2014 ConIFA World Football Cup

The 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup was the first edition of the ConIFA World Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by ConIFA and a successor of Viva World Cup, last held in 2012. The tournament was hosted by FA Sápmi in the Sápmi region, with all games held in the city of Östersund in Sweden.

2014 ConIFA World Football Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Sweden (Host association: Sápmi)
Dates	1 June – 8 June
Teams	12
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	County of Nice (1st title)
Runners-up	Ellan Vannin
Third place	Arameans Suryoye
Fourth place	South Ossetia
Tournament statistics
Matches played	28
Goals scored	140 (5 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Artur Elbaev (9 goals)
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Tournament

Twelve teams took part in the tournament.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]} Catalonia^[7] and Rapa Nui^[8] were thought to be potential participants, but ultimately declined or withdrew.

Hosts

In May 2013 ConIFA announced that Sápmi had been chosen to host the inaugural ConIFA World Football Cup in Östersund, Sweden. It was an invitational tournament^[9] played between 1 and 8 June 2014,^[10] with all matches being held in the 6626-capacity Jämtkraft Arena.^[11]

 Sápmi

Östersund
Jämtkraft Arena
63°11′41.47″N 14°39′21.05″E
Capacity: 6,626
Östersund

In parallel with the tournament, a festival celebrating the cultural diversity of the teams involved was held in Östersund.^[12]

Participants

The twelve participating teams were drawn into the four groups of three teams each for the group stage. In preparation for this, the teams were organised into three pots.^[13] The draw was made by ConIFA World President Per-Anders Blind in Östersund on 24 March 2014.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3
Kurdistan Region[14]  Padania[15]  Sápmi[16]  Zanzibar[10]	Arameans Suryoye[10]  Nagorno-Karabakh[10]  Occitania[17][18]  Quebec[19][20][21]	Abkhazia[10] Darfur[22] Ellan Vannin[23]  Tamil Eelam[10]

Of the twelve invited teams, eight had previously participated at the Viva World Cup.^[13]

Withdrawals

The draw initially placed Quebec in Group C and Zanzibar in Group D. However, in May 2014, it was announced that both Quebec and Zanzibar had withdrawn from the tournament. The Quebec team had affiliated with the Fédération de soccer du Québec, with the intention that the FSQ eventually apply for membership of CONCACAF. To this end, the team will only play internationals against full national teams that are members of either CONCACAF or FIFA, and will no longer participate in Non-FIFA Football.^[24] The Zanzibar team were unable to obtain visas to enter Sweden and were thus forced to pull out of the tournament.^[25] Quebec's place was taken by South Ossetia, while Zanzibar were replaced by County of Nice.

Matches

Group stage

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

Group A

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Arameans Suryoye	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3	6
Kurdistan Region	2	1	0	1	10	2	+8	3
Tamil Eelam	2	0	0	2	0	11	−11	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Kurdistan Region	1–2	Arameans Suryoye
Younis Shakour 38'		Musa Karli 78' Mattias Candemir 84'

1 June 2014

13:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Tamil Eelam	0–2	Arameans Suryoye
		Marco Aydin 36' Musa Karli 48'

2 June 2014

10:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Tamil Eelam	0–9	Kurdistan Region
		Aras 17' Ahmed 23', 35' Younes 28' Nechirvan Shukri 31' Ali Farhan Shakor 62', 86', 90+4'

3 June 2014

10:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Group B

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Abkhazia	2	1	1	0	3	2	+1	4
Occitania	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	4
Sápmi	2	0	0	2	1	3	−2	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Abkhazia	1–1	Occitania
Gerome Hernandez 83' (o.g.)		Brice Martinez 68'

1 June 2014

16:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Abkhazia	2–1	Sápmi
Amal Vardania 19' Vladimir Argun 72'		Jirijoonas Kanth 51'

2 June 2014

16:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Occitania	1–0	Sápmi
Guillaume Lafuente 47'

3 June 2014

16:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Group C

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Padania	2	2	0	0	23	1	+22	6
South Ossetia	2	1	0	1	20	3	+17	3
Darfur	2	0	0	2	0	39	−39	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Darfur	0–20	Padania
		Marco Garavelli 2', 13', 24' Giacomo Innocenti 4', 10', 27', 39' Andrea Rota 11', 26' Mauro Nannini 16' Luca Mosti 46' Matteo Prandelli 48', 57', 81', 87' Enoch Barwuah 50', 54' Andrea Mussi 62', 64', 69'

1 June 2014

10:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Darfur	0–19	South Ossetia
		Artur Elbaev 10', 39', 42', 62', 75', 76', 82', 88' Vladimir Salbiev 13', 40' Romeo Kobaladze 45' Rustam Khutiev 56', 59', 70', 79', 90' Taimuraz Kudziev 63' Georgi Kulov 68' Murat Tskhovrebov 90+1'

2 June 2014

13:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

South Ossetia	1–3	Padania
Artur Elbaev 46'		Giacomo Innocenti 6' Andrea Mussi 37' Enoch Barwuah 86'

3 June 2014

13:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Group D

Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
Ellan Vannin	2	2	0	0	7	4	+3	6
County of Nice	2	1	0	1	3	4	−1	3
Nagorno-Karabakh	2	0	0	2	2	4	−2	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Ellan Vannin	3–2	Nagorno-Karabakh
Ciaran McNulty 41' Antony Moore 88' Frank Jones 90'		Mihran Manasyan 27', 31'

1 June 2014

19:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Ellan Vannin	4–2	County of Nice
Calum Morrissey 16', 31', 35' Daniel Bell 87'		Frank Delerue 37' Malik Tchokounte 74'

2 June 2014

19:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Nagorno-Karabakh	0–1	County of Nice
		Olivier Sborgni 7'

3 June 2014

19:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Knockout stage

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	4 June – Östersund
	Padania	1
					6 June – Östersund
	County of Nice	2
					County of Nice	3
	4 June – Östersund
					South Ossetia	0
	Abkhazia	0 (0)
									8 June – Östersund
	South Ossetia	0 (2)
									County of Nice	0 (5)
	4 June – Östersund
									Ellan Vannin	0 (3)
	Arameans Suryoye	0 (7)
					6 June – Östersund
	Occitania	0 (6)
					Arameans Suryoye	1
	4 June – Östersund
					Ellan Vannin	4			Third place
	Ellan Vannin	1 (4)
									8 June – Östersund
	Kurdistan Region	1 (2)
									South Ossetia	1
									Arameans Suryoye	4

Quarter-finals

Padania	1–2	County of Nice
Andrea Camussi 45+1'		Loïc Malatini 8' Malik Tchokounte 85'

4 June 2014

10:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Abkhazia	0–0	South Ossetia
Penalties
Akhmat Agrba Sandrik Tsveyba Dmitri Akhba Georgij Zhanava	0–2	Alan Khadarzev David Siukaev Taimuraz Karatsev Taimuraz Kudziev

4 June 2014

13:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Arameans Suryoye	0–0	Occitania
Penalties
Lukas Can Thomas Can Mattias Candemir Rabi Mourad Andreas David Marco Aydin Jakob Sauma	7–6	Brice Martinez Ronald Rodas Vivian Dors Pierre Bru Nabil Moussi Nicolas Dubois Joel Congré

4 June 2014

16:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Ellan Vannin	1–1	Kurdistan Region
Seamus Sharkey 80'		Khaled Mushir 23'
Penalties
Ciaran McNulty Calum Morrissey Chris Bass Jr Jack McVey	4–2	Khaled Mushir Sherzad Mohammed Younis Shakour Ahmed Salar

4 June 2014

19:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Semi-finals

County of Nice	3–0	South Ossetia
Malik Tchokounte 3', 28' Kevin Puyoo 83'

6 June 2014

16:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Arameans Suryoye	1–4	Ellan Vannin
Rabi Mourad 9'		Frank Jones 23' Jack McVey 60' Chris Bass Jr 70' Ciaran McNulty 72'

6 June 2014

19:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Third-place play-off

South Ossetia	1–4	Arameans Suryoye
David Siukaev 92'		George Kacho 9', 24', 73' Volkan Percin 47'

8 June 2014

10:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Final

County of Nice	0–0	Ellan Vannin
	Report
Penalties
Gilles Noto Baptiste Delfino Loic Malitini Frank Delerue Hichem Ferreri	5–3	Ciaran McNulty Calum Morrisey Chris Bass Jack McVey

8 June 2014

13:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

ConIFA World Football Cup 2014 winners
County of Nice First title

Placement round

Placement round 1		Placement round 2			Placings
5 June – Östersund		7 June – Östersund			5th place	Padania
Tamil Eelam	2	Tamil Eelam	10		6th place	Kurdistan Region
Sápmi	4	Darfur	0		7th place	Occitania
5 June – Östersund		7 June – Östersund			8th place	Abkhazia
Darfur	0	Sápmi	1		9th place	Nagorno-Karabakh
Nagorno-Karabakh	12	Nagorno-Karabakh	5		10th place	Sápmi
5 June – Östersund		7 June – Östersund			11th place	Tamil Eelam
Padania	3 (4)	Abkhazia	0		12th place	Darfur
Abkhazia	3 (2)	Occitania	1
5 June – Östersund		7 June – Östersund
Occitania	2 (4)	Padania	1 (4)
Kurdistan Region	2 (5)	Kurdistan Region	1 (3)

Placement round 1

Tamil Eelam	2–4	Sápmi
Prashanth Ragvan 55', 77'		Steffen Dreyer 58', 66', ??' 79' (o.g.)

5 June 2014

10:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Darfur	0–12	Nagorno-Karabakh
		Gevorg Nranyan 7', 24', 45', 75' Norayr Gyozalyan 22', 39', 54', 74' Grigoryan 33', 42' Samvuel Karapetyan 69' Aram Bareghamyan 90+2'

5 June 2014

13:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Padania	3–3	Abkhazia
Luca Mosti 41' Enoch Barwuah 48' Matteo Prandelli 90+1'		Amal Vardania 60', 62' Dmitri Akhba 86'
Penalties
Andrea Rota Luca Mosti Stefano Tignonsini Mauro Nannini Andrea Mussi	4–2	Ruslan Adzhindzhal Alen Ardzheniya Astamur Tarba Aleksandr Khoklov

5 June 2014

16:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Occitania	2–2	Kurdistan Region
Vivian Dors 41', 47'		Farhan Shakor 19' Ahmed 76'
Penalties
Brice Martinez Ronald Rodas Vivian Dors Pierre Bru Nabil Moussi	4–5	Younis Shakour Nechirvan Shukri Dozhgahr Nechjrvan Khaled Mushir

5 June 2014

19:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Placement round 2

Tamil Eelam	10–0	Darfur
Gvinthan Navaneethakrishnan 2', 10' Mayooran Jeganthan 8' Prashanth Ragvan 16', 69', 69' Gajendran Balamurali 53' Prasanth Vigneswararajah 73' Christman Gunasingham 81', 89'

7 June 2014

10:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Sápmi	1–5	Nagorno-Karabakh
Arle Ivar Ring 68'		Gevorg Poghosyan 30', 83' Mihran Manasyan 32', 52' Armen Petrosyan 64'

7 June 2014

13:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Abkhazia	0–1	Occitania
		Gerome Hernandez 78'

7 June 2014

16:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Padania	1–1	Kurdistan Region
Rota 64'
Penalties
	4–3

7 June 2014

19:00

Jämtkraft Arena, Östersund

Final Positions

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Result
1	County of Nice	5	3	1	1	8	5	+3	10
2	Ellan Vannin	5	3	2	0	12	6	+6	11
3	Arameans Suryoye	5	3	1	1	9	6	+3	10
4	South Ossetia	5	1	1	3	21	10	+11	4
5	Padania	5	2	2	1	28	7	+21	8	Eliminated in the Quarterfinals
6	Kurdistan Region	5	1	3	1	14	6	+8	6
7	Occitania	5	2	3	0	5	3	+2	9
8	Abkhazia	5	1	3	1	6	6	0	6
9	Nagorno-Karabakh	4	2	0	2	19	5	+14	6	Eliminated in the First Stage
10	Sápmi	4	1	0	3	6	10	−4	3
11	Tamil Eelam	4	1	0	3	12	15	−3	3
12	Darfur	4	0	0	4	0	61	−61	0

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

See also

• Viva World Cup

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External links

• Official website