group stage

Language: en

📖 Definitions

  1. The initial phase of a football tournament where teams are divided into groups to play round-robin matches, with the top finishers advancing to the knockout rounds.; The preliminary phase of any multi-stage contest or evaluation process where participants are sorted into categories for initial assessment before elimination rounds.

💬 Examples

  1. The team struggled to advance past the group stage of the World Cup.

  2. All applicants must complete the group stage before moving to individual interviews.