TSA FIFA World Cup: Round of 32 Draw & Fixtures

Tony Cawley 31 Comments

The real World Cup is now under way in Brazil and England have already predictably lost their 1st game, though slightly less predictably, Holland spanked Spain 5-1! Though we’ve had a slight delay in getting started, thanks to that pesky E3 taking everyone’s time on TSA, we’re just about ready to get under way with our very own TSA World Cup.

Random.org always comes in very useful for these tournaments and once again it was used to draw which player was going to play as which nation throughout this tournament. First, those that played in the TSA Ultimate Team tournament and finished in the top 8 were randomly assigned teams from the bottom half of the draw (going off the official FIFA rankings). Once that was done, everybody else was drawn a random nation from those that remained.

One point of note here is that all 32 World Cup nations are not represented in FIFA 14 so where that was the case, the official FIFA rankings were referred to and another nation was chosen for the player with a world ranking as close to the originally drawn team as possible.

The team you will play with throughout this tournament is written next to your TSA ID. If this team is a replacement for who you were originally drawn, then that team is in brackets as EA saw fit to not include them in FIFA 14.

Rules

  • Please have your matches completed by 18:00PM BST on Tuesday 24th June 2014.
  • Once your match is completed please make sure you post your final score in the forum thread here.
  • Use a combination of the comments section of this article, the forum thread here or PSN to get your matches arranged.
  • Each tie is one leg only. Whoevers name is mentioned 1st below playing at home i.e. they send the game invite.
  • If the tie is a draw at 90 minutes you must both select extra time and penalties to decide the outcome. EDIT: If the tie is a draw at 90 minutes, FIFA 14 no longer has the option for extra time and penalties in online friendlies, so you must replay the match until there is a winner.
  • If you are attempting to get your match arranged but your opponent isn’t responding please let us know in the forum thread and we will do what we can to help or assign a replacement from the reserves.
  • Replacements players will only be used during the first round, after which any player retiring or forfeiting their match will see their opponent receive a bye into the next stage of the tournament.

Please note the change with regard to extra time, which is no longer available in FIFA 14 for online friendlies. You must instead replay the tie until there is a winner.

Round of 32 draw

In the following table, everyone is paired up and their team revealed. When someone’s PSN ID differs from their TSA ID, this is in brackets, while substitute teams for those not in FIFA 14 are marked by an asterisk and clarified below the table.

TSA-FIFA-WC-R32table

Replacement Teams

Where countries that qualified for the World Cup were not in FIFA 14, the following nearby replacements were used:

  1. Croatia (18) was replaced by Ukraine (16)
  2. Algeria (22) was replaced by Slovenia (25)
  3. Japan (46) was replaced by Peru (45)
  4. Ghana (37) was replaced by Egypt (36)
  5. Costa Rica (28) was replaced by Scotland (27)
  6. Nigeria (44) was replaced by Venezuela (40)
  7. Iran (43) was replaced by Austria (42)
  8. Bosnia and Herzegovina (21) was replaced by Denmark (23)
  9. Honduras (33) was replaced by Sweden (32)
  10. South Korea (57) was replaced by Norway (55)

Reserves

In the instance that one of the above players has to withdraw during the first round

  1. HatifH (Azian-Temptazian)
  2. SpaaarKY
  3. xblakie_chanx
  4. shelda-
  5. 1acemak (Hate_RealMadrid)
  6. shoebak (Sh0bista)
  7. AH_Erazor

Good luck in your matches, please don’t forget to post your scores in the forum thread here.

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31 Comments

  1. Scotland? Scotland! Pfft, it’s not like I can even be derogatory about them on this site ;)

    Top job as always. I’ll get on to arranging my match.

    • I’ll swap you for Egypt :D either way it should be a nice easy win for you Rob ;)

      • Ha, get your excuses in early! I’ll have you know I came bottom of my group in the last competition and lost a game 8-1. I think you may just be okay!

        I’m pretty much free from Friday evening onwards. Do you have any preference?

      • Lol gotta get em in early ;) the sooner the better really get it over an done with lol,Friday evening Saturday Sunday any time really as it won’t take long :D

  2. I don’t have any specific times to play, sooner the better though.
    May the best man win baggyg!

  3. Have i missed something? This IS on PS4, yeah? There’s no option for extra time or pens on PS4?!

    • If i have missed something, i’ll need my ps3 fifa14 from work.

      • At the end of the match, if the match finisheda , the option comes up.

      • God knows what happened there, if the match finished a draw the option should come up to play extra time and pens. Remember this is a friendly match.

  4. Only way to play online, without ultimate team, is online friendlies, which automatically awards the draw…I think!

  5. I think pitchforkdisney is right there’s no extra time or pens when playing online friendlies

  6. Thanks for the post about World Cup. Just a tip about those who don’t live in countries that stream world cup online. You can use UnoTelly to remove the geoblock and stream World Cup 2014 in your country free worldcup.unotelly.com

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