2023 CONIFA Asian Football Cup

The 2023 CONIFA Asian Football Cup was the first edition of the CONIFA Asian Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA with an affiliation to Asia, organised by CONIFA.^[1] Tamil Eelam won the men's tournament beating Hmong FF to in their first title.^[2]

2023 CONIFA Asian Football Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Alcochete (Portugal)
Dates	August 4 – 8
Teams	3
Venue	1 (in 1 host city)
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Tournament

On August 2nd, 2023, CONIFA announced that Alcochete, Portugal will host the 2nd edition of the tournament and the schedule was provided for the tournament.^[3] A pre-tournament press conference was held on August 3rd 2023.^[4] A second stage of the tournament between Kashimir FA and the Pakistan All-Stars was supposed to be held later in the summer, but was cancelled.^[5]

Participating Teams

A total of three teams participated in the tournament.^[5]

Team
Tibet[6][7]
Hmong FF
Tamil Eelam[8]

Group Stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Tamil Eelam	2	2	0	0	6	2	+4	6	Advance to the final
2	Hmong FF	2	1	0	1	6	7	−1	3
3	Tibet	2	0	0	2	5	8	−3	0

Source: CONIFA

Matches

August 4, 2023 (2023-08-04)

7:00 PM CST (UTC+1)

Tamil Eelam	3–0	Hmong FF
15' 16' 53'	Report

Alcochete, Portugal

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August 5, 2023 (2023-08-05)

7:00 PM CST (UTC+1)

Tibet	4–5	Hmong FF
Lhundup 23' Norbu 54' 65' 90+3' (pen.)	Report	2' Yang 5' (pen.) 33' 36' 40' (pen.)

Alcochete, Portugal

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August 6, 2023 (2023-08-06)

7:00 PM CST (UTC+1)

Tamil Eelam	3–1	Tibet
4' 14'	Report

Alcochete, Portugal

Final

August 8, 2023 (2023-08-08)

6:00 PM CST (UTC+1)

Tamil Eelam	3–1	Hmong FF
	Report

Alcochete, Portugal

2023 CONIFA Asian Football Cup
Tamil Eelam 1st title

See Also

• CONIFA