| When baseball was in its rudimentary stages, different teams played by different rules. |
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| Two teams were eliminated in the contraction of the baseball league. |
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| The football game was an epic battle between two great teams. |
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| If the teams don't cap player salaries, the league won't survive. |
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| Eleven national teams and four hundred competitors took part in six sports. |
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| If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, what is a materials policy statement prepared by seven study teams? |
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| Jim remained in Shepparton where he played Australian rules and trained teams there and in Wangaratta until his health failed. |
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| Because the didn't have enough young boys for two full teams, they bracketed the seven-year olds with the eight-year olds. |
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| He was the man who brought us those great bruising, bristle-chinned teams, with players who had fearsome names like Bruno and Bulldog. |
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| So many people attended the basketball call out that the coach decided to form 2 teams. |
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| Now individuals and teams need to be willing to colour outside the lines and not work only from inside a box, a silo, a discipline, and so on. |
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| It was a pity, Mel Bakersfeld reflected, that runway snow teams were not on more public view.... Airport men called the group a Conga Line. |
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| Management teams must act locally with nimbility and corporately with strength, to greater effect than people working individually. |
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| Instead of the Great Britain badge on the right, there will be the World Cup logo, similar to each of the ten teams shirts. |
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| The main value of the lists is to indicate which were the most competitive teams during a given period. |
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| The team had an improved record, but although second only to Gloucestershire, Yorkshire lost heavily in both encounters between the teams. |
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| The writings of Neville Cardus at this time were instrumental in emphasising the sense of rivalry between the two teams. |
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| The athletes or teams who place first, second, or third in each event receive medals. |
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| The NOCs receive financial support for the training and development of Olympic teams, Olympic athletes and Olympic hopefuls. |
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| At the 1952 Games in Helsinki the USSR team competed for the first time and immediately became one of the dominant teams. |
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| On the opening day, following the practice introduced at the Intercalated Games of 1906, teams paraded behind national flags. |
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| These two teams claimed 24 total medals, in other words half of the total medals given. |
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| Over 1,000 athletes participated in the 1958 Games as over thirty teams took part for the first time. |
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| Participation also reached new levels as over 3500 athletes represented 70 teams at the event. |
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| Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus has made applications to the CGF to send teams. |
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| The following 20 teams, shown by region, qualified for the 2003 Rugby World Cup. |
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| Both teams were high in confidence, following successes in their end of year tests against nations from the Southern hemisphere. |
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| The qualification process for the remaining teams incorporated existing regional competitions such as the European Nations Cup. |
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| The top two teams receive home advantage, the league leaders hosting the 4th ranked team, and the 2nd place team hosting the 3rd place team. |
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| He has largely been credited with creating Wasps' famous Blitz Defence that stops teams and is the basis for Wasps' own scoring chances. |
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| It was not long before Northampton had one of the major rugby union teams in the country. |
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| After 23 games, teams enter a Super 8 stage, the top eight play each other once more. |
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| European rugby was further expanded with the advent of the European Challenge Cup for teams that did not qualify for the Heineken Cup. |
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| Toulouse's victory over French rivals Perpignan in 2003 meant that they joined Leicester as the only teams to win the title twice. |
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| The teams are ranked based on domestic league performance the previous season, and arranged into four tiers of five teams. |
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| These colours are similar to other English sporting teams and are the colours used on the national flag. |
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| By 1908 the game had expanded much more into Australia, New Zealand and Wales and England began playing those teams. |
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| England have played 19 different teams over their history with 5 of these being representative teams. |
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| They were one of the strongest teams in rugby league, though usually playing second fiddle to Australia. |
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| Since 1995 the RFL have preferred to send the home nations as separate teams for World Cup purposes. |
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| Great Britain did not compete in the 1975 World Cup as the UK was represented by teams from England and Wales for the first time in a World Cup. |
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| The ninth Rugby League World Cup was played out between 1985 and 1988, with teams playing each other on a home and away basis. |
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| In addition to the hosts, the tournament featured teams from Britain, Australia and New Zealand. |
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| In 1995, the competition was once again restructured, returning to the traditional 'host' format with ten teams entering. |
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| The 2000 World Cup expanded the field further, with sixteen teams entering. |
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| The Rugby League World Cup has followed a varied range of formats throughout its history as the number of teams participating has increased. |
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| The teams that are hosting the tournament automatically qualify for the finals. |
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| Qualifying groups have varied over the years with more teams playing in qualifiers. |
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| Three teams from the groups of four qualify for the knockout stage and one team from the groups of three qualify. |
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| After the group stage the qualifying teams progress to the knockout stages into the quarter finals. |
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| The eight teams in the quarter finals play each other with the four winners progressing to the semi finals before the World Cup Final. |
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| The original format of the World Cup saw four teams take part in a single group. |
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| After the group stage, the top two teams then took part in a final which decided the world champions. |
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| The teams announced were the 12 existing Super League teams along with National League 1 teams, Celtic Crusaders and Salford. |
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| It has been held annually since 1896 and has been expanded so teams in Russia, France, Scotland and Wales can take part. |
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| The Qualifiers Super 8s sees the bottom 4 teams from the original Super League table mixed with the top 4 teams from the Championship. |
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| After 7 games each the teams finishing 1st, 2nd and 3rd will gain qualification to the next years Super League season. |
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| The structure is designed to reward the teams finishing nearer the top and the most consistent teams. |
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| A reserve league was set up in 2016 with a mixture of Super League, Championship and League 1 teams. |
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| This also means that teams taking part in the top 3 divisions will come from 4 countries and 2 continents. |
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| Wigan, like most teams, originally used the towns coat of arms as their club badge until the Super League era when many clubs rebranded. |
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| Matches, between the two teams are played traditionally on Good Friday and in previous seasons on Boxing Day. |
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| The rivalry is so fierce that matches between the two teams are one of only two sporting events to officially be given the title of The Derby. |
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| St Helens are one of the best supported teams in Super League, averaging 11,543 according to 2014 figures. |
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| During the Super League era, the participating teams have adopted mascots and nicknames usually in alliteration with the name of their home town. |
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| Tables were turned in December when the same teams met in the final of the BBC2 Floodlit Trophy, Leeds emerging victorious this time. |
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| In addition, commencing in 2015, the tournament would also be expanded to six teams. |
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| In 2007, Nicholas was the captain for the 2009 and 2011 European Solheim Cup teams. |
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| The Ryder Cup is a biennial men's golf competition between teams from Europe and the United States. |
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| Up until 1977, the matches featured teams representing the United States and Great Britain and Ireland. |
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| The Ryder Cup involves various match play competitions between players selected from two teams of twelve. |
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| In the early contests the teams were generally decided by a selection committee but later qualification based on performances was introduced. |
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| For the 2014 Ryder Cup both teams had 9 players qualifying based on performances with the remaining 3 players selected by the captain. |
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| It was played in 2002 at the original venue with the same teams that had been selected to play a year earlier. |
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| Since the 2001 tournament 32 players have been given seedings in the Gentlemen's and Ladies' singles, 16 teams in the doubles events. |
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| One of the show courts is also used for home ties of the GB teams in the Davis Cup on occasions. |
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| The latter are listed first, as seven teams, ignoring any major wins with other partners. |
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| The Hopman Cup, a third competition for mixed teams, carries less prestige, but is a popular curtain raiser to the tennis season. |
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| All teams competed against one another for the right to face the previous year's champion in the final round. |
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| The 16 best national teams are assigned to the World Group and compete annually for the Davis Cup. |
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| The World Group is the top group and includes the world's best 16 national teams. |
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| Therefore, countries play in the country where the last tie between the teams was not held. |
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| This event also shared the weekend at Silverstone with an FIA GT round, with some GT teams running both events. |
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| With the original offer revoked, and with the premiere teams already committed to their incumbent drivers, Mansell decided to move on. |
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| A few testing sessions with F1 teams including Jordan suggested another comeback could be on the cards, but it never happened. |
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| Although teams in motor racing series are generally allocated numbers, Mansell has been associated with the number 5 for many years. |
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| He went on to drive for the less competitive Arrows and Jordan teams, and in 1998 gave Jordan their first win. |
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| A total of 19 McLaren GT customer teams contested the 2013 season, entering 108 races across 15 championships globally. |
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| In total, the teams claimed 27 pole positions, 23 victories, a further 39 podium finishes and three championship titles. |
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| The Williams FW15C was the dominant car, with active suspension and traction control systems beyond anything available to the other teams. |
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| Renault ultimately finished third in the manufacturers trophy and second in the teams championship. |
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| It is one of two F1 teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH, the other being Scuderia Toro Rosso. |
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| Complaints were issued to the FIA from rival teams, but they were discarded by the sport's governing body. |
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| Carmelo Ezpeleta, the CEO of Dorna Sports, indicated that the projected changes were received by the teams favorably. |
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| That could go head to head in attempt to find the best sailing crews and teams. |
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| It is also used in icons on the Internet and on the TV screen to represent teams and players from England. |
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| Ten football teams contest the Faroe Islands Premier League, currently ranked 51st by UEFA's League coefficient. |
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| Greenland took part in the 2007 World Men's Handball Championship in Germany, finishing 22nd in a field of 24 national teams. |
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| In 2009, Hong Kong hosted the 5th East Asian Games and nine national teams competed in it. |
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| The Irish Elite League is a domestic competition for rugby league teams in Ireland. |
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| Southern Hemisphere teams who beat all four home nations in one tour are said to have a Grand Slam Tour. |
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| Increasingly people have tied their loyalties and even their cultural identity to national teams. |
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| This building houses many squash courts, several climbing walls and is home to QUB's senior men's and women's basketball teams. |
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| The WAA also control the selection and management of representative teams competing for Wales at international events. |
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| Welsh Gymnastics organises the Welsh national and international teams and competitions. |
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| The WPA play under blackball rules and have in excess of 10,000 registered players from more than 80 interleague teams throughout Wales. |
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| The WPA also spans to international level pool with representation from our Mens, Ladies, Youths, Seniors and Specials teams. |
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| The senior teams each play in annual European competitions, and the professional side compete in the World Cup every 4 years. |
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| Great Britain's men's and women's handball teams were allowed to take up host places at the 2012 Olympics. |
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| Three of the five teams had British players, and those three teams took both the top two places and split the third place with the Mexican team. |
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| In the 1850s and 1860s, Ireland was visited for the first time by touring professional teams. |
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| Ireland would have faced the Netherlands in the final, however the match was rained off and the teams shared the trophy. |
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| Edinburgh also has several men's basketball teams within the Scottish National League. |
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| Founded in 1986, and one of the most successful British teams during the nineties. |
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| Belfast has several notable sports teams playing a diverse variety of sports such as football, Gaelic games, rugby, cricket, and ice hockey. |
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| The youth cricket teams have been promoted to play in the European Division 1 alongside Ireland, Scotland, Denmark, the Netherlands and Guernsey. |
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| The beach was heavily mined and peppered with obstacles, making the work of the beach clearing teams difficult and dangerous. |
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| Most of the major sports have separate administrative structures and national teams for each of the countries of the United Kingdom. |
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| By 1881 both Ireland and Wales had teams, and in 1883 the first international competition the annual Home Nations Championship took place. |
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| Therefore, joint SAD and Army Special forces teams and the Pershmerga constituted the entire Northern force against the Iraqi army. |
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| Army Special Forces joint teams and the Kurdish Peshmerga constituted the entire northern force against government forces during the invasion. |
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| Supporting these directorates are a variety of other corporate service teams and professional groups. |
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| Newport has a Skittle Alley League consisting of over 50 teams who play their league games on a Friday evening. |
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| Aberdeen boasts a large cricket community with 4 local leagues operating that comprise a total of 25 clubs fielding 36 teams. |
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| The club also field teams at the Under 20, Under 16, Under 14 and Under 12 age groups. |
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| The Government announced in 2006 that it would provide substantial financial support to Bermuda's cricket and football teams. |
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| Two domestic leagues exist, one on Grand Turk with three teams and another on Providenciales. |
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| The island hosts its own tournament each year with teams from all over Europe visiting the island. |
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| He was a fan of the Derry Gaelic football and hurling teams and played both sports when he was younger. |
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| League, launched in 1996, currently comprises nine clubs, including two foreign teams. |
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| By September 2001, when the British training teams were replaced by an international force, the DDR process was almost complete. |
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| The New York metropolitan area hosts the most sports teams in these five professional leagues. |
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| There have been 35 Major League Baseball World Series and 73 pennants won by New York teams. |
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| There are also two Minor League Baseball teams in the city, the Brooklyn Cyclones and Staten Island Yankees. |
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| Two shadow franchises, Chiltern Lines and Great Western Trains were purchased by their own management teams. |
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| Countries of Central Europe had many great national teams throughout history and hosted several major competitions. |
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| Sports teams and societies are organised by the Goldsmiths Students' Union. |
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| As many sports teams have logos printed on their jerseys, rowing clubs have specifically painted blades that each team is associated with. |
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| Germany has competed under five different designations, including as two separate teams at several Games. |
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| The table below shows sourced combinations of these teams, when applied to the updated medal totals from the main table. |
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| At all levels including the youth teams the Welsh national team draws players primarily from clubs in the English football league system. |
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| The top two teams were to qualify for the finals in Brazil, but Wales finished bottom of the group. |
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| The first football matches between national teams were arranged by the FA, who invited English and Scottish players to form representative teams. |
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| By contrast, teams in nations which had not yet developed professional leagues were able to field their strongest sides. |
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| Since then, ties have been broken by considering the points difference of the teams. |
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| Were this decider to be a tie, the tying teams would share the championship. |
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| Before the start of each game the national anthem of both teams is sung by their players and supporters. |
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| Through its history, it was viewed by some as the top prize in European rugby for club teams. |
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| However, even with the running costs of two instead of three teams, the SRU were still struggling. |
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| The first golden period was over and the players that made up the teams that won four Triple Crowns had already disbanded before the Great War. |
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| Welsh victories were now coming against the more established home nation teams. |
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| Before the match with Wales, New Zealand were to face eight club teams over six games. |
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| This win gave Swansea the honour of being the first club team to have beaten all three major Southern Hemisphere touring teams. |
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| Many teams set up 'coupon funds' to allow clothing rations to be contributed by members to buy kit. |
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| There is also a Welsh Premier Division and WRU Challenge Cup competed for by Wales' traditional club teams. |
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| All European Pro14 teams that do not qualify for the Champions Cup will play in the Challenge Cup. |
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| If any one of these teams defeats all three other teams, they win the Triple Crown. |
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| By mutual consent between the teams, the pitch could be rolled, watered, covered and mown during a match and the use of sawdust was authorised. |
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| The club's own teams are essentially ad hoc because they have never taken part in any formal competition. |
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| This structure will be similar to that of North American professional sports, featuring two conferences of six teams each. |
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| It runs competitions such as the Irish Chess Championship and selects teams to participate in international competitions for Ireland. |
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| Irish national teams have played internationally with attendance at European championships. |
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| The East of Scotland Cricket Association runs 9 divisions, with the Eastern Premier League containing 10 teams. |
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| The Aberdeenshire Cricket Association holds 4 grades of cricket with around 25 clubs fielding over 30 teams throughout summer. |
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| The bowling side is subjected to fielding restrictions during an ODI, in order to prevent teams from setting wholly defensive fields. |
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| Finally, since 2005, three composite teams have played matches with full ODI status. |
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| The service park also allows spectators and the media to get close to the teams and their cars and drivers. |
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| The 2000s saw cheaper cars than the later Supertouring era, with fewer factory teams and fewer international drivers. |
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| To further keep costs in check, the BTCC uses a single tyre supplier, with Dunlop the current supplier of rubber to all the teams. |
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| Since then, Ireland has become the team's main rival, the two teams having played each other many times in their short histories. |
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| Scotland play in a dark blue strip, similar to the nation's football and rugby union teams, with blue shirt, shorts and socks. |
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| Out of the four teams, two would then qualify for the Quarter Finals, playing the top teams from other groups. |
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| These two teams had already played each other a week earlier with the result and Irish victory. |
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| The game was much enlivened when both teams scored within five minutes of each other. |
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| It took many years to get that tough and I'm not letting my armor down for some floofy executive from the top who sends in his teams of experts. |
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| Financially, the two New York teams have not asked for the sort of free ride at taxpayer expense that has been commonplace elsewhere. |
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| Both teams like to wait, Wales without the ball, Portugal in fussicky possession. |
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| In most international competitions, separate teams represent England, Scotland and Wales. |
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| If any of the British teams or the Irish team beat the other three in a tournament, then it is awarded the Triple Crown. |
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| It consists of 11 teams from Northern England, 1 from London, 1 from Wales and 1 from France. |
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| Following an amalgamation of local hockey clubs in 2011, the Isle of Wight Hockey Club now runs two men's senior and two ladies' senior teams. |
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| Heavy goods transport on these roads was by means of slow, broad wheeled, carts hauled by teams of horses. |
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| Two Aviva Premiership rugby union teams are based in London, Saracens and Harlequins. |
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| The best known university in the region is the University of Oxford, famous for its ornate colleges and its rowing teams on the Thames. |
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| Players from some of the region's minor league teams have gone on to influence football on the world stage. |
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| The sport is also the most notable exception where the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland field separate international teams. |
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| In recent years, various Norwegian songwriters and production teams have contributed to the music of other international artists. |
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| The city is also home to one of the oldest American football teams in the BAFA National Leagues, the Birmingham Bulls. |
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| Rugby union is also widely enjoyed across the islands with four national teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. |
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| These national rugby teams play each other each year for the Triple Crown as part of the Six Nations Championship. |
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| The Gaelic Athletic Association still uses the counties as its primary means of organisation and fields representative teams of each GAA county. |
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| Ulster is one of the four professional provincial teams in Ireland and competes in the Celtic League and European Cup. |
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| Players play for local clubs with the best being selected for their county teams. |
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| The state has no NCAA Division II teams and only two NCAA Division III teams. |
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| In rugby union, the region is home to professional Premiership teams Wasps RFC and Worcester Warriors. |
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| Derbyshire is also host to one of the only community Muggle quidditch teams in the country, known as Derby Union Quidditch Club. |
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| Rugby union was not entirely driven from Northern England, and in the 1970s the region was home to several strong teams. |
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| Student tabloid The Tab also publishes online content and has teams at both universities. |
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| More recently, vehicles have been painted white, and are issued with fittings similar to civilian UK Mountain Rescue teams. |
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| The success of the JET led Ashton Carter calling for more such teams for other poorly performing projects. |
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| In the last 16 World Cup tournaments, Germany has always reached at least the stage of the last eight teams. |
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| Sports teams may also contract out their transport to a team bus, for travel to away games, to a competition or to a final event. |
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| The top football league in Malta is called the Maltese Premier League, and consists of 12 teams. |
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| The Malta national waterpolo team has achieved some great results against strong teams, and has competed in the Olympics twice. |
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| They have recently been achieving great success, defeating teams including Sweden, Croatia and Latvia. |
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| Sports teams with links to the Irish community exist in England, although this is not as marked as in Scotland. |
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| There is a Vatican football championship, with teams including the Swiss Guard's FC Guardia and police and museum guard teams. |
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| In addition to these, individual colleges often promote their own societies and sports teams. |
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| As well as traditional sports, there are teams for activities such as Octopush and quidditch. |
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| TeamBath is the umbrella name for all of the University of Bath sports teams, including the aforementioned football club. |
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| The cricket teams play their home games at the club's ground in Binley Road, Coventry. |
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| The Games involved 1,130 athletes from 35 national teams competing in 94 events. |
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| The festival features local and foreign teams which launch displays on different nights. |
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| Four teams claim a continuous lineage Bampton, Headington Quarry, and Chipping Campden. |
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| In the 1950s and especially the 1960s, there was an explosion of new dance teams, some of them women's or mixed sides. |
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| The dances were often associated with rushcarts at the local wakes or holidays, and many teams rehearsed only for these occasions. |
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| Some of the earliest teams used hornpipes rather than the jigs used in the modern era. |
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| The Rapper Online website provides information on the origins and history of the dance, teams listings, and notations of traditional dances. |
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| The Rapper Online website provides a list of rapper sword teams and the Sword Dance Union has produced a map of current UK teams. |
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| Rapper teams also exist in Australia, Germany and the Basque Country of France. |
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| These teams generally maintain the traditions of their dances, such as traditional performances on Boxing Day or Plough Monday. |
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| The contest is a rough one, with teams fighting to move the bottles over such obstacles as ditches, hedges, and barbed wire. |
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| Cumbrian club cricket teams play in the North Lancashire and Cumbria League. |
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| In the United States it is common for two teams of those that have been caught to engage in a tug of war. |
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| The top few teams may be promoted to a higher division, and one or more of the teams finishing at the bottom are relegated to a lower division. |
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| The teams finishing at the top of a country's league may be eligible also to play in international club competitions in the following season. |
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| After either ten batsmen have been dismissed or a fixed number of overs have been completed, the innings ends and the two teams then swap roles. |
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| In 1624, a player called Jasper Vinall died after he was struck on the head during a match between two parish teams in Sussex. |
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| Cricket is a bat and ball game, played between two teams of eleven players each. |
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| It is decided before the match whether the teams will have one innings or two innings each. |
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| In the rare event that the two teams both complete their innings and they have the same number of runs, then it is a tie. |
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| In this league, competition is between the top domestic teams from the senior cricketing nations. |
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| In Estonia, teams gather over the winter for the annual Ice Cricket tournament. |
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| During the early history of rugby union, a time before commercial air travel, teams from different continents rarely met. |
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| All three teams brought new styles of play, fitness levels and tactics, and were far more successful than critics had expected. |
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| As a result of the expansion to four teams, the tournament was renamed The Rugby Championship. |
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| Stricter rules apply to the pitch size for matches between national representative teams. |
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| Historically, British and Irish home teams played the Southern Hemisphere teams of Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, as well as France. |
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| When these servicemen left, the clubs and teams were kept alive by young professionals, mostly Europeans, working in these countries. |
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| The Six Nations is an annual competition involving the European teams England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. |
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| The Rugby Championship is the Southern Hemisphere's annual international series for that region's top national teams. |
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| Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field. |
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| The Rugby League World Cup is the highest form of representative rugby league and currently features 14 teams. |
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| Gameplay centres on a number of innings, in which teams alternate at batting and fielding. |
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| In these, teams bowl alternately, with each player within a team bowling all their bowls, then handing over to the next player. |
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| As of 2011, the INF comprises more than 60 national teams organized into five global regions. |
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| Men's netball teams exist in some areas but attract less attention from sponsors and spectators. |
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| In 2004, New Zealand and Fiji sent teams to compete in the Australian Mixed and Men's National Championships. |
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| By 2006, mixed netball teams in Australia had as many male participants as rugby union. |
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| Other countries with men's national teams include Canada, Fiji, Jamaica, Kenya, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates. |
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| It features eight regional teams from South Africa and is aimed at increasing the amount of playing time for players. |
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| The CNA championship involves two divisions of teams from the Caribbean islands. |
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| The major netball competition in Europe is the Netball Superleague, which features nine teams from England, Wales and Scotland. |
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| The World Series is a competition among the top six national netball teams, as ranked by the INF World Rankings. |
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| The result was the 1981 Concorde Agreement, which guaranteed technical stability, as teams were to be given reasonable notice of new regulations. |
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| On 24 June, an agreement was reached between Formula One's governing body and the teams to prevent a breakaway series. |
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| Different teams and drivers employ different pit stop strategies in order to maximise their car's potential. |
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| The sport's debut season, 1950, saw eighteen teams compete, but due to high costs many dropped out quickly. |
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| In the 2007 season, for the first time since the 1981 rule, two teams used chassis built by other teams. |
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| In March 2007, F1 Racing published its annual estimates of spending by Formula One teams. |
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| There have been controversies with the way profits are shared amongst the teams. |
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| The smaller teams have complained that the profits are unevenly shared, favouring established top teams. |
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| Allowing teams to share more car components such as the monocoque and safety components is also under consideration. |
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| England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland all field separate teams and are collectively known as the Home Nations. |
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| The female equivalent of hurling is called camogie and is played by teams from Northern Irish and London. |
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| Gameplay centres on a number of innings, in which the two teams alternate at batting and fielding. |
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| The national team is one of eight national teams to have won at least one FIFA World Cup title. |
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| In 1950, four teams remained after the first round, in 1958 eight teams remained and in 2014 sixteen teams remained. |
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| Two points were awarded for a win and one point for a draw, with goal average used to separate teams equal on points. |
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| In the knockout games, if the teams were tied after 90 minutes, 30 minutes of extra time were played. |
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| For any match other than the final, if the teams were still tied after extra time, lots would be drawn to determine the winner. |
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| The following 16 teams, shown by region, qualified for the 1991 Rugby World Cup. |
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| For that tournament, Germany was in the only group of three teams and thus only played four qualifying games. |
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| By this time the club had decided only to play teams outside Sheffield in order to seek a bigger challenge. |
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| It is also responsible for appointing the management of the men's, women's, and youth national football teams. |
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| All of England's professional football teams are members of the Football Association. |
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| Before this, teams from different countries had to agree to which country's rules were used before playing. |
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| Fixtures in the 12 rounds of the competition are usually played at the home ground of one of the two teams. |
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| The record for a club which has never entered The Football League is held by Altrincham, with 16 wins against league teams. |
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| Both teams would finish with the same amount the goal difference, but Arsenal scored more goals during the season. |
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| The argument given at the time was that the extra income would allow English clubs to compete with teams across Europe. |
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| The 10 surviving teams enter the group stage, joining 22 other teams qualified in advance. |
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| The number of teams that each association enters into the UEFA Champions League is based upon the UEFA coefficients of the member associations. |
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| The 16 top ranked teams spread across the biggest domestic leagues qualified directly for the tournament group stage. |
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| Prior to this, three preliminary knockout qualifying rounds whittled down the remaining teams, with different teams starting in different rounds. |
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| The top three leagues in Europe are currently allowed to enter four teams into the Champions League. |
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| The tournament proper begins with a group stage of 32 teams, divided into eight groups. |
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| Seeding is used whilst making the draw for this stage, whilst teams from the same country may not be drawn into groups together. |
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| The maximum number of teams that an association can field in the tournament has also been increased from four to five. |
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| As one of the most successful teams in the country, Arsenal have often featured when football is depicted in the arts in Britain. |
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| There were occasions on which fights would break out on the marshes in dispute of the teams that were allowed to use the best pitches. |
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| With the scrapping of the Intertoto Cup there will no longer be spaces reserved in the qualifying rounds for teams qualifying through that route. |
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| The related game Stoolball is still popular in the Weald, mostly played by ladies teams. |
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| The teams played a return match on the same ground at Easter, 1877, when Lillywhite's team avenged their loss with a victory by four wickets. |
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| Prior to this, England teams for home Tests had been chosen by the club on whose ground the match was to be played. |
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| However, replicas of the urn are often held aloft by victorious teams as a symbol of their victory in an Ashes series. |
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| England failed to win any series during the 1960s, a period dominated by draws as teams found it more prudent to save face than risk losing. |
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| In 2007 the tournament was hosted by the West Indies and expanded to sixteen teams. |
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| A total of twenty teams have competed in the eleven editions of the tournament, with fourteen competing in the 2015 tournament. |
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| Representative cricket teams were selected to tour each other, resulting in bilateral competition. |
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