2015 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

2015 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup
CIS Cup, Кубок Содружества 2015
Tournament details
Host country	Russia
Dates	16–25 January 2015
Teams	12
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	South Africa (1st title)
Runners-up	Finland
Tournament statistics
Matches played	34
Goals scored	85 (2.5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Alexey Yevseyev; (5 goals)
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2015 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup was the 23rd annual Commonwealth of Independent States Cup since its establishment in 1993. It was hosted in Saint Petersburg, Russia between 16 and 25 January 2015.

Saint Petersburg hosted the event for the sixth time, with all matches being held in a single venue (Saint Petersburg Sports and Concert Complex). All participating nations were represented by their youth (U20/U21) national teams.^[1]

Format edit

Group stage

Twelve teams were divided into three groups of four. The top two of each group qualified automatically for a play-off along with the two best third placed teams. The other third placed team along with the three bottom participants out of each group proceed to the play-off which would place its participants 9th through 12th places.

Playoffs

The winners of the quarter-finals advanced further into semi-finals, while the other four less fortunate entered play-off for the fifth place. Next the winners of the semi-finals advanced to the final, while the other two participants played for the third place. Simultaneously the winners of the play-off for the fifth place continued to the fifth place match, while the other two played for the seventh place.

Participants edit

The following 12 teams, shown with age of youth national team, took part in the tournament:

Team	Coach	Notes	Participation
Russia U21	Nikolai Pisarev	Host	13th
Belarus U21	Igor Kovalevich		4th
Lithuania U21	Arminas Narbekovas		4th
Latvia U21	Dainis Kazakevičs		4th
Estonia U21	Martin Reim		4th
Moldova U21	Igor Ursachi		4th
Kazakhstan U21	Saulius Širmelis		4th
Tajikistan U20	Alisher Tukhtaev		4th
Turkmenistan U20	Ahmet Agamyradow		3rd
Kyrgyzstan U20	Mirlan Eshenov		4th
Finland U21	Tommi Kautonen		1st
South Africa U20	David Notoane		1st

Squads edit

Group stage edit

Group A edit

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Belarus	3	3	0	0	6	0	+6	9
Turkmenistan	3	1	1	1	4	3	+1	4
Finland	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
Estonia	3	0	0	3	2	9	−7	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Results edit

All subsequent times UTC+3

16 January 2015

14:15

Estonia	1–2	Finland
Sappinen 51'	Report	Hatakka 54', 90'

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Kyrgyzstan	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
Russia	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
Moldova	3	0	3	0	4	4	0	3
Latvia	3	0	2	1	2	3	−1	2

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Tajikistan	3	2	0	1	4	4	0	6
South Africa	3	1	2	0	4	2	+2	5
Kazakhstan	3	1	1	1	1	1	0	4
Lithuania	3	0	1	2	2	4	−2	1

9th – 12th place (22 Jan)		9th place match (24 Jan)

Estonia	2

Moldova	3
		Moldova (p)	1

		Latvia	1
Latvia	2

Lithuania	0	11th place match (24 Jan)


		Estonia	2

		Lithuania	1

Moldova	1–1	Latvia
Semirov 30'	Report	Flaksis 75' (pen.)
Penalties
Bîrdan Ciofu Macrițchii Ursu Rozgoniuc Paireli	6–5	Svārups Vītolnieks Flaksis Kiriļins Gutkovskis Bērenfelds


5th place match (25 Jan)		5th – 8th place (23 Jan)		Quarterfinals (21 Jan)		Semifinals (23 Jan)		Final (25 Jan)



				Belarus (p)	1

				Kazakhstan	1

		Kazakhstan	0			Belarus	1

		Russia	3			South Africa (p)	1

				Russia	0

				South Africa	2

Russia	3							South Africa	2

Kyrgyzstan	1							Finland	1

				Tajikistan	0

				Turkmenistan	2

7th place match (25 Jan)		Tajikistan	1			Turkmenistan	0	3rd place match (25 Jan)

		Kyrgyzstan	3			Finland	4

Kazakhstan	2			Kyrgyzstan	0			Belarus	4

Tajikistan	0			Finland	1			Turkmenistan	0

Belarus	1–1	Kazakhstan
Yarotsky 78'	Report	Jalilov 64'
Penalties
Poznyak Zaleski Klimovich Zolotov Ignatenko	3–1	Sariev Tuliyev Shaikhov Aimbetov

Belarus	1–1	South Africa
Klimovich 74'	Report	Madisha 90' (pen.)
Penalties
Poznyak Yablonskiy Zaleski Chernyshov Karpovich	3–4	Madisha Maraisane Seriba Domingo Modiba

Rank	Player	Team	Goals
1	Alexey Yevseyev	Russia	5
2	Dani Hatakka	Finland	4
3	Motjeka Madisha	South Africa	3
3	Abdurasul Rakhmonov	Tajikistan	3

2015 Commonwealth of Independent States Cup

Format edit

Participants edit

Squads edit

Group stage edit

Group A edit

Results edit

Group B edit

Results edit

Group C edit

Results edit

Consolation round edit

Bracket edit

Places 9 to 12 edit

Eleventh place match edit

Ninth place match edit

Final stages edit

Bracket edit

Quarter-finals edit

Places 5 to 8 edit

Semi-finals edit

Seventh place match edit

Fifth place match edit

Third place match edit

Final edit

Final standing edit

Top scorers edit

References edit

External links edit