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unusual facts about Quarter final



Jim Finney

Later he was selected as one of the English referees at the 1966 World Cup, gaining some notoriety there for his handling of the Uruguay versus West Germany quarter-final in which he sent off Horacio Troche and Héctor Silva.


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1. FC Pforzheim

This put Pforzheim into the national playoff rounds where they defeated favoured side Cologne FC 99 4–2 in a quarter final match, before eliminating defending champions Berlin TuFC Union 4–0 in the semi-finals.

1991 FIFA Women's World Cup qualification

Out of the 18 teams participating in the tournament, the qualifiers were the four semi-finalists - Denmark, Germany, Italy and Norway - and the best quarter-final loser - Sweden, who lost their two leg quarter-final clash against Italy on a single away goal.

1995–96 Birmingham City F.C. season

They also took part in the last season of the Anglo-Italian Cup, losing in the quarter-final after a penalty shootout.

2009 Munster Senior Football Championship

The winning Cork team received the Cuppy Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2009 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

2010 Leinster Senior Football Championship

The winning Meath team received the Delaney Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

2010 Munster Senior Football Championship

The winning Kerry team received the Cuppy Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2010 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

2011 Leinster Senior Football Championship

The winning Dublin team received the Delaney Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

2011 Munster Senior Football Championship

The winning Kerry team received the Cuppy Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2011 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

2011–12 Edinburgh Rugby season

Along the way, competing in the remarkable 48-47 match against Racing Métro and setting up a quarter final against French rugby giants Toulouse by scoring 4 tries against London Irish.

2011–12 Scottish Challenge Cup

The quarter-final draw was conducted on 11 August 2011 at 2:00pm in a Ramsdens outlet in The Forge Shopping Centre, Glasgow.

2012 Munster Senior Football Championship

The winning Cork team received the Cuppy Cup, and automatically advanced to the quarter-final stage of the 2012 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship.

Antonio Rattín

It was in the quarter-final match against the host team that Rattín was sent off by the German referee Rudolf Kreitlein for "violence of the tongue", despite the referee speaking no Spanish.

Argentina at the Rugby World Cup

During their World Cup run, the normally football-crazed Argentines embraced the Pumas so much that El Superclásico, the Buenos Aires football derby between Boca Juniors and River Plate that is normally the biggest event in Argentine sport, was rescheduled so that it would not conflict with the Pumas' quarter-final match.

Arthur Numan

Numan played in all of the group matches in France, although the quarter final game against Argentina was marred with his second yellow card of the game (after a tackle on Diego Simeone).

Bart Wuyts

Other notable performances include quarter-final appearances in the 1991 Guarujá Open, 1992 Dutch Open, 1992 San Marino Open and 1993 Grand Prix Hassan II.

Becky Sauerbrunn

After Rachel Buehler was sent off in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup quarter–final win over Brazil, Sauerbrunn was drafted into the starting eleven for the semi–final win over France.

Ben Lewitt

He played over 70 games for the Saints, including the quarter-final and semi-final of Northampton Saints' 2006-07 Heineken Cup run which saw them beat Biarritz Olympique in the Quarter-Final in San Sebastian before losing the Semi-Final to previous winners London Wasps at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry.

Casey Cordray

Cordray attended El Toro High School, where he helped lead the team to a first place finish in the Sea View League and a quarter final CIF appearance his senior season.

Colm Coyle

However, they went on to reach the 2007 All-Ireland Senior Football Championship quarter-final through the Qualifiers, and notched up a notable victory over 2003 and 2005 champions Tyrone, who had won the Ulster Senior Football Championship.

Daisuke Sekimoto

On March 6, 2009, Sekimoto took part in Westside Xtreme Wrestling's (wXw) 16 Carat Gold Tournament 2009 and reached the quarter final before being eliminated by Steve Douglas.

Darwen F.C.

The motion was defeated and Darwen travelled down to the Oval to play the great amateur side Old Etonians in the quarter-final.

Demetrio Albertini

In the quarter-final clash, Zidane-led France managed to overcome the masters of insurmountable defence only by penalties, during which Albertini's surprising failure did induce the tides to turn against Squadra Azzurra.

Edder Vaca

He scored one of Liga's penalties in quarter final game against San Lorenzo.

Fergus Devils

In the league quarter-final, the Devils laid out the seventh-seeded Bradford Bulls 4 games to none.

FK Radnički Sombor

In the 1957-58 season they reaching the quarter-final in the Yugoslav Cup, where they lost to HNK Hajduk Split.

Forrest Hill Milford

Forrest Hill Milford reached the Quarter-Final of the 2009 Chatham Cup (New Zealand's premier club knockout competition), where they were beaten by eventual champions Wellington Olympic 4-3.

Jimmy Gilligan

Returning to Watford, he began making intermittent appearances for the first team, the undoubted highlight being scoring Watford's first goal in Europe in their very first game against Kaiserslautern in the 1983–1984 UEFA Cup; he would later score in the quarter final defeat to Sparta Prague.

John Greig

In his first season, Rangers performed creditably to reach the quarter-final of the European Cup, defeating Italian champions Juventus and becoming the first club to win in European club competition at PSV's Philips Stadion, before eventual elimination to Cologne.

John Lundstram

Lundstram was named in the England squad that reached the quarter final of the 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup under John Peacock.

Kenny Sansom

He was still the first-choice left back for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico, playing in all of the matches up to and including the quarter final defeat against Argentina, in which game he was one of the England players left behind by Diego Maradona as he burst from inside his own half to score his second goal.

Lee Kiefer

She placed 5th at the 2012 London Olympic Games, after losing to eventual silver medalist Arianna Errigo in the quarter final, 15-10.

Leonel Núñez

He made his debut against Selangor FA by replacing Nurul Azwan Roya when Johor Darul Takzim trailed by 1-0 in the second leg of Malaysia FA Cup quarter-final and subsequently helped Johor DT by scoring 2 goals to complete the comeback to bring the match to a penalty shootout.

Luiz Carlos Nascimento Júnior

Unfortunately Brazil were eliminated in the quarter final, where Luizão managed to receive his only yellow card of the tournament, in the 116th minute.

Maccabi Haifa F.C.

In the middle of the season, Haifa's excellent striker Alon Mizrahi left for French club Nice resulting in a defeat in the CWC quarter final and a slump in the club's league performance.

Mark Cueto

He was left out of the surprise quarter-final victory against Australia and the even more surprising semi-final victory over France due to a niggling injury.

Michael McIlorum

McIlorum made his senior debut for Wigan on 8 June 2007 in a Challenge Cup quarter final tie against Harlequins RL at the JJB Stadium after an injury ruled out first team regular Shane Millard.

Norman Dean

In the 1967-68 Cup Winners' Cup, in a team that included John Toshack in attack and Bob Wilson in goal, Dean scored 3 goals including the winner in the quarter-final play-off against Moscow Torpedo and 2 goals in the semi-final against Hamburg, which Cardiff lost 4-3 on aggregate.

Park Sung-hwan

A week later, Park joined the Djarum Indonesia Open Super Series and lost to the world number one, Lee Chong Wei, 9-21, 13-21, in the quarter-final match.

Prelude to a Dream

On August 10, 2010, Evancho performed on a special YouTube quarter-final edition of the fifth season of America's Got Talent.

Robbie Green

He then defeated Scott Mitchell 4-1 in the second round to reach his first World Championship quarter-final, where he faced Tony O'Shea.

Rudi Glöckner

He attracted considerable criticism for his part in the games between ADO Den Haag and West Ham United in the 1976 European Cup Winners Cup and Wales and Yugoslavia at Ninian Park, Cardiff in which the Welsh were eliminated in the quarter-final; Glockner had to be escorted from the field of play.

Ryszard Wójcik

In 1991 he refereed two matches at the FIFA World Youth Championship - a group stage match between Brazil and the Ivory Coast which ended 2-1 and a further quarter-final in which Portugal defeated Mexico 2-1.

Ryu Seung-Woo

On 27 June 2013, Ryu was injured and substituted during South Korea's final game of the group stage against Nigeria, forcing him to miss out their Round of 16 match against Colombia, and subsequently, their Quarter-final loss against Iraq.

Shandong Province Youth Football Team

In the 2011 China League Two, this team placed 3rd in the North and played quarter-final in the play-off round, lost to Chongqing FC.

Sula Matovu

On 25 September 2012, in the 2nd Leg of Asian Quarter Final, Matovu scored his Erbil SC a debut goal in 37th min in a 1-1 draw with Kelantan ensuring Erbil S.C advance to the Asian Semi Finals.

Travis Blackley

He debuted for Australia in the 2007 Baseball World Cup and went 0–1 and 1.64 ERA for the tournament, his only loss coming against the Japan national baseball team when Tadashi Settsu threw a shutout against Australia in the quarter-final, with Australia finishing 5th.

Wael El Hindi

El Hindi's 2008 campaign began with a quarter-final berth in the Tournament of Champions in January, then the following month he exceeded his seeding in the Canadian Classic in Toronto, where he beat Australian Cameron Pilley to set up a surprise all-Egyptian semi-final line-up.

Wilmer Allison

Allison's last major tournament was a 1936 quarter-final loss to Bunny Austin.