2017 CONIFA European Football Cup

The 2017 ConIFA European Football Cup was the second edition of the ConIFA European Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by ConIFA. It was hosted in Northern Cyprus.

2017 ConIFA European Football Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Northern Cyprus
Dates	4 June – 10 June
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	Padania
Runners-up	Northern Cyprus
Third place	Székely Land
Fourth place	Abkhazia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	18
Goals scored	51 (2.83 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Barna Bajko (5 goals)
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Tournament

Following the 2015 ConIFA European Football Cup, the next tournament was announced to take place between 4–11 June 2017 in Northern Cyprus at the organization's Annual General Meeting in February 2017.^[1] A total of eight teams were announced as taking part in the tournament, planned to be held across four locations.^[2]

Hosts

Northern Cyprus

Nicosia	Kyrenia	Famagusta	Morphou
Lefkoşa Atatürk Stadı	Mete Adanır Stadyumu	Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadı	Üner Berkalp Stadyumu
35.213611°N 33.337778°E / 35.213611; 33.337778 (Lefkoşa Atatürk Stadı)	35.346948°N 33.26114124°E / 35.346948; 33.26114124 (Mete Adanır Stadyumu)	35.1194332°N 33.9517383°E / 35.1194332; 33.9517383 (Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadı)	35.2061244°N 32.9918883°E / 35.2061244; 32.9918883 (Zafer Stadı)
Capacity: 28,000	Capacity: 1,500	Capacity: 7,000	Capacity: 7,000
Nicosia Kyrenia Famagusta Morphou

Participants

A total of eight teams were announced as participating – both the current European Football Cup holders Padania and reigning World Football Cup champions Abkhazia were automatically qualified, with the remainder voted on by ConIFA members.^[1]

•  Abkhazia
•  Northern Cyprus
•  Sápmi
•  Occitania
•  County of Nice
•  Ellan Vannin
•  Padania
•  Székely Land

Withdrawals

Subsequent to the announcement of the eight participants, three then withdrew:

• Sapmi withdrew and were replaced by South Ossetia.
• County of Nice withdrew and were replaced by Felvidék.
• Occitania withdrew and were replaced by Kárpátalja.

Squad

Main article: 2017 ConIFA European Football Cup squads

Matches

Group stage

The results of the group stage draw:

Key to colours in group tables
	Teams that advanced to the semi-finals

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Northern Cyprus (Q)	3	2	1	0	9	0	+9	7
Abkhazia (Q)	3	1	2	0	4	3	+1	5
Kárpátalja	3	1	1	1	6	4	+2	4
South Ossetia	3	0	0	3	2	14	−12	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

4 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Northern Cyprus	1–0	Kárpátalja
Yaşınses 89'

Atatürk Stadium, Nicosia

5 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Abkhazia	2–1	South Ossetia
Kortava 1' Shoniya 90+1'		Kadjaev 61'

Mete Adanır Stadium, Kyrenia

6 June 2017

20:00 EEST

South Ossetia	0–8	Northern Cyprus
		Yaşınses 13' Taşkıran 15', 20', 58' Çıdamlı 57', 68' Turan 62' (pen.) Gök 88'

Mete Adanır Stadium, Kyrenia

6 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Kárpátalja	2–2	Abkhazia
Szabó 33' Roman 77'		Anatoli Semyonov 20', 50'

Atatürk Stadium, Nicosia

7 June 2017

20:00 EEST

South Ossetia	1–4	Kárpátalja
Kochiev 85'		Mile 20' Baksa 33' Barta 45+1' Kész 62'

Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadium, Famagusta

7 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Northern Cyprus	0–0	Abkhazia

Üner Berkalp Stadium, Morphou

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Padania (Q)	3	2	1	0	4	1	+3	7
Székely Land (Q)	3	1	1	1	5	4	+1	4
Ellan Vannin	3	1	0	2	3	5	−2	3
Felvidék	3	1	0	2	1	3	−2	3

Source: ^{[citation needed]}
(Q) Qualified for the phase indicated

5 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Padania	1–0	Ellan Vannin
Rota 70'

Üner Berkalp Stadium, Morphou

5 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Felvidék	1–0	Székely Land
Križan 55'

Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadium, Famagusta

6 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Székely Land	1–1	Padania
Szőcs 81'		Rota 8'

Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadium, Famagusta

6 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Ellan Vannin	1–0	Felvidék
Bass 52'

Üner Berkalp Stadium, Morphou

7 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Ellan Vannin	2–4	Székely Land
McNultey 79', 86'		Bajkó 13', 36', 69' (pen.), 75'

Mete Adanır Stadium, Kyrenia

7 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Padania	2–0	Felvidék
Rota 62' Rosset 90'

Atatürk Stadium, Nicosia

Knockout stage

Bracket

	Semi-finals				Final
	9 June – Kyrenia
	Padania	0 (6)
					10 June – Nicosia
	Abkhazia	0 (5)
					Padania	1 (3)
	9 June – Nicosia
					Northern Cyprus	1 (2)
	Northern Cyprus	2
	Székely Land	1
					Third place
					10 June – Kyrenia
					Abkhazia	1
					Székely Land	3

Placement round

9 June 2017

20:00 EEST

South Ossetia	0–2	Felvidék
		Molnár 5', 42'

Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadium, Famagusta

9 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Kárpátalja	3–3	Ellan Vannin
Kelly 2' (o.g.) Fodor 30' Kész 61'		Cown 23' Cannell 61' Doyle 83'
Penalties
	5–4

Üner Berkalp Stadium, Morphou

Semi-finals

9 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Northern Cyprus	2–1	Székely Land
Onet 16' Turan 83'		Silion 49'

Atatürk Stadium, Nicosia

9 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Padania	0–0	Abkhazia
Penalties
	6–5

Mete Adanır Stadium, Kyrenia

Third-place play-off

10 June 2017

18:00 EEST

Székely Land	3–1	Abkhazia
Csürös 9' Szőcs 24' Bajkó 36'		Kortava 3'

Mete Adanır Stadium, Kyrenia

Final

10 June 2017

20:00 EEST

Padania	1–1	Northern Cyprus
Pllumbaj 23'		Turan 52'
Penalties
	4–2

Atatürk Stadium, Nicosia

Final positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	Padania	5	2	3	0	5	2	+3	9
2	Northern Cyprus	5	3	2	0	12	2	+10	11
3	Székely Land	5	2	1	2	9	7	+2	7
4	Abkhazia	5	1	3	1	5	6	−1	6
5	Kárpátalja	4	1	2	1	9	7	+2	5
6	Ellan Vannin	4	1	1	2	6	8	−2	4
7	Felvidék	4	2	0	2	3	3	0	6
8	South Ossetia	4	0	0	4	2	16	−14	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Top scorers

5 goals

• Barna Bajkó

3 goals

• Ertaç Taşkıran
• Halil Turan
• Andrea Rota

2 goals

• Dmitri Kortava
• Anatoli Semyonov
• Ciaran McNultey
• Attila Molnár
• Tibor Kész
• László Szőcs
• İbrahim Çıdamlı
• Mustafa Yaşınses

1 goal

• Ruslan Shoniya
• Chriss Bass, Jr
• Liam Cowin
• Chris Cannell
• Sean Doyle
• Richard Križan
• Ferenc Barta
• Krisztián Mile
• Roland Szabó
• Ohar Roman
• Zoltán Baksa
• Norbert Fodor
• Uğur Gök
• Serhan Önet
• Ersid Plumbaj
• William Rosset
• Alan Kadjaev
• Solsan Kochiev
• Attila Csürös
• Petru Silion

Own goals

• Marc Kelly (in match Kárpátalja – Ellan Vannin)