2019 CONIFA European Football Cup

The 2019 Sportsbet.io CONIFA European Football Cup was the third edition of the CONIFA European Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA with an affiliation to Europe, organised by CONIFA. It was hosted by Artsakh.

2019 CONIFA European Football Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Artsakh (official)  Azerbaijan (location)
Dates	1–9 June 2019
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	South Ossetia
Runners-up	Western Armenia
Third place	Abkhazia
Fourth place	Chameria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	59 (2.95 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Batradz Gurtsiev (5 goals)
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The goal of the tournament was scored by Sápmi player Kristoffer Edvardsen.

Tournament

On 19 August 2018, CONIFA announced that Artsakh would host the 2019 edition of the tournament.^[1]

Stamp of Artsakh, CONIFA Cup 2019

The Artsakh postal authorities issued on 4 June 2019, a commemorative stamp for this occasion, which depicts as well the flags of participant teams in the tournament.

Venues

The tournament was held in 4 cities: Stepanakert (the capital), Askeran, Martakert and Martuni.^[1]

Stepanakert	Martakert	Martuni	Askeran
Stepanakert Republican Stadium (artificial turf)	Vigen Shirinyan Stadium (natural grass)	Avakyan Arena (artificial turf)	Askeran City Stadium (natural grass)
39.8210541°N 46.7532527°E / 39.8210541; 46.7532527 (Stepanakert Republican Stadium)	40.2166109°N 46.8210697°E / 40.2166109; 46.8210697 (Vigen Shirinyan Stadium)	39.7949688°N 47.1187198°E / 39.7949688; 47.1187198 (Avakyan Arena)	39.9381267°N 46.8389386°E / 39.9381267; 46.8389386 (Askeran City Stadium)
Capacity: 12,000	Capacity: 1,200	Capacity: 1,080	Capacity: 500
Stepanakert Martakert Martuni Askeran

 Artsakh

Participants

A total of twelve teams were scheduled to participate, with their seedings below.^[2] The seeded teams are Padania (winners of the 2017 CONIFA European Football Cup) and Artsakh, as the hosts of the 2019 European Football Cup. Abkhazia and Székely Land were also drawn as top seeds in Pot 1, based on their CONIFA rankings.

Sardinia entered in 2018 in CONIFA and it was drawn in one of the groups. However, in May 2019, it withdrew from the competition. The reserve team, in case one of the below teams withdraws, was granted to Kernow,^[3] but after County of Nice, Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR all withdrew, CONIFA opted to proceed with just 8 teams in 2 groups.^[4]

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Artsakh  Abkhazia  Padania  Székely Land	County of Nice  Donetsk PR  Sápmi  Western Armenia	Chameria  Luhansk PR  Sardinia  South Ossetia

Squads

Main article: 2019 CONIFA European Football Cup squads

Matches

Group stage

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

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Abkhazia	3	2	1	0	5	2	+3	7
Chameria	3	2	0	1	9	4	+5	6
Artsakh	3	1	1	1	5	7	−2	4
Sápmi	3	0	0	3	2	8	−6	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Abkhazia	3–1	Chameria
Maskayev 48' Logua 49', 74'	[citation needed]	Prendi 30'

2 June 2019

16:00

Askeran City Stadium, Askeran

Attendance: 500

Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

Artsakh	3–2	Sápmi
Mkrtchyan 3' Sargsyan 43' Malyaka 82'	Report	Zakrisson 24' Edvardsen 83'

2 June 2019

20:00

Stepanakert Republican Stadium, Stepanakert

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov

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Chameria	4–1	Artsakh
Çema 58', 90+3' Mziu 85' Gjoka 90+5'	Report	Sargsyan 83'

3 June 2019

18:00

Avakyan Arena, Martuni

Attendance: 1,080

Referee: Ivan Mrkalj

Sápmi	0–1	Abkhazia
	[citation needed]	Dgebuadze 45+2'

3 June 2019

18:00

Vigen Shirinyan Stadium, Martakert

Attendance: 1,200

Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

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Artsakh	1–1	Abkhazia
Mkrtchyan 33'	Report	Logua 8'

4 June 2019

18:00

Avakyan Arena, Martuni

Attendance: 1,080

Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov

Chameria	4–0	Sápmi
Mziu 5' Hoxha 22', 45' Çema 78'	Report

4 June 2019

18:00

Vigen Shirinyan Stadium, Martakert

Attendance: 1,200

Referee: Ivan Mrkalj

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
South Ossetia	3	2	1	0	6	4	+2	7
Western Armenia	3	1	1	1	7	3	+4	4
Padania	3	1	1	1	6	3	+3	4
Székely Land	3	0	1	2	2	11	−9	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Padania	4–0	Székely Land
Tignonsini 7' Corno 53', 78' Rota 61'	Report

2 June 2019

Vigen Shirinyan Stadium, Martakert

Attendance: 1,100

Referee: Ivan Mrkalj

Western Armenia	1–2	South Ossetia
Aslanyan 79'	[citation needed]	Gurtsiev 29', 56'

2 June 2019

18:00

Avakyan Arena, Martuni

Attendance: 1,080

Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

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Székely Land	0–5	Western Armenia
	Report	Badoyan 20' Hovsepyan 52' (pen.) Bakalyan 70' Minasyan 81' Aslanyan 90+1'

3 June 2019

16:00

Askeran City Stadium, Askeran

Attendance: 500

Referee: Arkadi Akobyan

South Ossetia	2–1	Padania
Gurtsiev 55' Bazayev 80'	Report	Ravasi 89' (pen.)

3 June 2019

20:00

Stepanakert Republican Stadium, Stepanakert

Attendance: 5,000

Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov

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South Ossetia	2–2	Székely Land
Gurtsiev 72', 84'	[citation needed]	Vékás 54' B. Kovács 82'

4 June 2019

16:00

Askeran City Stadium, Askeran

Attendance: 500

Referee: Arkadi Akobyan

Padania	1–1	Western Armenia
Colombo 69'	Report	Yedigaryan 67'

4 June 2019

20:00

Stepanakert Republican Stadium, Stepanakert

Attendance: 6,000

Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Abkhazia	1–1	Western Armenia
Khugayev 10'	[citation needed]	Manoyan 32' (pen.)
Penalties
	0–3

6 June 2019

18:30

Stepanakert Republican Stadium, Stepanakert

Attendance: 7,000

Referee: Ivan Mrkalj

South Ossetia	0–0	Chameria
	[citation needed]
Penalties
	6–5

6 June 2019

16:00

Askeran City Stadium, Askeran

Attendance: 500

Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

Third-place play-off

Abkhazia	0–0	Chameria
Penalties
	5–4

8 June 2019

Stepanakert Republican Stadium, Stepanakert

Attendance: 6,200

Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov

Final

Western Armenia	0–1	South Ossetia
		Bazayev 65'

9 June 2019

18:00

Stepanakert Republican Stadium, Stepanakert

Attendance: 12,000

Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov, Vitalii Mazin, Valerii Kravchenko, Aleksandr Demenko, Ivan Mrkalj

Placement round

Placement round 1

Padania	4–0	Sápmi
Colombo 4' Corno 45', 73' Ravasi 46' (pen.)	Report

6 June 2019

17:00

Vigen Shirinyan Stadium, Martakert

Attendance: 1,200

Referee: René Jacobi

Artsakh	2–1	Székely Land
Sargsyan 76' (pen.) Danielyan 90+4'	Report	Vékás 62'

6 June 2019

17:00

Avakyan Arena, Martuni

Attendance: 1,080

Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov

Placement round 2

Sápmi	3–2	Székely Land
Zakrisson 17' Laitila 19', 75'		Balint 35' Kovacs 55' (pen.)

8 June 2019

Askeran City Stadium, Askeran

Attendance: 500

Referee: René Jacobi

Padania	0–2	Artsakh
		Sargsyan 58' Malyaka 90+6'

8 June 2019

11:00

Stepanakert Republican Stadium, Stepanakert

Attendance: 4,400

Referee: Ivan Mrkalj

Final positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
1	South Ossetia	5	3	2	0	7	4	+3	11
2	Western Armenia	5	1	2	2	8	5	+3	5
3	Abkhazia	5	2	3	0	6	3	+3	9
4	Chameria	5	2	2	1	9	4	+5	8
5	Artsakh	5	3	1	1	9	8	+1	10
6	Padania	5	2	1	2	10	5	+5	7
7	Sápmi	5	1	0	4	5	14	−9	3
8	Székely Land	5	0	1	4	5	16	−11	1

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Player of the tournament: Batradz Gurtsiev Young player of the tournament: Kristoffer Edvardsen

Top scorers

5 goals

Batradz Gurtsiev 4 goals Federico Corno Arsen Sargsyan 3 goals Shabat Logua Markovanbasten Çema 2 goals Ibragim Bazayev Dmitri Malyaka Norik Mkrtchyan Edmond Hoxha Vilson Mziu Niccolò Colombo Riccardo Ravasi Benjamin Zakrisson Samuli Laitila Barna Vékás Arman Aslanyan

1 goal Georgiy Dgebuadze Dmitri Maskayev Alan Khugayev Narek Danielyan Samet Gjoka Fravjo Prendi Andrea Rota Stefano Tignonsini Kristoffer Edvardsen Botond Kovács Rajmond Balint Kovács Ákos Zaven Badoyan Vardan Bakalyan David Hovsepyan Davit Minasyan Artur Yedigaryan David Manoyan

Player of the tournament: Batradz Gurtsiev

Young player of the tournament: Kristoffer Edvardsen