Europa Cup 2020

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We are ready to start the 2020 Europa Cup!

12 teams from 4 different leagues will be competing for the title of European Champion (a title currently held by Emilia-Romagna). In the first round there will be 2 groups of 6 teams playing a round-robin. The two best-ranked teams in each group at the end of September will progress to the final round, where four teams will play for the Cup.

See below for the groups and the schedule of fixtures. Team admins can send challenges for the first two rounds of fixtures immediately, both to start on 15th March.

The rules can be read here.

 


 

Draw

The draw was made by drawing random numbers on random.org. The schedule was made using this website .The groups were randomly drawn using the following rules: 1) To maximise playing teams of a different nation, each group will have 2 British/Irish teams, 1 French team, and either 1 or 2 Italian and Slovakian teams. 2) To give fair chances to all national champions, the winner of each national league is seeded so that each group has two national champions (with Emilia-Romagna representing Italy, as Italy’s 2nd-placed team and current European Champions).

 


 

Group A

🇫🇷 Bretagne Échecs

🇸🇰 Nitrianksy Kraj

🇸🇰 Žilinský Kraj

🇬🇧 Somerset Wyvern

🇬🇧 Yorkshire Terriers

🇮🇹 Toscana

 

League table link

 

To start 15th March

Round 1

Bretagne Échecs vs Toscana

Nitrianksy Kraj vs Yorkshire Terriers

Žilinský Kraj vs Somerset Wyvern

 

Round 2

Yorkshire Terriers vs Bretagne Échecs

Somerset Wyvern vs Toscana

Žilinský Kraj vs Nitrianksy Kraj

 

To start 15th April

Round 3

Bretagne Échecs vs Somerset Wyvern

Yorkshire Terriers vs Žilinský Kraj

Toscana vs Nitrianksy Kraj

 

Round 4

Žilinský Kraj vs Bretagne Échecs

Nitrianksy Kraj vs Somerset Wyvern

Toscana vs Yorkshire Terriers

 

To start 15th May

Round 5

Bretagne Échecs vs Nitrianksy Kraj

Toscana vs Žilinský Kraj

Somerset Wyvern vs Yorkshire Terriers

 


 

Group B

🇮🇪 Leinster

🇮🇹 Emilia-Romagna

🇬🇧 Sussex

🇮🇹 Trentino-Südtirol

🇸🇰 Presovsky Kraj

🇫🇷 Euregio Lille

 

League table link

 

To start 15th March

Round 1

Leinster vs Euregio Lille

Emilia-Romagna vs Presovsky Kraj

Sussex vs Trentino-Südtirol

 

Round 2

Presovsky Kraj vs Leinster

Trentino-Südtirol vs Euregio Lille

Sussex vs Emilia-Romagna

 

To start 15th April

Round 3

Leinster vs Trentino-Südtirol

Presovsky Kraj vs Sussex

Euregio Lille vs Emilia-Romagna

 

Round 4

Sussex vs Leinster

Emilia-Romagna vs Trentino-Südtirol

Euregio Lille vs Presovsky Kraj

 

To start 15th May

Round 5

Leinster vs Emilia-Romagna

Euregio Lille vs Sussex

Trentino-Südtirol vs Presovsky Kraj

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Yorkshire v Toscana https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1107072

Challenge sent Yorkshire Terriers vs Team Zilinsky kraj

https://www.chess.com/clubs/match_challenge/1875784

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Emilia-Romagna vs Trentino-Südtirol will be played on 1st May as a double fixture with the Italian league.

 

Other clubs can choose to do this if they already have a league fixture with one of their opponents, as long as that match starts before 15th May. 

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this is the link to the match between the 2 Italian Teams ER and T-ST starting the 1st of May. Thanks for this opportunity! 

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-emilia-romagna/1108142

 

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With 3 days to go until October, I think we're ready to start the final round. There are a couple of matches left to resolve (Sussex vs Lille and Presovsky vs Trentino-Sudtirol) but neither should affect the top 2 of each group.

 

Qualified from Group A:

🇬🇧 Yorkshire Terriers

🇬🇧 Somerset Wyvern

Qualified from Group B:

🇮🇹 Emilia-Romagna

🇬🇧 Sussex

 

Toscana narrowly missed out in Group A, while UK & Ireland champions Leinster were 3rd in Group B only on their head-to-head record with Sussex. Full standings are here. Thanks to all the teams who took part in the first round, and I hope to see you in a future event.

So we will have three English teams vying to beat the current European champions. The schedule is: 

 

To start 15th October

Round 1

Yorkshire Terriers vs Sussex

Emilia-Romagna vs Somerset Wyvern

 

To start 15th November

Round 2

Somerset Wyvern vs Yorkshire Terriers

Sussex vs Emilia-Romagna

 

To start 15th December

Round 3

Yorkshire Terriers vs Emilia-Romagna

Somerset Wyvern vs Sussex