Neymar Jr’s Five championship: Battle between final 18 teams

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Mumbai, February 16th, 2017: Neymar Jr.'s Five, a globally established five-on-five football tournament, has reached its last leg - the country finals to be held on Friday, March 10 at Cyber Hub, Gurgaon.

Neymar Jr's Five kicks off on January 29

With over 1,000 teams participating in the knockout rounds in 12 cities - Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Guwahati, Goa, Cochin, Shillong, Ahmedabad and Chennai - it has come down to the battle of the final 18 teams, taking them closer to that coveted ticket to Neymar Jr's own backyard.

Neymar Jr's Five gives football lovers across India a chance to use their street skills to carve their path to glory, and a chance to represent the country in Brazil.

City qualifiers for the 2017 national finals were held across 12 cities in the country between October and December last year, including Ahmedabad, Goa, Cochin, Guwahati, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad.

The winning teams will now compete at the national finals on Friday, March 10 alongside the winners of the corporate leg for a chance to make it to the Neymar Jr's Five World Finals in Brazil.

The inaugural edition of Neymar's signature football tournament featured more than 65,000 people taking part across six continents and 47 countries.

This year, teams from around the world have again set out in the hope of making it all the way from the qualifiers to the World Final in July at the Instituto Projeto Neymar Jr in Praia Grande, Brazil.

The tournament has a unique, fast-paced format. Neymar Jr's Five sees two teams of five players, sans a goalkeeper, have 10 minutes to strut their stuff and win a chance to impress Barcelona's number 11.

The twist in this thrilling affair is that for each goal scored by a team, a member of the opposition will have to leave the field. The team with the maximum players take the spoils.

The first ever qualifiers for the tournament in India held last year as Winning 5, a young team from Bangalore - called Dream Team - emerged victorious, and subsequently traveled to Brazil to compete in the Neymar Jr's Five World Finals in July last year. The format returned to India this year as Neymar Jr's Five for the first time and bigger than ever.

Details of the final 18 teams below:

Fixtures for the National Finals:

Six groups of three teams each will compete against each other from which one team from each group will qualify. Also, two lucky losers (taking into consideration the goal difference) will qualify for the knock-out round.

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