the other games were one-one draws, the table would look like this. Team B, C and D all have two points, a minus two goal difference and two goals scored. To break this tie we remove team A and only look at the three games played between teams B, C and D. Which would make the table look like this. They all still have two points, and now a zero goal difference and two goals scored from their games with each other.
In this case, according to FIFA, the tie is broken by a "Drawing of lots by the FIFA organizing comittee". You heard that right, a drawing of lots, a literal coin toss to determine who goes forward in the World Cup and who goes home.
Actually, if three teams are tied. It's worse than a coin toss chance.
In summary.. GET GUD or shut up!
From the 2018 World Cup there is an additional tiebreaker before drawing of lots: Fair Play Conduct points ( -1pt for yellow card, -3pts for red via 2 yellows, -4pts for direct red card and -5pts for direct red card after getting a yellow earlier). In addition UEFA's EUROs now use their National Coefficient as a last tiebreaker before drawing lots.
Thanks for watching Michael. I saw that away goals and Fair Play points are used to break ties in qualification for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, but I can't find the official book for the actual World Cup for 2018. Where did you find this?
Page 43 of the updated FIFA World Cup 2018 Regulations (downloadable from www.fifa.com/worldcup/organisation/documents/ ). I believe this was not used in 2014 but was used by UEFA in EURO 2016.
Also while Away Goals is normally referred to club competitions (Champions League and Europa League) it is also used in Qualifying stage for World Cups and EUROs (slightly different implementation in each).
Page 27 (above reference) for World Cup Qualifiers mentions Away Goals counting double in a 2 way tie as a 7th tiebreaker before Fair Play Conduct and finally lots
Away Goals rule used in EUROs too during Qualifying stage. Regulations avaiable at bottom of this page: www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/news/newsid=2039404.html
Nice, thanks for pulling the reference. (I couldn't find it) I have a memory of Fair Play being a later-on tie breaker (maybe in South Africa?) but it wasn't in Brazil.
Well I'm glad FIFA listened to this video and changed the rules (and so quickly). This takes the chances of drawing lots from once in a generation to twice in a millennium.
The past week Japan became the first team ever to advance from group stage, BY FAIRPLAY
@Ninety Five its fucking ridiculus, fair play is dumb
Now they've implemented amount of yellow/red cards as a tie breaker
Yeah but what if that's a tie also
@@nassimb7151 club/country coefficient (in some competitions only) then the drawing of lots
@@nassimb7151 although very unlikely Looph has answered it below. in last world cup Japan got out of the group because less cards over an African country. red is three yellow is 1
They should play a match on fifa video game where they all control their own player so and of there is more than 2 then there should be a fifa league or tournament and if there is a tie in that then it's next goal wins until a team scores a goal.
LOL, Austria-Belize-Chad-Djibouti sounds like a very exciting WC group !
no
sanmarino - Belize - botan - Djibouti
is better
miskagro no goals would be scored 😂
ABCD
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Even watching the paint dry would be more interesting
Apart from the fairplay points that many have mentioned, some tournaments also play a penalty shootout if 2 teams are tied and they meet on the last matchday
2018 World Cup (as other people already commented), Fair Play rule is added, and UEFA used a Coefficient rule at the 2016 EUROs. Basically, a team which has higher coefficient (that means, a team which is on a higher spot in the rankings) advances and goes through.
What judges if the team has a higher score in the rankings tho
@@shalyfemusic what do you mean? Also damn, didn't expect someone to reply to a two year old comment, hahah
And we saw a new rule come into play this year with Japan and Senegal. Japan advanced on having fewer bookings.
For three-way tie, you could totally have a penalty shoot-out between three teams. Each team gets 10 shots, five against each opponent, and scores 2 points for each goal scores, and -1 for each goal conceded, with sudden death if necessary.
Before the coin toss there's the Fairplay-rule. Per game any player could "earn" points for cards. These points would be subtracted from the team's points.
Yellow card: 1 Point
Yellow-red card (a second yellow): 3 points
Red card: 4 points
Yellow and a red card: 5 points
(Every player could only fulfill one (or none) of the criteria)
Spain and Portugal came so close to a coin toss in 2018, it was insane.
I think there’s some other tiebreakers they could add. They just added disciplinary points and some other ones could be shots or shots on goal or possession.
Uh, after goals scored, the tie breaker is the fair play rule. We saw this between Japan and Senegal.
The UEFA Euro 2016 Tiebreaker list also includes fair play conduct and the UEFA national team coefficient ranking system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Euro_2016#Tiebreakers
+The Hoax I know could you imagine tieing all those levels then UEFA say, "well they have a higher rank so they go through" I think that's worse than a coin toss/drawing lots. Or if anything, after all those ties the worse ranked team should go forward since they tied a "better" team.
it was so long since your last video that your voice sounds different haha. you should do one of the conference cup since its this year or offside 101 a guide for americans like the european one you did haha.
Funny, I am maturing as I age.
Yeah, Confed. Cup is a really cool tournament and I have an offside bit in the works as well. Stay tuned either next week or in like 3 years when my voice is even more matured! Thanks for watching.
There are some confusions with the order W-L-D and (the in European soccer more common) W-D-L in your standings.
Liborius Olaf Lumma sane thing
Same*
Nice, will you upload frequently again?
This happened in the 2018 SAFF Championship
Also the winner of the coin toss became the champion
Anything would be better than a coin toss. How about most "non-penalty shot" goals scored as one tiebreaker (b/c some of these penalty shot goals are so cheap or controversial)? Another tiebreaker can also differentiate (albeit it'll be rare) goals scored (by yourself) vs "own goals" scored (deflected by the other team). Another one can be "first" goal scored. Yes, you can still have a tie at the end - and be forced to do a coin toss - but the idea is to create as many tiebreakers as possible to avoid the dreaded coin toss.
They now have added the fair play rule before the coin flip. Whichever of the two teams who received less yellow and red cards advances.
2:21 I don't understand how England has lost 2 games in this table when the other 3 teams have no wins between them? Also, how England has 4 points from 1 win and 2 losses or how Egypt has drawn 1, but no other team has a draw?
It's W - D - L (which is way more common in football) instead of W - L - D. They are just mislabeled.
Also, in 1990 a win was worth 2 points instead of the current 3 (this change was made by FIFA in 1995), hence why England has 4 points from 1 win and 2 draws instead of 5.
@@MWalkah Thanks :)
@@MWalkah The 3-point-for-a-win rule was changed prior to 1995. The World Cup in 1994 was already counting 3 points for victory.
@@tchujdenetza You are right. The 3 point for a win (first debuted in England in 1981) was indeed used in the 1994 World Cup, but was only "formally adopted" by FIFA in the following year, 1995, as I previously stated. Some other national leagues and associations made the change prior or after that as well.
However, the 1990 World Cup depicted in the video still used the 2 points for a win system.
sorry to be pedantic but in your ireland Netherlands slide, you have it as w/l/d which means the lost 3 instead of drawing 3
Damn it! I messed that up. Good catch and thank you for apologizing!
no bother as an Englishman (well Geordie) and a big fan of your work (although recent subscriber) I thought I would point it out to keep up your standards.
They should battle it out in a multiplayer FIFA game where each player plays themselves
I genuinely thought he was going to talk about the offside rule.
Awesome_Menneke Offside is s good rule in my opinion
are you crazy? offside rule is a very good rule
I mean, it’s a sport where games are routinely tied or decided by a difference of only 1 goal. So luck is the biggest determining factor in most games if similar skill level...
I've actually been researching for months in curiosity to find out how this works.
Thanks For Watching!
Actually, for the 2017 World Cup, they will take yellow cards and red cards into account before Drawing Lots. My Bad.
Actually what they should do is have shots on open goals while they are each in different cities and the shots would be taken from very far distances(from the other side of the pitch) until either of them miss.. So basically they would be competing while they aren't in the same place, that would actually be very fair
And you would have it broadcasted live and they would each be in contact with each other and you would have a referee for each team making sure everything is done correctly
u forgot the fair play rule when the team with the most yellow and red cards loses
What if a theoretical 4 way tie where every game ended in a 0-0 draw?
Least yellow and red cards
it happen in Africa cup of nation 2015 between Guinea and Mali and Guinea qualified to the next round
There has to be some tie breaker. Maybe they should get the captains to play a best of three rock-paper-scissors. I still find the away goal rule to be more egregious than this one.
This sharing so good!👍✔
A good solution would be to award second place to the highest ranked nation. For example, if Spain and Portugal completely tied for 2nd, Spain would go forward since they have a higher FIFA rank.
They should do tie breaker based on fifa ranking if they have same gd, goals, cards, etc.
Nb thats terribel
Nb fifa ranking is unfair asf
the tie is broken by fair-play, so the team with most yellow and red cards go home..
Waw. I really learnt history today. THanks bro
Why not use the total time it took both teams to score all their goals ?
02:23 sorry but you messed up with England,they should've had 3 points not 4 beacuse the won 1 and lost 2.
Yep, good catch. The title at the top of that column should read W-D-L, Eng should actually have 5 points.
Thanks for watching.
You seem to forget that 3 pts for win are pretty recent decision. Throughout whole soccer history only 2 pts were given for win. In fact they have decided to increase them to 3 for two reasons: A) This would decrease fixed games as draw would be almost a loss (1/3 of a win is much worse than 1/2 of a win) and B) Teams will fight much more aggressively for a win, because of the same reason. So England did have 4 pts.
tchujdenetza Petrov Exactly
I'm pretty sure they look at goals conceded after it's still tied on goals scored
….allowing fake flops or injuries is the worst ‘rule’ by far
It’s on fair play whoever has the least yellow cards go through
They should have a shootout at the site of the round of 32 game an hour before the game to determine who moves on. For one team the travel would be necessary anyways and I'm sure that a team would rather travel and not play a game in order to be in control of their own destiny than leave it up to chance.
Good thinking but the team that qualified would not know who they were playing and would not be able to choose thier players and tactics accordingly to who thwy were playing.
Just sit the two captains down in front a PlayStation and break the tie in an online match of FIFA…
In 1968 Soviet Union got eliminated in semifinals of European championship after a coin toss
Benfica Lost a Champions final due to a coin toss. Check it out. A good way to find the winner can be the yellows and red cards
I think there must be no draw in football. Even, group stage must have extra time and penalty shootout. This will remove the confusion. Results will be there so any team with most will go.
You forgot one thing: The results in the matches between the two tied teams.
he said it
0:23
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so fucking true bro
Fuck the video
But what happens when it ends like this?
Teams A, B , C and D
A win B 1-0
C win D 1-0
B win C 1-0
D win A 1-0
A draw C 0-0
B draw D 0-0
A 4 points 0 goal difference
B 4 points 0 goal difference
C 4 points 0 goal difference
D 4 points 0 goal difference
This is what I've been looking for....tie breaker rule
Celtic were once knocked out of Europe on the toss of a coin
Tony Harley. They also "qualified" with coin toss against BENFICA. I played against the celtic boys in the United States as a youngster and I have supported Celtic ever since. BENFICA is in my blood tho. FORÇA BENFICA and CELTIC
Thats hardly the worse rule. IMO the worse rule is the off-side rule (as it stands now).
Offside?
I'm surprised he didn't mention how only one player on each team is allowed to pick up the ball with their hands. It really makes the whole sport an awkward farce if you ask me.
Why can't there be a play off
why wouldn't they organize a playoff
+Tudor Costache thanks for watching Tudor. A one game playoff would be ideal; however, with the schedule at the World Cup there are only a few days between the end of the group stage and the next scheduled matches in the knockout round. Whatever team won a one game playoff would be too tired (2 days rest) to play well.
@@PenandPaper They could make it a shorter match, or even play with less players so they have more fresh players for the next match. Or they could just do a penalty shoot-out.
1:28 table is impossible
they should play mord games if a tie happened
And this is why I watch Football 🏈
And I watch cricket
Handegg 🏈 is not football ⚽
Jivan Scarano I agree Football is a silly name for 🏈 But it is mostly an American sport and thrives in America, just like most of the other sports in the world do, other than football ⚽️ which is way more popular over the rest of the world. 👍
@@Jivvi shut up man
I thought this would be about offside.
or you could, you know, have a shootout after every single game so there aren't any ties
Just simulate a match on a FIFA game instead of a coin toss
I think you meant offside
so its good they now use the fair play rule
What I don't get is that England were on 4 points with 1 win and 2 losses that means they should have 3 points
It was meant to be 1 win and 2 draws which would've made 4 points
Doctor Who Archive no it wouldn't that's five points
You only got 2 points for winning up until 1998 if I'm not mistaken
Pablo Sorbara You only got 2 points for a win up until the 1994 World Cup. This was because of the slow play of Italia ‘90. The addition of a third point for a win was added to make teams search for a winner and to play to get the win from the start, as a single win would be as valuable as drawing all 3 group matches.
Tom Athron Thanks, I was not entirely sure in which World Cup it was changed, I knew it was one from the '90s and the 1990 World Cup was played with the old score system
this has never been used in a worldcup, let me know if it has.
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No, the worst rule in soccer is the away goals rule.
The team who has the highest fifa ranking should pass
I think the opposite. If you have tied in all things, the lower ranked team should go through because if they are the worse team, they have played better to tie a better team.
Pen and Paper but less chance to succeed in the championship if they have a lower ranking
fairplay rules
We talking about the world game here and we call it ‘football’ please use our vocabulary.
FiFA mafia
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It’s the same thing
you are wrong
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