Date not recordedLarge Division · Final
Tsinghua Hephaestus6
CAU Mountain&Sea2
Official
IllustrationIncheon 2026 · Tier 1RoboPodium editorial illustration. Not event photography, and not a depiction of any actual competitor or fixture.
Football
The Humanoid Soccer League's first world championship, at RoboCup 2026 in Incheon. Three divisions, Small, Middle and Large, set by robot size, all fully autonomous. Each division played Swiss seeding rounds, then a play-in, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals; in Small and Middle, the teams out after the Swiss rounds played on in a Consolation Cup for the lower places.
173Results held
56Entrants
3Divisions
Coverage state
Rules & structure: CompleteEntrants: 56 heldResults: 173 held
RoboPodium holds 173 verified results for this sport, published only after verification against their sources. No complete entrant list, draw or results feed has been verified, so this is not the full record of the competition.
Events
Verified results
Date not recordedLarge Division · Qualification
Water10
WHU United0
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division · Qualification
UT AustinVilla6
DUT Future3
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division · Qualification
RoboCIn0
KURA3
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division · Qualification
Robo-Erectus1
Bahia Robotics Team6
Official
Date not recordedLarge Division · Quarter final
Tsinghua Hephaestus8
Bahia Robotics Team0
Official
Showing 6 of 173 verified matches, in no particular order: this publication carries no dates. See all results.
Control policy
autonomous · requiredteleoperated · forbidden
Divisions
| Division | Eligibility envelope | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Large Division | Height ≤ 190 cm · mass ≤ 80 kg · BMI 5–30 | Size limits inclusive, from rule book sections 3.5.2 and 3.5.3. Three players a side in Foundation or five in Advanced, chosen per match. Twenty-two teams: four Swiss rounds, then the knockout, with no Consolation Cup. |
| Middle Division | Height ≤ 125 cm · mass ≤ 25 kg · BMI 5–30 | Size limits inclusive, from rule book sections 3.5.2 and 3.5.3. Three players a side in Foundation or five in Advanced, and Advanced from the quarter-finals on. Sixteen teams: five Swiss rounds, the same knockout, and a Consolation Cup for four. |
| Small Division | Height ≤ 110 cm · mass ≤ 15 kg · BMI 5–30 | Size limits inclusive, from rule book sections 3.5.2 and 3.5.3. Four players a side in Foundation or seven in Advanced, chosen per match. Eighteen teams: five Swiss rounds, then a play-in, quarter-finals, semi-finals and finals, and a Consolation Cup for the six teams out after the Swiss rounds. |
How a result is structured
Football result definition
OfficialOfficial result as published by the RoboCup Humanoid Soccer League. RoboPodium reproduces it unchanged.
- Two halves of 10 minutes, with a half-time break of at least 10 minutes.
- Four players a side in the Small Division's Foundation configuration and seven in Advanced; three and five in Middle and Large. If either team chooses Foundation, both play it. The Middle Division plays Advanced from the quarter-finals on.
- A game ends as soon as one team leads by 10 goals.
- Swiss rounds: three points for a win and one for a draw, ranked by points, then Buchholz, fine Buchholz and goal difference. Seeds 1 to 4 went straight to the quarter-finals and seeds 5 to 12 to a play-in.
- Knockout games need a winner: two periods of extra time of up to 5 minutes each, then a penalty shoot-out. No knockout game at Incheon finished level.
Known unknowns
- When each match was played. The league's results page prints no date or time. Its schedule gives the planned time of every match, but a plan is not a record, so every match is held undated.
- Two Small Division Consolation Cup pairings. The results give Berlin United v Colmillos ITAM and KHUBER v ITAndroids; the schedule paired them the other way. RoboPodium holds the results as published.
- Three teams the league lists as qualified, rUNSWift, Future Becoming and, in the Middle Division, I-Teen, played no match in the division listed. I-Teen played in Large.
Sources
- Revision v1.1.1 (2026-06-29) · retrieved 2026-09-29 ·
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