World football’s dates for your diary in 2017
Happy New Year! 2017 is on us and is set to underline illusory football aplenty. To make certain that we do not skip any of a must-see events in store, FIFA.com has dull adult a highlights on a horizon. So, what are we watchful for? Grab your new diary and note down a following pivotal dates!
We will flog off a year with a crash in Zurich during a inaugural The Best FIFA Football Awards™ ceremony. On 9 January, we will finally find out that dual stars have got a curtsy as a tip men’s and women’s players of 2016. The winners of a accolades for a superb coaches and a many pleasing goal, among other distinctions, will also be revealed, as will a FIFA FIFPro World11. You will be means to follow all a movement from this celebration arise live on FIFA.com and a digital platforms.
Keep your eye on a ball
The pretension FIFA contest of a year is the FIFA Confederations Cup Russia 2017, that will run from 17 Jun to 2 July. The continental pretension winners from any connection will take their places alongside a reigning FIFA World Cup™ holders and a hosts to strive for tellurian excellence in a Tournament of Champions, that will be contested opposite 4 cities – Kazan, Sochi, Moscow and St Petersburg – and will offer as a dress operation a year forward of a subsequent World Cup. Remember that tickets are already on sale: we have until 19 Jan 2017 to request for yours in a stream phase.
The margin for a foe has been finalised solely for one slot, indifferent for a African champions, who will be motionless during a 2017 CAF Africa Cup of Nations in Gabon from 14 Jan to 5 February.
Fans of a sand, meanwhile, are certain to have a turn following the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup, that is firm for a Bahamas from 27 Apr to 7 May. Last though not least, a FIFA Club World Cup will once again tighten off a year in December, on this arise in a United Arab Emirates.
Spotlight on a starlets
Up-and-coming talents from all over a universe will have their possibility to wow a universe in 2017, with the FIFA U-20 World Cup set to take Korea Republic by charge from 20 May to 11 Jun and the U-17 chronicle of a tellurian extravaganza heading to India from 6 to 28 October.
As ever, FIFA.com will be rolling out extensive coverage of these events, as good as bringing we unchanging updates previously on how subordinate is moulding adult opposite a opposite continents.
The large theatre also beckons for practical footballers this year. The FIFA Interactive World Cup 2017 is already adult and running, with millions of gamers seeking to explain one of a 32 spots during a Grand Final in London. Besides a honeyed ambience of success, there is an intensely luscious Grand Prize adult for grabs.
Qualifying for a 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ will interpretation in a final months of a year. FIFA.com will again be a one-stop emporium to stay adult to speed on these rough competitions, a remaining fixtures from that will be widespread between Mar and November. Check in to check out a standings in a several zones and a latest news about all a inhabitant teams involved, as good as to follow all a incidents in a hundreds of matches still to be played in sequence to confirm who will be going to Russia.
Once we know a temperament of a 31 countries that will be fasten a Russians in a conflict for a tellurian crown, appetites will be whetted serve with a Official Draw. As usual, FIFA.com will be giving we a front-row chair for a arise and portion adult an contentment of disdainful content.
Where a womanlike diversion is concerned, we will be gripping a quite penetrating eye on a UEFA Women’s EURO in a Netherlands from 16 Jul to 6 August. Indeed, it will yield us with a absolved discernment into a form of a heading European nations before they embark on a query to book their berths during a subsequent FIFA Women’s World Cup™.
Of course, we can't forget a solid supply of bar football all year round, from leagues to domestic cups and continental competitions, that we can keep lane of as they occur with our Live Scores section.
Too most information to take in all during once? Fear not: simply stay tuned to FIFA.com or the FIFA App and follow a accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to keep on tip of all during what promises to be another illusory year in football!
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