Meanings of preliminary group in English

The final 12 games of the preliminary group stage will be played on Thursday.

They emerged from the Leinster preliminary group after a winter in Division Four of the National League.

The Knights prop was not named in Fittler's preliminary group on Sunday along with Cronulla's Wade Graham.

Having steam-rolled through the preliminary group stage, CSKA had plenty left in the tank and should have little trouble in reaching the playoffs.

Laois hurling manager Séamus Plunkett has endorsed criticisms of the Leinster preliminary group already voiced by other managers involved in the round robin.

Real squeezed through after winning their last three games to finish the preliminary group stage with a 5-5 record.

Although CSKA are still well placed with a 4-1 record midway through the preliminary group stage, defeat left their Italian coach Ettore Messina fuming.

IRELAND suffered an unexpected 84-73 defeat at the hands of Cyprus in their opening European championship preliminary group game in Reykjavik, Iceland, last night.

Teams were assigned to their preliminary groups by seeding based on their world rankings.

Ireland and Scotland, meanwhile, will hope to make it out of their preliminary groups after qualifying for the tournament.

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