CONIFA European Football Championship

CONIFA European Football Championship
Full name	CONIFA Europe Football Cup
abbreviation	EFM
Association	CONIFA
First edition	2015
Teams	8 (since 2017)
Game mode	Round tournament  (2 groups of 4 teams each) Knockout system (from semi-finals)
Title holder	South Ossetia (1st title)
Record winner	Padania (2 tracks)
Website	conifa.org

The CONIFA European Football Championship is a football tournament for European members of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). This consists largely of independent states that are not members of FIFA , dependent states , minorities and micronations as well as other areas enjoying a certain degree of autonomy . The name European football championship has been chosen as the FIFA the rights to the concept of European Football Championship holding. The CONIFA European Football Championship has been held every two years since 2015. In the intervening years, the CONIFA World Football Championship has been taking place since 2014 .

Award

The allocation of the EFM is agreed internally. In 2015, the rights to host the Ellan Vannin Association were awarded to Douglas . For organizational reasons, however, the greater part of the competition should have been held in London . When financial problems finally arose, the hosting rights were transferred to the Szeklerland , which planned to host it in Budapest , but eventually moved to Debrecen .

qualification

In the previous European football championships, the participants were determined internally through a vote. Only the host and in 2017 the reigning title holder Padania were guaranteed starting places.

Finals

After various cancellations, only six teams took part in the first event instead of twelve. These were drawn in two groups of three teams each. Each team played one game against both group opponents in the group stage. The last two placed then played a game for 5th place, while the two group winners played a semi-final against the runners-up of the other group, followed by a final and a game for 3rd place. 2017 was planned with eight teams, with another team moving up for cancellations. Each team in the two groups of four played a game against the group opponents, followed by the game for place 7 between the bottom of the group and the game for place 5 between the group penultimate. The group winners played again against the runners-up in the semi-finals, followed by the final and the third place match.

European football championships

year	host	final			3rd place match
		First	Result	Second	Third	Result	Fourth
2015	Debrecen	Padania	4: 1	Nice county	Ellan Vannin	5: 3 i. E. (1: 1)	Felvidék
2017	Northern Cyprus	Padania	5: 3 i. E. (1: 1)	Northern Cyprus	Szeklerland	3: 1	Abkhazia
2019	Artsakh Republic	South Ossetia	1-0	Western Armenian	Abkhazia	0: 0 i. E. (5: 4)	Chameria

Eternal table

#	team	Participation	Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	Goals conceded	difference	Points	title
1.	Padania	2	9	6th	3	0	18th	5	+13	21st	2
2.	Northern Cyprus	1	5	3	2	0	12	2	+10	11	0
3.	Felvidék	2	8th	3	1	4th	8th	14th	−6	10	0
4th	Nice county	1	4th	3	0	1	11	8th	+3	9	0
5.	Ellan Vannin	2	8th	2	2	4th	11	14th	−3	8th	0
6th	Szeklerland	2	8th	2	1	5	14th	17th	−3	7th	0
7th	Abkhazia	1	5	1	3	1	5	6th	−1	6th	0
8th.	Carpathian Ukraine	1	4th	1	2	1	9	7th	+2	5	0
9.	Roma	1	3	1	0	2	7th	8th	−1	3	0
10.	South Ossetia	1	4th	0	0	4th	2	15th	−13	0	0

Records

Supreme victory

• Northern Cyprus 8-0 South Ossetia (6 June 2017, preliminary round)

Highest draw

• Ellan Vannin 3-3 Carpathian Ukraine (9 June 2017, play for 5th place)

Most goals

• 13 (Padania, 2015)

Most goals conceded

• 15 (South Ossetia, 2017)

Fewest goals

• 2 (South Ossetia, 2017)

Fewest goals conceded

• 2 (Padania, 2017)
• 2 (Northern Cyprus, 2017)

Best difference

• +10 (Padania, 2015)
• +10 (Northern Cyprus, 2017)

Worst difference

• −13 (South Ossetia, 2017)

Highest Score

• 12 (Padania, 2015)

Record winner

• 2 (Padania, 2015, 2017)

Most participations

• 2 (Padania, 2015, 2017)
• 2 (Felvidék, 2015, 2017)
• 2 (Ellan Vannin, 2015, 2017)
• 2 (Szeklerland, 2015, 2017)

See also

• European Football Championship
• CONIFA World Football Championship