2017 CONIFA European Football Cup
# 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.

## 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. A total of eight teams were announced as taking part in the tournament, planned to be held across four locations.

### Hosts

Northern Cyprus

| Nicosia | Kyrenia | Famagusta | Morphou |
| - | - | - | - |
| Lefkoşa Atatürk Stadı | Mete Adanır Stadyumu | Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadı | Üner Berkalp Stadyumu |
| 35°12′49″N 33°20′16″E﻿ / ﻿35.213611°N 33.337778°E﻿ / 35.213611; 33.337778﻿ (Lefkoşa Atatürk Stadı) | 35°20′49″N 33°15′40″E﻿ / ﻿35.346948°N 33.26114124°E﻿ / 35.346948; 33.26114124﻿ (Mete Adanır Stadyumu) | 35°07′10″N 33°57′06″E﻿ / ﻿35.1194332°N 33.9517383°E﻿ / 35.1194332; 33.9517383﻿ (Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadı) | 35°12′22″N 32°59′31″E﻿ / ﻿35.2061244°N 32.9918883°E﻿ / 35.2061244; 32.9918883﻿ (Zafer Stadı) |
| Capacity: 28,000 | Capacity: 1,500 | Capacity: 7,000 | Capacity: 7,000 |
| NicosiaKyreniaFamagustaMorphou ||||

## 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.

* 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.

## 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 |

**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 |

### Knockout stage

**Bracket**

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

## 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 |

## 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)
