2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy
Note: Flags indicate national union for the club/province as defined by World Rugby.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Italy, Call-ups
On 27 February, O'Shea named a 32-man squad for the final two rounds of the Championship; Dario Chistolini, Luca Morisi, Guglielmo Palazzani, Jake Polledri and Federico Zani were new additions to the Championship squad.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland
On the 16 January, Gregor Townsend named a 40-man squad for the Championship.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 22 January, Neil Cochrane was added to the squad as injury cover for George Turner who was injured in the final round of the European Champions Cup.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 17 February, Matt Scott and Tim Swinson were called up to the squad as injury replacements for Duncan Taylor and Richie Gray, whilst James Malcolm, WP Nel, Josh Strauss and Tim Visser joined the squad, replacing Murray McCallum, D'Arcy Rae, Magnus Bradbury and Nathan Fowles.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 5 March, Fraser Brown, Zander Fagerson, John Hardie, George Horne and Darryl Marfo were called up ahead of the Irish test in round 4, with Brown, Fagerson and Marfo rejoining the squad after recovering from respective injuries.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Scotland, Call-ups
On 12 March, Scott Cummings, Matt Fagerson, Adam Hastings and Richie Vernon joined the squad ahead of the final round game against Italy.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales
On the 16 January, Warren Gatland named a 39-man squad for the Championship.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales, Call-ups
On 25 January, Rhys Webb was ruled out of the Championship due to injury, Tomos Williams replaced Webb in the squad.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales, Call-ups
On 1 February, Scott Baldwin was released from the squad due to injury, ruling him out of the whole Championship. Ryan Elias was added as his replacement.


2018 Six Nations Championship squads, Wales, Call-ups
On 6 March, Rhodri Jones was drafted into the squad as an injury replacement for Wyn Jones.


2018 Six Nations Under 20s Championship
The 2018 Six Nations Under 20s Championship, was the 11th series of the Six Nations Under 20s Championship, the annual northern hemisphere rugby union championship. England were the defending champions.


2018 Six-red World Championship
The 2018 SangSom Six-red World Championship was a six-red snooker invitational tournament being held between 3 and 8 September 2018 at the Bangkok Convention Center in Bangkok, Thailand.


2018 Six-red World Championship
Mark Williams was the defending champion, but he lost in the last 16 to amateur player Mohammed Shehab.


2018 Six-red World Championship
The event was won by Kyren Wilson, defeating Ding Junhui 8–4 in the final.


2018 Six-red World Championship, Round-robin stage
Group matches were played from 3–5 September. The top two players from each group qualified for the knock-out stage. All matches were the best of 9 frames.


2018 Six-red World Championship, Round-robin stage
Positions within the group were decided by the number of matches won (MW) and then, in the event of a tie, by the frame difference (FD). Where two players were still tied, the result of the match between them determined their positions. Where three players were still tied, the top position was determined by a draw and the other two positions by the result of the match between those two players.


2018 Six-red World Championship, Knockout stage
The last 16 matches and quarter-finals were played on 6 September, the semi-finals on 7 September and the final on 8 September.


2018 Skate America
The 2018 Skate America was the first event of six in the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Angel of the Winds Arena in Everett, Washington on October 19–21. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final.


2018 Skate America, Entries
The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.


2018 Skate Canada International
The 2018 Skate Canada International was the second event of the 2018–19 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at Place Bell in Laval, Quebec from October 26–28. Medals were awarded in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. Skaters earned points toward qualifying for the 2018–19 Grand Prix Final.


2018 Skate Canada International, Entries
The ISU published the preliminary assignments on June 29, 2018.


2018 Skate Canada International, Records
The following new ISU best scores were set during this competition:


2018 Sky Blue FC season
The 2018 Sky Blue FC season is the team's ninth season as a professional women's soccer team. Sky Blue FC plays in the National Women's Soccer League, the top tier of women's soccer in the United States. Sky Blue had a difficult season in 2018 as they finished in last place. They went 23 games without winning a game, setting the mark for the longest winless streak in NWSL history. Sky Blue finally won on September 8 as they beat the Orlando Pride 1-0 in their final game of the 2018 season.


2018 Sky Blue FC season
There were numerous reports of off-field issues that came out after former Sky Blue player Sam Kerr spoke to the media following the Sky Blue vs Chicago game on July 7. Reports of poor management and training facilities as well as housing, travel, and transportation issues were also reported, and were believed to be contributing factors to the team's poor performance on the field.


2018 Sky Blue FC season, Team, First-team roster
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Skyrunner World Series
The  2018 Skyrunner World Series was the 17th edition of the global skyrunning competition, Skyrunner World Series, organised by the International Skyrunning Federation from 2002.


2018 Skyrunner World Series
In this edition, compared with 2017, the Sky Extreme and Sky Ultra races have been unified in a single category called Sky Extra. The calendar was announced by ISF in October 2017.


2018 Skåne regional election
Skåne County or Region Skåne (English: Scania County) held a regional council election on 9 September 2018, on the same day as the general and municipal elections.


2018 Skåne regional election, Results
The number of seats remained at 149 with the Social Democrats winning the most at 41, a drop of ten from 2014.


2018 Slough Borough Council election
The 2018 Slough Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Slough Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2018 Slovak Cup Final
The 2018 Slovak Cup Final (known as the Slovnaft Cup for sponsorship reasons) was the final match of the 2017–18 Slovak Cup, the 49th season of the top cup competition in Slovak football. The match was played at the Anton Malatinský Stadium in Trnava on 1 May 2018 between ŠK Slovan Bratislava and MFK Ružomberok.


2018 Slovak Cup Final, Road to the final
Note: In all results below, the score of the finalist is given first (H: home; A: away).


2018 Slovak Open
The 2018 Slovak Open was a professional tennis tournament played on indoor hard courts. It was the 19th edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It took place in Bratislava, Slovakia between 5 and 11 November 2018.


2018 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following player received entry into the singles main draw using a protected ranking:


2018 Slovak Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received entry into the singles main draw as alternates:


2018 Slovak Open – Doubles
Ken and Neal Skupski were the defending champions but only Ken Skupski chose to defend his title, partnering Jonny O'Mara. Ken Skupski lost in the semifinals to Denys Molchanov and Igor Zelenay.


2018 Slovak Open – Doubles
Molchanov and Zelenay won the title after defeating Ramkumar Ramanathan and Andrei Vasilevski 6–2, 3–6, [11–9] in the final.


2018 Slovak Open – Singles
Lukáš Lacko was the defending champion but lost in the second round to Egor Gerasimov.


2018 Slovak Open – Singles
Alexander Bublik won the title after defeating Lukáš Rosol 6–4, 6–4 in the final.


2018 Slovak local elections
The 2018 Slovak local elections were held on Saturday, 10 November 2018, to elect deputies to municipality councils, city councils and mayors, including mayors of boroughs and members of their councils in Bratislava and Košice.


2018 Slovak local elections
The turnout slightly increased compared to last elections in 2014 to 48.67%. The highest turnout rate was recorded in Prešov Region (53.18%), and the lowest turnout rate in Bratislava Region (43.74%). Locally the highest percentage of votes cast was in Chorváty, Košice-okolie District (89.88%, 80 out of 89), and the lowest in Košice's borough Luník IX (19.44%, 862 out of 4,434).


2018 Slovak local elections
In 762 cities and municipalities, only one candidate ran for mayor, therefore, these candidates needed only one vote to be elected. These included two cities with more than 20,000 inhabitants, Brezno and Šaľa. In five municipalities, there was no candidate for mayor.


2018 Slovak local elections, Electoral system
The commune elections in Slovakia use the one-round system for all elected seats. Mayoral elections utilize the first-past-the-post voting system compared to local councils where voters choose from the list same number of candidates as are representing theirs electoral district. The candidates with the highest number of votes are elected.


2018 Slovak local elections, Overall results
The following tables summarize the elected mayors and council deputies by their party affiliation.


2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Bratislava
The incumbent mayor Ivo Nesrovnal elected as independent candidate decided to run for second term, however, he was defeated by architect and civil activist Matúš Vallo, supported by Progressive Slovakia and Together - Civic Democracy who became new mayor and another independent candidate and former director-general of Radio and Television of Slovakia, Václav Mika.


2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Bratislava
Out of 17 new elected mayors of boroughs were 10 independent candidates and 7 candidates with the support of different centre-right coalitions - each with Freedom and Solidarity, We Are Family and New Majority.


2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Košice
The previous mayor, 2014-elected Richard Raši (SMER-SD), resigned from office after his appointment to new government as Deputy Prime Minister. Responsibility for the mayor office was taken over by Martin Petruško (SMER-SD). The campaign was influenced by rumored child harassment scandal of opposition candidate, Jaroslav Polaček that caused his loss of support from few major political parties. These rumors were later demented and Polaček won the election.


2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Košice
Out of 22 new elected mayors of boroughs were 13 independent candidates, 7 candidates with the support of different centre-right coalitions - each with Freedom and Solidarity and Christian Democratic Movement, 1 candidate of Direction – Social Democracy and 1 from Party of the Romani Coalition.


2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Prešov
Andrea Turčanová - the incumbent mayor elected with support of center-right coalition confirmed in February 2018 intention to candidate for re-election. Her biggest rival was the former mayor (2006-2014) and independent candidate Pavel Hagyari.


2018 Slovak local elections, Results in major cities, Žilina
Mayor of Žilina - Igor Choma (SMER-SD) announced he was not going to run for re-election. On the other hand, in Žilina occurred increased number of independent candidates elected to council. Election was won by Peter Fiabáne (NEKA) who was externally supported by both liberal and conservative center-right parties.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match
The 2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match was an international friendly association football match between the senior national teams of Slovakia and Denmark. The match took place on 5 September 2018 at the Anton Malatinský Stadium in Trnava, Slovakia. Due to a dispute with the Danish players' union regarding commercial rights, the Danish Football Union replaced the regular national squad, which had not lost a match in nearly two years, with an entirely uncapped squad consisting of semi-professional and amateur players from the third, fourth and fifth tiers of the Danish football league system, as well as futsal players. Despite the vast inexperience of the Danish players, and having only been called up 48 hours prior, the match only finished as a 3–0 win for Slovakia. The Danish team were praised for their performance in avoiding humiliation, especially futsal goalkeeper Christoffer Haagh, who made seven saves during the match.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
The fixture was the first match for Denmark since the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, where they were eliminated in the round of 16 by Croatia in a penalty shoot-out following a 1–1 draw after extra time. As the match is counted as a draw for statistical purposes, Denmark were undefeated in official matches since 11 October 2016, when they lost to Montenegro in World Cup qualifying. The Danish team were tied for 9th in the FIFA World Rankings prior to the match, while Slovakia were ranked 26th. The match was the third meeting between Slovakia and Denmark.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
Following the World Cup, the national team agreement between the Danish players' union (Spillerforeningen) and the Danish Football Union (DBU) had expired on 31 July 2018, and a new one was undergoing negotiations since the start of the year. On 20 August 2018, Denmark national team manager Åge Hareide named a squad of 21 players for their friendly match against Slovakia and opening UEFA Nations League match against Wales, taking place on 5 and 9 September 2018 respectively. The squad, which later had two more players added on 28 August, largely featured regulars of the national team.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
However, negotiations between the players' union and the DBU for a new national team agreement had stalled, largely over issues related to the commercial image rights of the players. The dispute arose as Hummel had the exclusive right to the manufacture and marketing of Danish kits. The DBU wanted to use individual players, without explicit permissions, in their advertising. After failing to meet the last deadline of 31 August 2018, the negotiations were suspended at the start of September.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
The DBU offered to extend the previous agreement for the September 2018 matches, thus allowing for the negotiations to be completed after the international window. The DBU wanted to avoid fines and possible exclusion by UEFA for failing to play their two scheduled September 2018 matches.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
The DBU were under a four-year probationary period with UEFA for having forfeited a Women's World Cup qualifying match against Sweden in 2017 due to a similar dispute with the women's team, and a further violation could have resulted in Denmark being prohibited from participation in either the Nations League or the UEFA Euro 2020. After no extension agreement could be reached by the evening of 2 September, the Danish Football Union confirmed on 3 September that a new squad and manager would be announced for the upcoming national team matches.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
It is a deeply regrettable situation we are in. Both for the team, fans and for everyone in Danish football. We had hoped that the players would show up when we offered them the same fees, bonuses, paid insurance and better conditions in terms of aircraft, food and treatment. Now we are working on getting the best possible players to play the two matches for Denmark. It is crucial for the future of Danish football. If the matches are not played, we risk huge fines and exclusions for both national teams – and Danish football will return to the Stone Age in many extents.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
On 4 September, the DBU announced an entirely uncapped squad to play in the friendly against Slovakia in lieu of the regular side. The DBU had decided to wait in announcing the team until the plane had left Danish soil, and airport staff had blocked to the view of the plane using two fire engines to prevent photographs being taken by the press. The search for a replacement squad was complicated by the fact that many of the players in Denmark's first and second divisions were also members of the players' union.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
Several players from the first division had expressed interest in playing for the team, though all later withdrew their statement due to fears over the pressure of potential harassment they would be subjected to. The replacement team consisted of a mixture of futsal players from the Denmark national team, and semi-professional and amateur players from the third, fourth and fifth tiers of Danish football league system. The team was assembled only 48 hours prior to the match. It was feared that the same squad would be used for the competitive Nations League fixture against Wales four days later.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
National team coach Hareide would similarly not be involved, with the side instead falling under the temporary management of John Jensen, a member of Denmark's UEFA Euro 1992 winning squad, with Hasse Kuhn serving as the assistant manager. Jensen had not met any of the players prior to travelling for the away match. In a news conference, Jensen said, "I had to start from scratch and ask each player his name and which position he plays on the field."


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
Expectations for Denmark were low due to the team's inexperience and lack of preparation, and because of Slovakia's full-strength side. Due to the weakened Danish selection, the entrance fee for the match were reduced to €1, and those who bought tickets in advance received a refund. The Slovak Football Association urged UEFA to review the situation and take appropriate action. Slovakia manager Ján Kozák was frustrated by Denmark's team selection, and said they would not have scheduled the fixture had they known in advance.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
We were looking forward to Denmark, the team has high quality, and our fans were looking forward... It is a team from the last 16 of the World Cup, it should be a challenge. The situation has changed, we do not know who will come... What is the point of sending this team to meet us? Does Denmark just want to avoid a fine? So that they don't have problems with UEFA? Is it possible for these players to return to the line-up to represent their country? It bothers me. From a sporting perspective, this match will not give us anything. We could have spent our time better if we had known this before. But we have to respect that they will start as the Danish national team.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
Slovakia captain Martin Škrtel was also disappointed in the opposition.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Background
We don't need to talk about that, it doesn't matter what players come. We know why we came here. We need to prepare for the duel with Ukraine, the match against Denmark will be important for us. We will focus on ourselves. For the third-league Danish players, it will be a great experience to play against footballers such as Hamšík, Lobotka, Škriniar. It's hard to judge, we don't really know what's going on. It's good that the players stand up for themselves, but on the other hand it is to the detriment of our national team match. It could have been a good match for them, for us and for the audience, but unfortunately it will be different. Strange and sad.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads
The age listed for each player is on 5 September 2018, the day of the match. The numbers of caps and goals listed for each player are those prior to the match.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Slovakia
Slovakia called up 24 players for the friendly match, as well as their opening UEFA Nations League match against Ukraine on 9 September 2018.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Denmark, Original
Denmark originally called up 23 players for the friendly match, as well as their opening UEFA Nations League match against Wales on 9 September 2018.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Denmark, Replacement
Denmark called up 24 players for the friendly match, replacing the originally selected squad.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Squads, Denmark, Replacement
All of the players on the team had jobs outside football, including the following:


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match
Prior to the match, a moment of silence was held for the footballers Juraj Halenár and Vojtěch Varadín, both natives of Trnava, who had died in the months prior.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match, Summary
Adam Nemec opened the scoring for Slovakia in the 11th minute of the match with a header past goalkeeper Christoffer Haagh at the back post, following a chipped cross from Juraj Kucka on the right side. Denmark managed to create chances of their own, including two in the 25th minute after Kasper Kempel's cross was missed by Christian Offenberg and a shot from 11 metres (12 yd) out by Oskar Høybye went over the crossbar.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match, Summary
Denmark held off the opposition attacks until the 37th minute, when Kucka registered his second assist of the match after laying a ball back to Albert Rusnák, who scored beneath the goalkeeper to put Slovakia up 2–0 at half-time. Denmark remained well-organised and compact, despite finishing with one shot on target and only 27% possession.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Match, Summary
The majority of the second period was played in Denmark's half, though the score remained unchanged until the 79th minute, when Danish substitute futsal player Adam Fogt scored an own goal past Haagh after failing to clear a low cross sent by Róbert Mak from the left and deflected by Michal Ďuriš. Haagh made seven saves in the match, helping prevent a worse defeat for Denmark.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
Following the match, the Danish team were praised for the result, especially goalkeeper Christoffer Haagh for his role in preventing Slovakia from scoring more. Reuters described the defeat as a "moral victory" for the Danish team and stated "31-year-old Haagh played the game of his life". In a press conference following the match, temporary Denmark coach John Jensen called the group of players "heroes".


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
We got 24 heroes who were called in about 48 hours ago. And [they] played in a very low division compared to Slovakia, who have got world-class players... I'm proud, I'm shocked. These players that were on the pitch, and also these players that didn't come on the pitch, the friendship and what they did was absolutely amazing and I will never forget this defeat. This is my best defeat in my career.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
In interviews after the match, many Slovak players expressed their continued frustration for the friendly being inadequate preparation for their upcoming competitive fixtures.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
The Danes have laughed at us and the whole of UEFA, such things should not happen, it is sad, but there was nothing we could do about it. This should not happen at such a level. We had a chance for more goals, even though they play in lower leagues, they know how to play football. If they close the space, unless you break them with quick goals, they resist the whole match.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
Maybe everyone thought, given the leagues in which they compete, that we should beat them 10–0. As a result, we managed it, we worked out the chances for more than three goals, it was not easy considering that they defended with ten players. The coach encouraged us not to underestimate anything and stressed to us that it was a preparation for the next match and so we approached it as such. I think that the match fulfilled its purpose, it is definitely better to play such a match rather than not play anything during the week. The opponent did not have the quality of the real team from Denmark, but we could not do anything about it and now we will concentrate on the match against Ukraine.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
It was such a strange match. We played against an opponent that we knew what they would be like. It was the hardest thing to do in your head. Luckily, we managed to score three goals, we won and the best part is that we already have this match behind us. I would not say that we were only disappointed, we were also angry. We were looking forward to a good opponent and we had to play against the rival we played. However, we must admit that we expected them to be worse than they were. On the other hand, everyone can defend nowadays. They were shut in and we had to push through them.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
On 6 September 2018, the day after the match, the DBU announced that the replacement players would return to their clubs, and a temporary agreement until 30 September had been reached with the players' union, thus enabling the originally selected squad, featuring the regular national team players, to play in their first Nations League fixture. On 9 September, Denmark won 2–0 at home against Wales in Aarhus with a brace from Christian Eriksen. On the same day, Slovakia lost their opening Nations League match away to Ukraine following a late penalty scored by Andriy Yarmolenko.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
Slovakia manager Ján Kozák would later resign the following month after over five years as coach, and the team was to be relegated from their Nations League group, but was ultimately saved from relegation by the format change of the Nations League for the upcoming edition. Denmark would go on to finish undefeated in their Nations League group, and were promoted to League A.


2018 Slovakia v Denmark football match, Aftermath
On 29 September 2018, the DBU and the players' union reached a new collective agreement for the men's senior national team, lasting until 2024.


2018 Slovenian local elections
Local elections in Slovenia took place on 18 November 2018. Mayors of all 212 Slovenian municipalities and members of municipal councils were elected. A second round of mayoral elections took place on 2 December 2018.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election
Parliamentary elections were held in Slovenia on 3 June 2018. The elections were originally expected to be held later in June 2018, but after the resignation of Prime Minister Miro Cerar on 14 March 2018 all parties called for snap elections. They were the third consecutive snap elections after 2011 and 2014.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
On 14 March 2018, Supreme Court of the Republic of Slovenia delivered a judgement regarding the railway referendum, held in 2017 on the construction of a second railway connection from Koper to Divača. In the judgement, the court annulled the results and ordered a new vote. The railway link was the biggest project of the Cerar cabinet.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
Later that day, Prime Minister Cerar announced that he would resign from the post at a press conference following a cabinet meeting. Cerar explained that he had resigned due to bad relations within the coalition between the Social Democrats (SD) and the Democratic Party of Pensioners of Slovenia (DeSUS) following a decision of the Supreme Court earlier that day, which he stated would slow down the infrastructural development of Slovenia due to strikes and demands of public sector trade unions. The following day, he sent his letter of resignation to the Speaker of the National Assembly.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
Cerar was the second consecutive Prime Minister after Alenka Bratušek to resign. The two previous Prime Ministers, Janez Janša (2012–2013) and Borut Pahor (2008–2012), were removed from the office by vote of no confidence, meaning that Janša's first term in office (2004–2008) remains the most recently completed full term in office.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
After the resignation of a prime minister, a new candidate can be nominated by the president. However, President Borut Pahor announced after a meeting with Cerar that he would not nominate anyone for the post. Members of the National Assembly also announced that they will not nominate a candidate, and called for early elections.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
According to the Constitution, regularly scheduled elections should have been held no sooner than two months and no later than 15 days before the expiry of four years from the first session of current National Assembly. Elections were therefore expected to be held between 1 June and 15 July 2018. Following the resignation of Cerar, elections were held on 3 June 2018.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
On 20 March 2018, the Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) announced that after consultations with President Pahor they were calling for elections to be held on 10 June 2018 and that they would nominate a candidate for Prime Minister to postpone the elections if needed.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
The Modern Centre Party (SMC) also called for elections to be held at a later date due to the ongoing procedure to adopt a constitutional law protecting the country's biggest bank, NLB, from Croatian actions in violation of international agreement between the countries as well as the upcoming process before the European Court of Justice on arbitration between Slovenia and Croatia. On the same day, independent MP Janko Veber announced that he would try and nominate himself for the position of interim Prime Minister, though none of the political parties expressed its support.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
At the time of Cerar's resignation, four investigative commissions were ongoing in the National Assembly. Two of them are investigating banks (one on why an injection of €3.2 billion of  equity capital was needed during the premiership of Alenka Bratušek and the other on the possible funding of terrorism through Slovenian banks), one is looking at corruption during the construction of the Šoštanj Thermal Power Plant (TEŠ6); and the other investigating corruption in healthcare system. All four commissions are expected to issue final reports in April and May, which must be approved by a vote in the National Assembly. Some current politicians are expected to be charged with responsibility for the scandals, including Janez Janša (SDS) and Borut Pahor (SD). It was suggested in the media that Social Democrats may be in favour of early elections so that the commissions could not finish their work.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Background
On 14 April 2018, after no candidate for the Prime Minister was nominated, President Pahor dissolved the National Assembly and decided elections will be held on 3 June 2018.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
The Italian minority representative in the National Assembly, Roberto Battelli, who has held the post for seven consecutive terms and was the only one to hold this position so far, announced on 16 March 2018 that he would not run again in the following elections. He was one of only two representatives (the other being Janez Janša) to be elected in every election since Slovenia gained its independence in 1992 from Yugoslavia.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
During the signing of a treaty with Russian company Gazprom to supply Slovenia with natural gas on April 13, 2018, the Russian Ambassador to Slovenia Doku Zavgayev publicly offered support to DeSUS. This was seen as a diplomatic scandal in Slovenia and an act that violated the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) according to Speaker of National Assembly Milan Brglez (SMC).


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
However, Foreign Minister and DeSUS president Karl Erjavec, a supporter of good relations with Russia, did not see the act as a violation of diplomatic protocol, saying that Ambassador only supported their program and that he hoped other ambassadors would also support it. The Slovenian media speculated that the act could have been pre-arranged between Zavgayev and Erjavec. Former Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel also criticized the Russian Ambassador, saying he violated Article 41 and Article 42 of VCDR, which explicitly forbids interference in the internal affairs of a host state.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
Chairman of the National Assembly Foreign Politics Committee Jožef Horvat (NSi) said that he had never seen anything like it. President Borut Pahor made no statement about the matter. This was the second time a foreign ambassador had interfered in Slovenian internal affairs after American Ambassador Joseph A. Mussomeli had offered his help in forming a government coalition after the 2011 elections, for which he was criticized by then-President Danilo Türk. Ambassador Mussomeli was later called for consultations by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to explain his statements. Then Ambassador of Slovenia to the United States Roman Kirn (now LMŠ) also met with representatives of State Department.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
On 19 April 2018, two Modern Centre Party (SMC) MPs, Branko Zorman and Bojan Krajnc, left the party after National Assembly did not pass Zorman's bill that would liberalize gambling market in Slovenia (which is according to Zorman under control of Social Democrats), saying that party supports corruption (Prime Minister Cerar personally intervened in the SMC Deputy Group and asked MPs to vote against the bill). On that day Simona Kustec Lipicer MP, leader of the SMC in the National Assembly announced that she would not run again in the 2018 elections. However, the party denied Zorman's accusations, saying that Zorman is not pleased with him not being one of the candidates in the 2018 elections and that Krajnc was not satisfied with the electoral district he would have run in.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
On 23 April 2018, Milan Balažic (NSD) accused President Borut Pahor of acts which brought Slovenia under the subordination of another country as he had signed the Arbitration Agreement between Croatia and Slovenia when Prime Minister. This is the second charge for President Pahor since 10 April 2018, when the National Assembly charged him in the Final Report of "TEŠ6 Investigative Commission". Solidarnost subsequently started a petition calling for Pahor's resignation. In response, Pahor said that he had already paid for these actions when he lost the 2011 elections.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
On 24 April 2018, Slovenian media reported that Matej Tonin (NSi) possess documents that prove that foreign minister Karl Erjavec (DeSUS) has worked for Croatia during Arbitration between the countries. Tonin revealed the documents and informed MPs at the closed session of the National Assembly Tonin also stated that he cannot release them yet because they are still a state secret. DeSUS accused him of lying.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
After submitting their candidature lists, some media questioned which MPs supported the lists of candidates of the Party of Alenka Bratušek and the party Good Country. Party of Alenka Bratušek has only 2 MPs (Alenka Bratušek and Mirjam Bon Klanjšček) and Good Country only has 1 MP (Bojan Dobovšek) to submit a list of candidates signatures of 3 MPs are needed. State Election Commission refused to announce the names of the MPs that supported the lists of candidates. Media also stressed that not announcing names of the MPs is against Good Country's efforts for transparency in politics.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
According to the media, one of the MPs that supported Good Country's list is Franc Laj, former MP for Modern Centre Party (SMC), now forming Deputy Group of Independent MPs in the National Assembly, together with Bratušek, Bon Klanjšček and Dobovšek. Names of other two MPs stay unknown, though some media speculate that Branko Zorman and Bojan Kranjc, also former SMC MPs, who left the party just before the beginning of the campaign, could have supported the candidature lists.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
MPs of Social Democrats and Modern Centre Party (Dobovšek was elected as SMC MP in 2014, but left the party soon after the elections) are also speculated to offer their signatures. Media later reported that SMC MP Vlasta Počkaj supported candidature lists of Party of Alenka Bratušek and Marija Antonija Kovačič, DeSUS MP, supported candidature list of Dobovšek's Good Country. The official election campaign began on 4 May 2018. The main topics of the campaign were relations with Croatia (arbitration, NLB), the public healthcare system, banks and corruption, hate speech, level of minimum wage and pensions, level of poverty and foreign policy and positioning of Slovenia in the international community, especially relations with the United States.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
On 5 May 2018, Slovenian media reported that list of candidates that United Right submitted in the 6th constituency (Novo Mesto) had been rejected because it was not formed according to the law, which stipulates that at least 35% of candidates much be of the opposite sex. United Right submitted a list with 7 male and 2 female candidates, but both female candidates would run in two electoral districts each. The party also contested the decision of the Electoral Commission of the 6th constituency in the Supreme Court, which rejected their appeal on 8 May.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
The incident is seen as great damage to the party since the head of the party, Aleš Primc, would run in this constituency. The Electoral Commission of the 5th constituency rejected the list of United left and Unity for a similar reason. According to the head of Unity Janko Veber, the Supreme Court rejected their appeal and he added that they would contest its decision in the Constitutional Court. However, according to the law a decision by the Supreme Court is final, said Director of the State Election Commission Dušan Vučko.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
Unity proposed delaying the election until the verdict of the Constitutional court after the Supreme Court rejected United Right's appeal as well and they proposed the same. On 14 May, the Constitutional Court rejected United Left's appeal. On 7 May, United Right's list of candidates in the 1st constituency was rejected as well for the same reason as the one in the 6th constituency since Metka Zevnik, another key candidate would run in this constituency, the party lost its possibilities to reach the threshold of 4%, Slovenian media reported.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
This problem opened a broad discussion on gender quotas in politics in Slovenia. The State Election Commission reported on 8 May that the list of Party of Slovenian People in the 2nd constituency had been partially rejected due to a candidate on the list that died in 2017 and was then removed. It also reported that the Social Democrats and the party Andrej Čuš and the Greens of Slovenia (AČZS) had put the same candidate on their lists.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
The candidate was removed from the list of Andrej Čuš and the Greens of Slovenia because the list of Social Democrats had been submitted first. Due to the removal of the candidate from the list of AČZS, the list in the 3rd constituency was rejected by the State Election Commission (DVK) on 9 May for not reaching the gender quota. Media stressed that two of the four members of the DVK who voted to reject the list were appointed by Social Democrats and SDP (which is the former party of Andrej Čuš). The Supreme Court annulled the decision made by DVK on 12 May.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, an ally of Janez Janša, came to stump with Janša in mid-May at a rally in Celje, declaring: "If Europe surrenders to mass population movement and immigration, our own Continent will be lost [...] The aim is to settle among us people who do not belong to our culture, and who will want to live here according to their own religions and customs". The Slovenian Democratic Party (SDS) would also run on an anti-immigration platform. One of the SDS's posters depicts migrants and refugees behind a stop sign.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Campaign
In a pre-election debate, a party lawmaker said that "no migrants means a secure Slovenia". Hence, a frequent topic of election debates was hate speech, especially due to Janez Janša and other members of SDS, who are frequently involved in discussions which include hate speech, especially on Twitter. Lucija Ušaj and Žan Mahnič MP, both SDS and candidates in the elections, were exposed because of their activity on Twitter, where they frequently publish statements that can arguably be recognized as hate speech against homosexuals, migrants, Muslims, or political opponents.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system
The 90 members of the National Assembly are elected by two methods. 88 are elected by open list proportional representation in eight 11-seat constituencies and seats are allocated to the parties at the constituency level using the Droop quota. The elected Deputies are identified by ranking all of a party's candidates in a constituency by the percentage of votes they received in their district. The seats that remain unallocated are allocated to the parties at the national level using the d'Hondt method with an electoral threshold of 4%.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Although the country is divided into 88 electoral districts, deputies are not elected from all 88 districts. More than one deputy is elected in some districts, which results in some districts not having an elected deputy (for instance, 21 of 88 electoral districts did not have an elected deputy in the 2014 elections). Parties must have at least 35% of their lists from each gender, except in cases where there are only three candidates. For these lists, there must be at least one candidate of each gender.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Electoral system
Two additional deputies are elected by the Italian and Hungarian minorities. Voters rank all of the candidates on the ballot paper using numbers (1 being highest priority). A candidate is awarded the most points (equal to the number of candidates on the ballot paper) when a voter ranks them first. The candidate with most points wins.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Parties and leaders
The table lists all the parties that so far expressed their intention to participate in the elections. SMC, SDS, DeSUS, SD, Levica, NSi, SAB, AČZS, DD and Unity are currently represented in the National Assembly. Not all of the following political parties will be able to take part in the elections due to the criteria set by the law (candidate lists supported with signatures of 3 MPs or 100 signatures in each constituency), especially the smaller ones; and some may form coalitions, such as Third Bloc and United Right.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Parties and leaders
Parties had to form their lists of candidates for each constituency by 3 May 2018.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Results, Elected MPs
Janez Janša became the only MP to be elected in every election since independence. Several former MPs returned to parliament, including Zmago Jelinčič Plemeniti (SNS) and Brane Golubović (LMŠ, previously PS). All presidents of parliamentary parties were elected except Alenka Bratušek (SAB) and Karl Erjavec (DeSUS).


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, Domestic
After the election, Janša stated that SDS would do everything in their power to form a stable government. He also expressed the opinion that it was impossible to form a new government without SDS. Articles in the journal Delo noted that although winning the most votes, SDS did not win the election as there is no easy way for them to form a coalition, especially due to the fact that Janša had acted divisively in the past, making potential coalition partners wary. Šarec was viewed as the key player, either as a potential coalition partner with SDS (a scenario that Šarec denounced) or as the next-in-line prime minister-designate in case of Janša failing to form the government.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, Domestic
Although losing a large share of the vote in comparison to the 2014 election, the result of SMC was viewed as a success as the party did not have a strong traditional voting base. In hindsight, Cerar's decision to resign as the PM was seen as a smart tactical move. The results of The Left and Party of Alenka Bratušek were seen as a success for respective parties while SD was seen as losing the votes to the Left. DeSUS got fewer MPs than in 2014, the alliance with Zoran Jankovič not having paid off.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, Domestic
NSi increased the number of seats but Tonin nevertheless offered his resignation to the party, not having fulfilled his goal of reaching above 10%. Party leaders Alenka Bratušek of PAB and Karl Erjavec of DeSUS did not get elected into the parliament. The return of SNS after 7 years of absence was viewed as a side-effect of the nationalist rhetoric in the media while Jelinčič publicly stated that he was interested in joining some government as a minister of culture. SLS, once an influential party that participated in several governments, again failed to reach the 4% vote threshold, likely at the expense of SDS. Marko Zidanšek, the party president, immediately resigned.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, International
Some of the European politicians congratulated Janez Janša for his victory, among them are Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission, Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Manfred Weber, leader of the EPP group in the European Parliament.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Reactions, International
Several international media, including BBC, CNBC and Al Jazeera, reported on the election result, labelling SDS as "anti-immigration" party and noted that a formation of a stable government will be difficult. The New York Times highlighted Janša's connection to Viktor Orbán, the PM of Hungary, who openly supported SDS, including with Hungarian companies financing the pro-SDS media.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly
The opening session of the National Assembly is expected to be held within 20 days of the elections. It was convened by President Borut Pahor, who announced that the session will be on 22 June 2018 at 11:00. The speaker of the National Assembly will be elected at the session. The speaker is usually elected among the MPs of the second largest coalition party, though this is not a rule. Milan Brglez (SMC) was elected speaker in 2014 and France Cukjati (SDS) in 2004.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly
First session will be presided over by Peter Jožef Česnik (SAB), who is the oldest of the elected MPs.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly
In the first session only temporary speaker of the National Assembly could be elected, since there is still not outlines of the new coalition. If Speaker will not be elected, Peter Jožef Česnik will become acting speaker until speaker is elected.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly
Deputy speakers of the National Assembly are expected to be elected later after official formation of the coalition. Two deputy speakers will be elected among the MPs of the coalition parties and one will be elected among the MPs of the biggest opposition party.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly
Before the constitution of the National Assembly, parties have to name temporary leaders of the political groups. Temporary leader meet with the previous speaker of the National Assembly to organise constitutional session of the new NA, including agenda of the session, members of the Commission for Public Office and Elections, which will convene during the first session to confirm mandates of the elected MPs, and sitting order. SDS surprised with naming Danijel Krivec instead of Jože Tanko, who led the group of SDS for the last 13 years.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly
A reason for that could be disagreements between Tanko and Janez Janša and his disobedience. For example, Tanko was the only member of SDS group that voted in favor of same-sex marriages in the last term and SDS later took part in the campaign against the law in the referendum. In SMC, there were also some internal dissents when party named Igor Zorčič as leader instead of Milan Brglez, who wanted the position himself.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly
On 18 June temporary leaders of political groups had a meeting with Speaker Milan Brglez to discuss the first session. Jože Tanko (SDS) was chosen to be named President of the Commission for Public Office and Elections.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker
Matej Tonin had support of the all parties, except The Left.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker
On 12 June, Marjan Šarec said that LMŠ will not propose a candidate for the speaker of the National Assembly. SD claimed the position, since it will be the second biggest coalition party, if Marjan Šarec forms coalition.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker
If Miro Cerar is elected Speaker it will be the first time that sitting Prime Minister is also President of the National Assembly. According to the Legal Service of the Government of Slovenia, positions are compatible, but only for a short period of time.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Constitution of the 8th National Assembly, Election of the Speaker
Before the first session Marjan Šarec stated, that Matej Tonin (NSi) will be nominated for the Speaker by LMŠ, SD, SMC, NSi, SAB and DeSUS.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
Pahor announced before the elections that he would grant a mandate to the winner of the elections. On 3 June, he repeated his statement and Janez Janša is therefore expected to be granted a mandate to form a coalition government, the third time he has had the opportunity to do so after 2004 and 2012.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
However, all of the centre-left and left-wing parties (LMŠ, SD, SMC, the Left, SAB and DeSUS) have publicly declared that they would not join a government under Janša and the SDS, meaning Janša can only form a minority right-wing government with NSi and SNS and would have to gain the confidence of either LMŠ, SD, SMC or the Left, or court both DeSUS and the centrist list of Alenka Bratušek.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
A centre-to-centre-left government under the leadership of Marjan Šarec is more likely to be formed, consisting of LMŠ, SD, SMC, SAB, DeSUS and NSi or the Left, though NSi is more likely to be invited to join the coalition. Because of the large number of parties, it is expected that it will be hard to form a government. Some of the political analysts have not ruled out the possibility of new snap elections in November if Šarec fails to form a government.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 6 June, Marjan Šarec met with Alenka Bratušek, meetings with Miro Cerar (SMC) and Dejan Židan (SD) were on 7 June. Šarec stated that he is willing to accept the mandate to form a government only if there will be a clear will among potential coalition partners to form a government. Dejan Židan (SD) stated that he expects that before leaders of the parliamentary groups meet with President Pahor to consult about granting the mandate, Šarec should already present the outline of the new coalition. Šarec also announced that he will soon invite all the parties, except SDS, for talks to see what are the possibilities to form a government.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 7 June, Pahor met with Janša to discuss his possibilities to form a new government. Pahor once again repeated that he is going to grant a mandate to Janša, but Janša said that if in the meanwhile another party will form a coalition that will have 46 votes, then he will not accept the mandate to form a government. Janša also did not explicitly rule out the possibility to stand down as potential prime minister-designate and let someone else from his party take the post and form a government, though this scenario is not very likely to happen.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
Pahor said that he wishes SDS would form a government since governments formed by parties that did not win elections in the past were not very stable, adding governments of Janez Janša (2012) and Alenka Bratušek (2013) as examples. Šarec replied that those two governments cannot be compared with his potential coalition since Janša's government was removed from the office because of the corruption allegations and Bratušek's government was destabilized by her own party, when Janković had to resign as leader of the party due to corruption allegations as well and Bratušek took over the party. Matjaž Han (SD) said in Tarča (political show on RTVSLO) that Social Democrats will not talk with Janša about forming a coalition since talks with Šarec already began.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 8 June, Marjan Šarec met with Karl Erjavec (DeSUS) to discuss future cooperation. Matej Tonin (NSi) also confirmed talks with Šarec. Meanwhile, SDS is still not commenting on their activities, but Tonin confirmed talks with them as well.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 12 June, NSi rejected offered resignation of president Matej Tonin, who offered resignation after party did not reach 10% in the election, which was Tonin's goal. The main reason for not accepting his resignation party stated that they improved their result and gained 2 new MPs.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
Media reported on 14 June that Modern Centre Party (SMC), Party of Alenka Bratušek (SAB) and List of Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) join into an alliance to form a central liberal bloc.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 15 June, SDS stated that they will draft a coalition treaty which will later be sent to all parliamentary parties as a basis for negotiations. Later that day, DeSUS rejected Karl Erjavec's resignation as president of the party. Erjavec offered his resignation after a very bad result in the election in which the party lost 5 MPs.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 26 June Executive Committee of the Modern Centre Party (SMC) ejected Milan Brglez from the party in a unanimous decision. Reason for that was his self-candidature for Speaker of the National Assembly, since Miro Cerar did not have support of potential coalition partners (LMŠ, SD, NSi, SAB and DeSUS) to become Speaker himself. Executive committee also blamed Brglez that he did not respect decision of the parties and has been making statements that were opposite to the statements of Cerar and other party officials. As example they added that Cerar supported US missile strikes against Syria earlier in April and Brglez did not and stated that these acts are against international law and Slovenia's constitution.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 2 July President Borut Pahor began first round of consultations with leaders of the political groups in the National Assembly. Danijel Krivec (SDS) said that SDS supports their president Janez Janša as candidate for new Prime Minister. Brane Golubović (LMŠ) asked President Pahor if he can make another round of consultation on Friday and that they have no problem with granting mandate to Janez Janša first. Matjaž Han (SD) and Igor Zorčič (SMC) said that they will only support Marjan Šarec as Prime Minister. Zorčič also said that they can join coalition with New Slovenia or The Left. Matej Tašner Vatovec (Levica) said that they do not support any of the candidates.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 16 July after meeting of the executive council of New Slovenia (NSi) its president Matej Tonin announced that NSi will withdraw for negotiations to form government under Šarec. Decision was expected, even though parties negotiated for almost 12 hours on 14 July to finalize the coalition agreement. Šarec told after negotiations that they were successful and that significant progress was made.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
After Matej Tonin (NSi) announced on 24 July that NSi will not further negotiate to form coalition under LMŠ, Marjan Šarec (LMŠ) announced next day that central parties LMŠ, SD, SMC, SAB and DeSUS will begin official coalition negotiations with The Left. Coordinator of The Left Luka Mesec confirmed that the party had received an invitation for negotiations. On 31 June, Levica refused to join the coalition but is ready to support a minority government.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 2 August Miro Cerar sent a message to members of SMC in which he expressed his doubt about stability of a minority government that could be formed, however he still stressed that they support Šarec as new Prime Minister.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
It was also reported that The Left presented a project of the government coalition of what they wanted it to look like, which did not have any ministries reserved for the Party of Alenka Bratušek, so the SAB decided they will not join a minority government with their proposed-ministers, but will support the government from the opposition in order to achieve a minority government with the backing from The Left.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
On 6 August, Marjan Šarec has said he expects to get the mandate of forming a minority coalition. Later on 7 August, it has been said that on the 8th of August, the LMŠ, SD, SMC, SAB, and DeSUS will “endorse the nomination of Marjan Šarec as PM-designate” and that there will be a vote on 13 August. Mr. Sarec is also hoping that The Left will also endorse his nomination.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
It has been said that the five parties want the SD leader, Dejan Židan, to be named speaker, if the coalition is formed, although it is not a requirement for the SD to join the coalition, it is a “tradition for the job to go to the second-largest coalition partner,” which would be the Social Democrats.


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
Forming a coalition will be in the end a question of positions for leaders and other member of the parties. Positions claimed by some of the leaders of the parties as their conditions to join coalition:


2018 Slovenian parliamentary election, Aftermath, Government formation
A government was finally formed on 13 September by a LMS-SD-SMC-SAB-DeSUS coalition with support from Levica.


2018 Slovenian railway referendum
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2018 Slovenian railway referendum
A referendum on a law governing the Divača-Koper rail upgrade was held in Slovenia on 13 May 2018. It followed the annulment of the results of a 2017 referendum on the same subject by the Supreme Court in March 2018. The result saw just 309 more votes cast against the law (50.06%) than in favour (49.94%). Voter turnout was even lower than in 2017, at around 15%, meaning that the requirement of 20% of the electorate casting a "no" vote to validate the referendum outcome was not met. As a result, the law remained in force.


2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background
On 8 May 2017, the National Assembly of Slovenia passed a law on with the construction of the second railway track from Koper to Divača, specifically regarding the financial plans for the project. The law was opposed by civil activist Vili Kovačič who, supported by several political parties and civil initiatives, called for a referendum to repeal the law. After collecting 40,000 voter signatures, the referendum was set for on 24 September 2017. Although 53.47% of voters approved the law, the referendum was marked by a low turnout of 21%. The project was expected to open first public tenders for construction in 2018.


2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background
However, Kovačič contested the results in the Supreme Court, claiming that the law regulating referendums and civil initiatives were not compatible with the constitution, citing the fact that the government had used €97,000 of public funds on the campaign in support of the proposed law. On 14 March 2018 Supreme Court delivered a judgement, annulling the results and ordered a new vote, which was set for 13 May.


2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background
The railway link was the biggest project of the Cerar cabinet. On the same day as the Supreme Court decision, Cerar announced his resignation as Prime Minister, leading to early elections being called on 3 June 2018.


2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Background
The proponents of the referendum expressed a wish for it to be held together with the early general election, thus ensuring a higher voter turnout. However, the Supreme Court backed the decision of the National Election Committee to hold the election and the referendum on separate dates.


2018 Slovenian railway referendum, Reactions
In first reaction, Vili Kovačič, who initiated the referendum, announced he was again planning to contest the result at the Constitutional court. Miro Cerar, the acting Prime Minister, and Peter Gašperšič, the acting Minister for Infrastructure, expressed their satisfaction with the outcome, stating that they expect the project to continue soon. Cerar further blamed Kovačič and Janez Janša for essentially holding the country hostage and delaying the project for a year.


2018 Snooker Shoot Out
The 2018 Coral Snooker Shoot Out was a professional ranking snooker tournament, that took place from 8–11 February 2018 in Watford, England. It was played under a variation of the standard rules of snooker, and was the fourteenth ranking event of the 2017/2018 season.


2018 Snooker Shoot Out
Anthony McGill was the defending champion, but he lost to Mark Davis in the first round.


2018 Snooker Shoot Out
Michael Georgiou won his first ever ranking title, beating Graeme Dott 1–0 (67–56) in the final.


2018 Snooker Shoot Out, Prize fund
The breakdown of prize money for this year is shown below:


2018 Snooker Shoot Out, Prize fund
The "rolling 147 prize" for a maximum break stood at £10,000


2018 Sochi Formula 2 round
The 2018 Sochi FIA Formula 2 round was a pair of motor races held on 29 and 30 September 2018 at the Sochi Autodrom in Sochi, Russia as part of the FIA Formula 2 Championship. It was the eleventh round of the 2018 FIA Formula 2 Championship and was run in support of the 2018 Russian Grand Prix.


2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election
The Social Democratic Party of Japan held a leadership election to choose the successor to Tadatomo Yoshida, who declined to run for another term.


2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election
Secretary-General Seiji Mataichi was the only candidate running for the post, and therefore was elected unopposed. Mataichi was inaugurated into his 2-year term at the conclusion of the party conference on 25 February 2018.


2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Summary
Contrary to initial prediction, incumbent Tadatomo Yoshida declined to run for another term as SDP leader, citing the need for the next leader to be an elected SDP lawmaker. As no one filed their candidacy before the original 12 January deadline, the submission deadline was extended to 26 January. In the ensuing weeks, party members pushed for one of its lawmakers to step in. It was anticipated that either Secretary-General Seiji Mataichi or the party's most junior lawmaker Hajime Yoshikawa would run for the leadership. Incumbent SDP lawmakers and Yoshida's supporters in the prefectural government in his native Ōita also urged Yoshida to rethink his decision and run for re-election, but he declined.


2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Summary
Following further consultations among SDP leaders, the party decided to support Seiji Mataichi to run as the next party leader. Mataichi's candidacy was officially endorsed by the party's three other lawmakers, Mizuho Fukushima, Kantoku Teruya and Hajime Yoshikawa. Mataichi submitted his candidacy on 26 January and was chosen unopposed as the next leader.


2018 Social Democratic Party (Japan) leadership election, Results
As Mataichi was the only candidate, there was no vote held and he was elected unopposed.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season
The 2018 season was the 104th in Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras' existence. This season Palmeiras participated in the Campeonato Paulista, Copa Libertadores, Copa do Brasil and the Série A.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Players, Squad information
As of the end of the season. Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Mid-season friendlies
During the break for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, Palmeiras will disputed three friendly matches, two in Panama and one in Costa Rica.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores, Group stage
The draw was held on December 20, 2017. Palmeiras was drawn on Group 8.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa Libertadores, Round of 16
The draw for the round of 16 was held on 4 June 2018, 20:00 PYT (UTC−4), at the CONMEBOL Convention Centre in Luque, Paraguay.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil
As a team that disputed the Copa Libertadores, Palmeiras entered in the round of 16. The draw was held on April 20, 2018.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil, Quarterfinal
The draw for the quarterfinal was held on May 30, 2018.


2018 Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras season, Competitions, Copa do Brasil, Semifinal
A draw was held on August 22, 2018 to define the order of the matches.


2018 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election
The 2018 Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council election took place on 3 May 2018 to elect members of Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council in England. This was on the same day as other local elections.


2018 Solomon Islands S-League
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2018 Solomon Islands S-League
The 2018 Telekom S-League is the 15th season of the Telekom S-League, the top football league in the Solomon Islands.


2018 Solomon Islands S-League
The league was originally to kick off on 21 July 2018, but was delayed to 5 August. A total of eight teams have confirmed their participation.


2018 Somali First Division
The 2018 Somali First Division is the 45th season of top-tier football in Somalia. The season began on 22 January and ended on 11 May 2018.


2018 Sopot Open
The 2018 Sopot Open was a professional tennis tournament played on clay courts. It was the 1st edition of the tournament which was part of the 2018 ATP Challenger Tour. It was moved from Sopot, Poland to Gdynia due to a problem with the facilities in Sopot. The tournament was played between 30 July and 5 August 2018.


2018 Sopot Open, Singles main draw entrants, Other entrants
The following players received wildcards into the singles main draw:


2018 Sopot Open – Doubles
Mateusz Kowalczyk and Szymon Walków won the title after defeating Ruben Gonzales and Nathaniel Lammons 7–6(8–6), 6–3 in the final.


2018 Sopot Open – Singles
Paolo Lorenzi won the title after defeating Daniel Gimeno Traver 7–6(7–2), 6–7(5–7), 6–3 in the final.


2018 Soul Train Music Awards
The 2018 Soul Train Music Awards took place on November 17 at the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. The ceremony aired on BET and BET Her on November 25, and was hosted by Tisha Campbell & Tichina Arnold, honoring artists in 12 different categories. During the award ceremony soul singer Erykah Badu was honored with the Legend Award while Faith Evans received the Lady of Soul Award for her contributions to the music industry.


2018 South Africa Sevens
The 2018 South Africa Sevens was the second tournament within the 2018–19 World Rugby Sevens Series and the twentieth edition of the South Africa Sevens. It was held on 8–9 December 2018 at Cape Town Stadium in Cape Town, South Africa.


2018 South Africa Sevens, Format
The teams were drawn into four pools of four teams each. Each team played every other team in their pool once. The top two teams from each pool advanced to the Cup brackets where teams competed for the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals. The bottom two teams from each group went to the playoffs in the Challenge Trophy brackets.


2018 South Africa Sevens, Teams
Fifteen core teams are participating in the tournament along with one invited team, 2018 Africa Men's Sevens winners Zimbabwe:


2018 South Africa Sevens, Players, Dream Team
The following seven players were selected to the tournament Dream Team at the conclusion of the tournament:


2018 South African presidential election
An indirect presidential election was held in the National Assembly in South Africa on 15 February 2018 following the resignation of Jacob Zuma on 14 February. Acting president Cyril Ramaphosa of the ruling African National Congress won the election unopposed due to no other party nominating a candidate. Ramaphosa was sworn-in by Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng at 5pm, 15 February 2018.


2018 South African presidential election, Background
Following the announcement of the resignation of President Jacob Zuma late on 14 February 2018, and official receipt of a letter of resignation by the Speaker of Parliament during the morning of 15 February, Parliament was convened to elect a new president.


2018 South African presidential election, Background
The President of South Africa is elected by the members of the National Assembly, the lower house of Parliament. The upper house, the National Council of Provinces, does not participate in the election.


2018 South African presidential election, Background
In a press conference before the session, Julius Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) announced that his party will not participate in the election.


2018 South African presidential election, Election
Shortly after the start of the sitting of Parliament the EFF objected to the legitimacy of the process, stating that parliament should be dissolved and a general election called. All members of the EFF then walked out.


2018 South African presidential election, Election
The Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court, Mogoeng Mogoeng presided over the election. He began proceedings by reading Zuma's letter of resignation. Parties traditionally nominate their respective leaders as candidates. Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the African National Congress and Acting President since Zuma's resignation, was the only nominee. Thus there was no ballot and Ramaphosa was declared duly elected.


2018 South African presidential election, Oath of Office
In a brief ceremony at Tuynhuys, the office of the Presidency in Cape Town, President Elect Ramaphosa was sworn in as the fifth post-apartheid President of South Africa, shortly after 17:00 SAST (15:00 UTC) on 15 February by the Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court.


2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team
The 2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team represented the University of South Alabama in the 2018 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The Jaguars played their home games at Ladd–Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Alabama, and competed in the West Division of the Sun Belt Conference. They were led by first-year head coach Steve Campbell. They finished the season 3–9, 2–6 in Sun Belt play to finish in fourth place in the West Division.


2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Previous season
The Jaguars finished the 2017 season 4–8, 3–5 in Sun Belt play to finish in a tie for eighth place.


2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Previous season
On November 20 following a 52–0 loss to  previously winless Georgia Southern, head coach Joey Jones, the only head coach in South Alabama football history, announced his resignation. He stayed on to coach the final game of the season and finished at South Alabama with a nine-year record of 52–50. On December 7, the school hired Steve Campbell as head coach.


2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Preseason, Sun Belt coaches poll
On July 19, 2018, the Sun Belt released their preseason coaches poll with the Jaguars predicted to finish in third place in the West Division.


2018 South Alabama Jaguars football team, Preseason, Preseason All-Sun Belt Teams
The Jaguars had five players selected to the preseason all-Sun Belt teams.


2018 South American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships
The 2018 South American Aerobic Gymnastics Championships were held in Lima, Peru, from July 10 to 15, 2018. The competition was organized by the Peruvian Gymnastics Federation and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.


2018 South American Basketball Championship for Women
The 2018 South American Basketball Championship for Women was the 36th edition of the tournament. Eight teams was featured in the competition, held in Tunja, Colombia from August 30–September 4.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League
The 2018 CONMEBOL South American Beach Soccer League was the second edition of the South American Beach Soccer League (named natively in Spanish as the CONMEBOL Liga Sudamericana de Fútbol Playa), a continental league competition for South American men's national beach soccer teams.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League
Organised by the governing body for South American football, CONMEBOL, as part of its Development Department's Evolution Program, all ten members of the continental confederation took part, with both senior and under 20s national teams participating in the league events.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League
The teams were first divided into two geographically based zones (North and South) to compete in a round robin tournament against other members of their own zone during the regular season; the points earned by both the senior and under 20s teams are combined. The winners of each zone then proceeded to face each other in the finals to contest the title.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League
Brazil were the defending champions and successfully defended their title, defeating Paraguay in what was a repeat of the finals of the previous edition.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Format
The league operates under the same format established for the inaugural season.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Teams
The ten member nations of CONMEBOL enter two teams each: their respective senior and under 20s national teams. In total, 20 teams will compete.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Teams
The numbers in parentheses show the South American ranking of each team prior to the start of the season (rankings only apply to the senior teams).


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, North zone
The North zone regular season event took place just outside of the Colombian city of Santa Marta. All matches were hosted in a purpose built arena on the beach of El Rodadero resort with a capacity of 1,500, in the town of Gaira, organised in cooperation with the Colombian Football Federation.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, North zone
The event was attended by a total of 12,500 people (avg. of 625 per match).


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, North zone
Matches are listed as local time in Santa Marta, COL (UTC-5).


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, South zone
The South zone regular season event took place in the largest city of Bolivia, Santa Cruz, in cooperation with the Bolivian Football Federation. All matches took place at a purpose built stadium at Villa Olimpica Abraham Telchi.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, South zone
Matches are listed as local time in Santa Cruz, BOL (UTC-4).


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals
The zone winners play each other for the league title; their senior teams play each other over two legs, as do their under 20s representatives for a total of four matches comprising the finals. The winners are the nation which accumulates the most points from all four matches combined.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals
The finals were organised to take place in Encarnación, Paraguay from 14–16 March 2019, in cooperation with the Paraguayan Football Association.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals
All matches took place at the Arena Playa de San José adjacent to San José Beach.


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals
Matches are listed as local time in Encarnación, PYST (UTC-3).


2018 South American Beach Soccer League, Finals, Matches, Tiebreaker
With the series tied after all four matches were complete, a penalty shootout was contested by the senior teams to decide the winners.


2018 South American Cricket Championship
The 2018 South American Cricket Championship was a cricket tournament held in Mosquera, Colombia from 23 to 26 September 2018. A men's and women's tournament held, with 2018 being the fifteenth edition of the men's South American Cricket Championship and the seventh edition of the women's event. For the first time, women's matches played at the South American Cricket Championship were granted Twenty20 International (T20I) status after the ICC granted Twenty20 International (T20I) status to matches between all of its Members; for women's teams starting from 1 July 2018 and for men's teams from 1 January 2019. Argentina were the defending champions from 2017 in both the men's and women's event, but fielded a developmental 'A' team in the men's tournament and did not enter the women's event in 2018.


2018 South American Cricket Championship
Mexico won the men's tournament, defeating Uruguay by 6 wickets in the final. Brazil regained the women's title, which they had previously won in 2015 and 2016.


2018 South American Cricket Championship, Men's championship
The eight participating teams were the national sides of Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and an Argentina A side. Costa Rica made their debut in the South American Championship. Matches did not have T20I status. Mexico won for the second time.


2018 South American Cricket Championship, Women's championship
The four participating teams were the national women's sides of Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru. All of these teams were ICC Associate Members, but Peru's squad did not meet eligibility criteria, so all matches other than those involving Peru had WT20I status. Brazil won the event.


2018 South American Cricket Championship – Men's tournament
The 2018 South American Cricket Championship was a cricket tournament took place in Mosquera near Bogotá, Colombia from 23 to 26 August 2018. This was the fifteenth edition of the men's South American Cricket Championship. Unlike the women's event, which took place simultaneously, matches played in the men's event did not have official Twenty20 International status. The ICC granted Twenty20 International (T20I) status to matches between all of its Members, starting from 1 July 2018 for women's team but not until 1 January 2019 for the men. Argentina were the defending champions having won the event in 2017, but were represented by a development squad, Argentina A.


2018 South American Cricket Championship – Men's tournament
The eight participating teams were the national sides of hosts Colombia, along with Argentina A, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Uruguay and Costa Rica who were making their debut in the South American Championship. Mexico went undefeated throughout the tournament and defeated Uruguay by six wickets in the final.


2018 South American Footballer of the Year
The 2018 South American Footballer of the Year award (Spanish: Rey del Fútbol de América), given to the best football player in South America by Uruguayan newspaper El País through voting by journalists across the continent, was awarded to Argentine midfielder Gonzalo "Pity" Martínez of River Plate on December 31, 2018.


2018 South American Footballer of the Year
The award is part of the paper's "El Mejor de América" (The Best of America) awards, which also presents the awards for South American Coach of the Year (Entrenador del año en Sudamérica) and the Best XI (Equipo Ideal), composed of the best eleven players at their positions. Marcelo Gallardo of River Plate was named Coach of the Year.


2018 South American Games
The 2018 South American Games was a multi-sport event that took place in Cochabamba, Bolivia. It was the 11th edition of the ODESUR South American Games.


2018 South American Games
A total of 373 sporting events are scheduled to be contested across a variety of sports.


2018 South American Games, Background
Bolivia, Venezuela and Peru submitted a bid to ODESUR to become host. Following a unanimous decision, the organization awarded it to the city of Cochabamba, as the other cities Lima and Puerto La Cruz withdrew their candidacies.


2018 South American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships
The 2018 South American Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships were held in Melgar, Colombia, October 22–29, 2018. The competition was organized by the Colombian Gymnastics Federation.


2018 South American Rugby League Cup
The 2018 South American Rugby League Cup will be held in São Paulo, Brazil and is going to be held on the 23rd to the 25th of November 2018. The tournament is the inaugural South American Cup. The teams participating in the tournament are Brazil, Argentina and Colombia. The South American Cup also includes a women's international between the Brazilian women's team and Argentinian women's team and a second division game between Brazil and Argentina, as well as an Under-17's match between Brazil and Argentina.


2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Brazil
Liniker Farias (São Lourenço), Rogério Simões (Bandeirantes Devils), Warlen Junior (Jacareí), Lucas Drudi (Jacareí), Douglas Parazi (Piratas), Vinícius Hideo (SPAC), Lucas Virias (Paraná), Leandro Caetano (Bandeirantes Devils) Jorge Cabral (Oxford), Gudemberg Silva (Bandeirantes Devils), Gabriel Eduardo (Paraná), Bruno Gil (Bandeirantes Devils), Zachary Grundy (Nambour Crushers); Interchange: Matheus Marinho (Bandeirantes Devils), Danilo Vieira (Templários), Johnny Santos (Portuguesa Futebol Americano), Branco Meneses (Portuguesa Futebol Americano). Rafael Góes (Jacareí), Caio Ozzioli (Bandeirantes Devils), Denes Cardozo (Piratas), Arthur Isaac (São Lourenço)


2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Brazil
Marcos Matioli (Rio de Janeiro), Leandro Pereira (C) (Tatuape), Djalma Dias (Tatuape), Diego Gonsalves (Piratas), Carlos Silva (Sao Lourenco) 6 Liam Piacente (Bandeirantes Devils), Victor Gerheim (Rio de Janeiro), Alexandre Arantes, (Sao Lourenco), Joao Victor, (Sao Lourenco), Diller (Rio de Janeiro Rugby League XIII), Fred Costa, (BH Rugby), Claudio Martins (Rio de Janeiro), Sergio Junior (Rio de Janeiro); Interchange: Joao Paulo da Silva (Rio de Janeiro), Thiago Navarro (Tatuape), Daniel Brito (Rio de Janeiro), Lucas Pires (Athens Itanhaem), Diller Nogueira (Templarios), Samuel Naassom do Nascimento (Bandeirantes Devils), Fernando Mazon (Parana)


2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Brazil
Carolina Palazzini (C) (Bandeirantes Devils), Camila Santos (SPAC), Juliana Modaneze (Bandeirantes Devils), Paula Ishibashi (SPAC), Grasiele Santos (Bandeirantes Devils), Aline Mayumi (SPAC), Danielle Missau (Pasteur Athletique Club), Andressa Conreras (Niteroi), Camila Giaj-Levra (Bandeirantes Devils), Brunta Lotufu (Bandeirantes Devils), Schwarleny Schwambach (Bandeirantes Devils), Kathleen Silva (Sao Lourenco); Interchange: Ketlen Oliveira (Sao Lourenco), Maria Graf (Desterro), Karina Araujo (Vitoria), Ana Claudia (Rio de Janeiro), Edna Santini (Sao Jose), Tatiane Fernandes (Lenks), Amanda Snaga (USP)


2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Colombia
1. Nicolas Medina 2. Daniel Vera Girdalo 3. Duvan Barrera 4. Hector Linares 5. Andres Pena 6. Alex Palomeque 7. Juan Camilo Bermudez 8. Steven Bedoya 9. Johan Bastioas 10. Mautricio Patino 11. Diego Vina 12. Sebastian Hernandez 13. Alejandro Munevar 14. Luigui Vanegas 15. Juan David Espinal 16. Alex Estman 17. Luis David Valencia


2018 South American Rugby League Cup, Teams, Argentina
Juan Ignacio Canepa, Marcelo Villalba, Emiliano Rodriguez, Ares Martinez, Ariel Cosso, Facundo Lizarzuay, Lucas Escobar, Gaston Barrera, Dario Moyano, Ulises Silva, Nahuel Lajmanovich, Leandro Donato, Sergio Espinola; Interchange: Dylan Moreira, Juan Carlos Blumetti, Ernesto Di Nucci, Leandro Kwiczor, Brian Avejera


2018 South American Six Nations
The 2018 South American Six Nations, or 6 Naciones Sudamericano, was the 40th edition of the rugby union tournament between South American national teams. This year the tournament was renamed South American Six Nations, replacing the South American Rugby Championship, which was last played in 2017. For the first time, the tournament had six nations participating, including Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay and Chile. Because of superior quality of their national teams, Uruguay and Argentina sent Uruguay A national rugby union team and Argentina XV national rugby union team, the nations' second national rugby team, for this tournament. Unlike the previous year, this tournament abolished a round-robin format and was divided in two groups: The West Conference, composed of Argentina XV, Chile, and Colombia; and the East Conference, made up of Brazil, Uruguay XV, and Paraguay. Each team played the teams in the other conference once.


2018 South American Six Nations
As the first South American Six Nations championship, this tournament marked a few milestones. Brazil was the South American champion for the first time, after defeating the Argentinian XV team for 36-33 in Buenos Aires. This was the first time ever a Brazilian side defeated an Argentinian side in international rugby union. Conquering the Championship was a milestone for Brazilian rugby, which have been improving ever since the 2000s and received more investments preceding the 2016 Summer Olympics.


2018 South American Six Nations
Also a first, reigning champions Uruguay decided to use a second team to play the Championship, failing to produce results as they finished fourth. Furthermore, this tournament was also the first time that Colombia entered a first level South American tournament. Like Brazil, rugby in Colombia is still a underdeveloped sport which have been going through a process of increasing investments and improving results in the sport.


2018 South American Swimming Championships
The 44th South American Swimming Championships were held from 7 to 11 November at the Pool Mansiche in Trujillo, Peru.


2018 South American Trampoline Championships
The 2018 South American Trampoline Championships were held in Cochabamba, Bolivia, from December 5 to 10, 2018. The competition was organized by the Bolivian Gymnastics Federation, and approved by the International Gymnastics Federation.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship
The 2018 South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship was the 6th edition of the South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Femenino Sub-17), the biennial international youth football championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the women's under-17 national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Argentina between 7–25 March 2018.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup in Uruguay as the CONMEBOL representatives, besides Uruguay who qualified automatically as hosts.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship
Brazil were crowned champions for the third time. Venezuela were the defending champions, but could only finish fourth.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Teams
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Venues
All matches were played in Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 28 February 2018, 12:00 ART (UTC−3), at the Estadio Aldo Cantoni in San Juan. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The hosts Argentina and the defending champions Venezuela were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2016 South American Under-17 Women's Football Championship: Brazil–Paraguay, Colombia–Uruguay, Chile–Ecuador, Peru–Bolivia.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 2001 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, First stage
In the first stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations Article 18.1):


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, First stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the final stage.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, First stage
On 11 March 2018, the scheduled Group A match between Argentina and Ecuador was not played as players from several teams showed symptoms for food poisoning. The scheduled Group B matches on 12 March 2018 were also postponed as a result. The matches were rescheduled by CONMEBOL with the first stage ending on 18 March instead of 16 March, and the final stage starting on 21 March instead of 19 March.


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Final stage
In the final stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 18.2):


2018 South American U-17 Women's Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup
The following three teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, including Uruguay which qualified as hosts.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship
The 2018 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship was the 8th edition of the South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano Femenino Sub-20), the biennial international youth football championship organised by CONMEBOL for the women's under-20 national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Ecuador between 13–31 January 2018.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship
The top two teams of the tournament qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup in France as the CONMEBOL representatives.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship
Brazil were crowned champions and maintained their streak of winning all eight editions so far.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Teams
All ten CONMEBOL member national teams are eligible to enter the tournament.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Venues
The matches were played in three venues in three cities.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 14 December 2017, 19:00 ECT (UTC−5), at the Casa de la Selección in Quito. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The hosts Ecuador and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2015 South American Under-20 Women's Football Championship: Venezuela–Colombia, Argentina–Chile, Paraguay–Uruguay, Bolivia–Peru.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Squads
Players born on or after 1 January 1998 are eligible to compete in the tournament. Each team could register a maximum of 22 players (three of whom must be goalkeepers).


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Match officials
A total of 10 referees, 20 assistant referees, and two support referees were selected for the tournament.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, First stage
In the first stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations Article 18.1):


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, First stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the final stage.


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Final stage
In the final stage, the teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order, taking into account only matches in the final stage (Regulations Article 18.2):


2018 South American U-20 Women's Championship, Qualified teams for FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup
The following two teams from CONMEBOL qualified for the 2018 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cup.


2018 South American U18 Championships in Athletics
The 24th South American U18 Championships in Athletics were held in Concordia, Argentina on 30 June and 1 July 2018.


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship
The 2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship  was the 2nd edition of the South American Under-18 Futsal Championship (Spanish: CONMEBOL Sudamericano de Futsal Sub-18), the biennial international youth futsal championship organised by the CONMEBOL for the men's under-18 national teams of South America. The tournament was held in Luque, Paraguay between 22–29 March 2018. Different from the first edition, it was played as an under-18 tournament instead of an under-17 tournament.


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship
The tournament served as qualifying for the futsal tournament at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, with the winner qualifying for the boys' tournament together with hosts Argentina which qualified automatically (if Argentina were to win the tournament, the runner-up would qualify)


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Venues
All matches are played in one venue: Centro de Entrenamiento Olímpico in Luque.


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Draw
The draw of the tournament was held on 19 March 2018, 11:30 PYST (UTC−3), at the headquarters of the Paraguayan Football Association in Asunción. The ten teams were drawn into two groups of five teams. The hosts Paraguay and the defending champions Brazil were seeded into Groups A and B respectively, while the remaining teams were placed into four "pairing pots" according to their results in the 2016 South American Under-17 Futsal Championship: Argentina–Venezuela, Peru–Ecuador, Uruguay–Bolivia, Chile–Colombia.


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Squads
Each team had to submit a squad of 12 players, including a minimum of two goalkeepers (Regulations Article 4.1). Players born on or after 1 January 2000 are eligible to compete in the tournament.


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Group stage
The top two teams of each group advance to the semi-finals, while the teams in third, fourth and fifth advance to the fifth place, seventh place, and ninth place play-offs respectively. The teams are ranked according to points (3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, 0 points for a loss). If tied on points, tiebreakers are applied in the following order (Regulations Article 6.2):


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Group stage
All times are local, PYST (UTC−3) until 24 March 2018, PYT (UTC−4) from 25 March 2018.


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Knockout stage
In the semi-finals and final, extra time and penalty shoot-out are used to decide the winner if necessary.


2018 South American Under-18 Futsal Championship, Knockout stage, Final
Winner qualifies for 2018 Summer Youth Olympics boys' futsal tournament.