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Football training

Source: Latvian TST for Baltic Way 2021 P7

September 25, 2021
combinatorics

Problem Statement

2222 football players took part in the football training. They were divided into teams of equal size for each game (11:1111:11). It is known that each football player played with each other at least once in opposing teams. What is the smallest possible number of games they played during the training.