First edition of University World Cup - Football is starting next month in the Chinese city of Jinjiang and it will be the first time in history that Universities from five different continents play each other at a competition.
If we say that the European Universities Games in Belgrade are the highlight of the year than definitely Universities World Cup - Football is a highlight for this year. The popularity of the sport is well known worldwide and the intention to equally fulfill the potential in the world of University sport as well.
The best 24 University teams from all over the world (16 men and 8 women) will be divided into four groups and two from each will proceed to the playoffs.
Information that will make the EUG 2020 fans happy is that the football tournament in Belgrade next year is a qualification tournament for the University World cup - Football, as it was last year. In Coimbra students from the University of Split and Siberian Federal University, who won gold medals in men and women competition, were the most skillful and earn their tickets to Jianjing.
There is not a better invite for the football tournament at the fifth European Universities Games in Belgrade next year than the fact that you can win the ticket for the University World cup - Football at the biggest European Universities competition in history.