What is 'placeholder team'?

For some matches, two playing teams for this match need to be determined by the last round winner. However, the last round winner has not been determined either. For this time, in order to provide the match schedule in advance, we will use the 'placeholder team' as the home/away team for this match.

What kinds of competitions will use 'placeholder team'?

Only some of the hot competitions or high-level competitions will use 'placeholder team' for undetermined matches, such as FIFA Club World Cup.

Other competitions will not create the match schedules for this situation, until all information has been determined.

How to check whether the team is the 'placeholder team'?

The name for 'placeholder team' is obvious and easy to detect.

For example, 'A1' means the first position for group A and 'Winner of SF1' means the winner for the first semi-finals match.

Since there are many different kinds of matches and rounds, we can NOT provide the list for all 'placeholder team' name.

Sample for 'placeholder team':

Take FIFA Club World Cup (competition id: 9vjxm8ghllzr6od) as an example:

The final match for 2025 has not been determined on 18 Feb, 2025. It uses 'placeholder team' as the home team and away team.