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 NicosiaKyreniaFamagustaMorphouLefkoşa Atatürk StadıMete Adanır StadyumuDr. Fazıl Küçük StadıÜner Berkalp StadyumuCapacity: 28,000Capacity: 1,500Capacity: 7,000Capacity: 7,000
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.
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
Matches
Group stage The results of the group stage draw:
Key to colours in group tablesTeams that advanced to the semi-finals Group A
Group B
Knockout stage
Bracket
Placement round
Semi-finals
Third-place play-off
Final
Final positions
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)
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