2018 CONIFA World Football Cup
The 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup was the third edition of the CONIFA World Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by CONIFA. The tournament was hosted by Barawa Football Association, with all games held in and around London.[1] The tournament was sponsored by Irish bookmaker Paddy Power. After being a late entry to the tournament, Kárpátalja won their first title on 9 June 2018, defeating Northern Cyprus 3–2 on penalties in the final. (0-0 after 90 minutes)
Tournament details | |
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Host country | Barawa (official) England (location) |
Dates | 31 May – 9 June |
Teams | 16 |
Venue(s) | 10 (in 3 host cities) |
Final positions | |
Champions | Kárpátalja (1st title) |
Runners-up | Northern Cyprus |
Third place | Padania |
Fourth place | Székely Land |
Tournament statistics | |
Matches played | 41 |
Goals scored | 158 (3.85 per match) |
Top scorer(s) | Kamaljit Singh (6 goals) |
Host selection
In June 2017, at the CONIFA meeting held during the 2017 CONIFA European Football Cup, it was announced that the Barawa Football Association had been selected to act as the host for the 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup. However, under CONIFA's criteria, the "host" is the CONIFA member that heads the organising committee for the tournament, which does not necessarily mean that it needs to be played in the host's territory.[2] Barawa is located in Somalia, but the Barawa FA represents members of the Somali diaspora in England.[3]
Venues
The first two CONIFA World Football Cup tournaments both featured no more than two venues each; the 2014 tournament featured all games played at the same stadium, while the 2016 edition had a stadium in each of two cities. The expansion from twelve to sixteen participants in 2018 saw a significant expansion in the number of venues used, with a total of ten selected in four separate towns and cities - of these, seven were located in Greater London itself, two were in the towns of Slough and Bracknell in Berkshire, and one in the borough of Thurrock in Essex.
Greater London | |||
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Sutton | Bromley | Enfield | Haringey |
Gander Green Lane | Hayes Lane | Queen Elizabeth II Stadium | Coles Park |
Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 2,500 | Capacity: 2,500 |
Greater London | Greater London | ||
Carshalton | Rotherhithe | ||
Colston Avenue | St Paul's Sports Ground | ||
Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 1,000 | ||
Greater London | Essex | ||
Bedfont | Aveley | ||
Bedfont Recreation Ground | Parkside | ||
Capacity: 3,000 | Capacity: 3,500 | ||
Berkshire | |||
Bracknell | Slough | ||
Larges Lane | Arbour Park | ||
Capacity: 2,500 | Capacity: 2,000 | ||
Qualification
The process of qualification for the World Football Cup was originally laid out in a set of criteria published by CONIFA at its 2017 annual general meeting, which goes into the various ways by which teams can qualify.[4] This was subsequently revised by CONIFA in June 2017.[5]
- Host - Providing at least 10 places are available for other qualifiers, then all hosts will qualify automatically. If there are less than 10 other places available, then the number of automatic host places is calculated by the total number of places in the tournament minus 10.
- World Football Cup Holder - The current holder of the World Football Cup qualifies automatically.
- Wild Card - CONIFA's Executive Committee issues a Wild Card place to a team that has not yet qualified for the WFC no later than 9 months prior to the start of the tournament. The committee also has the right to issue a second Wild Card if approved by CONIFA's Annual General Meeting.
- Qualification tournament - Any member of CONIFA has the right to request that a tournament it hosts be sanctioned as a qualifier, providing it is held between 1 January of the year of the previous WFC, and 31 December of the year before the next WFC, and consists of at least four CONIFA members. The request to have the tournament sanctioned as a qualifier must be submitted at least two months prior to the start, and must be approved by CONIFA's Executive Committee.
- Continental tournament - If a CONIFA continental championship is held after the previous WFC, then a number of its participants qualify for the WFC; the total qualifiers is worked out by the number of participants in the tournament divided by 4.
- Qualification points - Remaining places are distributed according to the final positions in the various CONIFA continental rankings according to their accumulated ranking points. If two or more teams have the same number of qualification points, qualification will be determined by the CONIFA World Rankings.
Qualification points | |
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Opposition Factor (OF) | Result Factor (RF) |
CONIFA Member = 3 | Win = 3 |
Other international opposition = 2 | Draw = 2 |
Any other opposition = 1 | Defeat = 1 |
Points for a single match = OF × RF | |
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By the criteria set out, the qualification process began in January 2016, when Western Armenia played its first official game against the reserve team of the French club Olympique de Marseille.[6] The first team to qualify automatically was Tamil Eelam, by winning the single match CONIFA Challenger Cup against the Romani people in March 2016. Following this, two further, multi-team competitions were awarded qualification status by CONIFA, the Hungary Heritage Cup, played between four CONIFA members representing the Hungarian diaspora, and the World Unity Cup, which was a tournament containing teams representing a number of displaced peoples.[7] The winners of both of these tournaments were guaranteed qualification for the World Football Cup.
Qualified teams
Team | Region | Method of qualification |
Date of qualification |
Finals appearance |
Previous appearance |
Previous best performance |
Notes |
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Tamil Eelam | Asia | ConIFA Challenger Cup winners | 13 March 2016 | 2nd | 2014 | Placement round (2014) | |
Abkhazia | Europe | ConIFA World Football Cup winners | 6 June 2016 | 3rd | 2016 | Winners (2016) | |
Felvidék | Europe | Hungary Heritage Cup winners | 3 August 2016 | 1st | N/A | N/A | Subsequently withdrew |
Western Armenia | Asia | Wild card | 14 January 2017 | 2nd | 2016 | Quarter-final (2016) | |
Barawa | Africa | Host | 8 June 2017 | 1st | N/A | N/A | |
Tibet | Asia | Wild card | 8 June 2017 | 1st | N/A | N/A | |
Kiribati | Oceania | Regional qualification | 8 June 2017 | 1st | N/A | N/A | Subsequently withdrew |
Cascadia | North America | Regional qualification | 8 June 2017 | 1st | N/A | N/A | |
Padania | Europe | ConIFA European Football Cup winners | 10 June 2017 | 3rd | 2016 | 4th place (2016) | |
Northern Cyprus | Europe | ConIFA European Football Cup runners-up | 10 June 2017 | 2nd | 2016 | 3rd place (2016) | |
Panjab | Asia | Regional qualification | 2 September 2017 | 2nd | 2016 | 2nd place (2016) | |
United Koreans in Japan | Asia | Regional qualification | 2 September 2017 | 2nd | 2016 | Quarter-final (2016) | |
Matabeleland | Africa | Regional qualification | 2 September 2017 | 1st | N/A | N/A | |
Kabylia | Africa | Regional qualification | 2 September 2017 | 1st | N/A | N/A | |
Ellan Vannin | Europe | Regional qualification | 2 September 2017 | 2nd | 2014 | 2nd place (2014) | |
Székely Land | Europe | Regional qualification | 2 September 2017 | 2nd | 2016 | Placement round (2016) | |
Tuvalu | Oceania | Replacement | 7 March 2018 | 1st | N/A | N/A | Replaced Kiribati |
Kárpátalja | Europe | Replacement | 4 May 2018 | 1st | N/A | N/A | Replaced Felvidék |
Draw
In December 2017, the sixteen participating teams were seeded into four pots of four for the group stage draw, based on the ConIFA rankings. The draw for the group stage was held on 6 January 2018 in Northern Cyprus.[8][9]
Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 | Pot 4 |
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Withdrawals
In March 2018, ConIFA announced that, owing to financial difficulties, the Kiribati team had been forced to withdraw from the tournament, with their place taken by Tuvalu.[10] In May 2018, it was announced that the Felvidék team had withdrawn, to be replaced by Kárpátalja.[11]
Squads
Referees
ConIFA announced a total of 28 referees for the tournament, led by former Premier League official Mark Clattenburg.[12] During the tournament, referees used a third card in addition to the red and yellow; the green card, introduced as a concept by the tournament sponsor Paddy Power, was issued to players either for dissent or diving; a player given a green card was required to be substituted immediately.[12]
Referees | |
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Referee | Country |
Mark Clattenburg | England |
Oliver Potter | |
Karl Parker | |
Clément Auclair | France |
Raymond Mashamba | Zimbabwe |
Dmitrii Zhukov | Ukraine |
Vitalii Mazin | |
Valerii Kravchenko | |
Aleksandr Demenko | |
Givi Todua | Russia |
Kristian Michel | Slovakia |
Vinze Otten | Netherlands |
Alan Martinez | United States |
David Murphy | Scotland |
James Turpin | Isle of Man |
Denis Pérez González | Spain |
Andrew Mario Parody | Gibraltar |
Utku Hamamcioglu | Turkey |
Fehim Dayı | Northern Cyprus |
Zekai Tore | |
Isfendiyar Açiksoz | |
Esposito Pasquale | Italy |
Mario Guastafierro | |
Massimo Amitrano | |
Mario Sasso | |
Wilhelm Gürtler | Germany |
René Jacobi | |
Martin Heiland | |
Martin Rauh | |
Leon Dastych | |
Ivan Mrkalj | |
Matches
Group stage
Key to colours in group tables | |
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Team advanced to the quarter-finals | |
Team in the placement rounds |
Group A
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Barawa | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 2 | +5 | 6 |
Cascadia | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | +4 | 6 |
Ellan Vannin | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 6 |
Tamil Eelam | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 12 | −12 | 0 |
Ellan Vannin | 4–1 | Cascadia |
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Whitley 15' Jones 41' Caine 62' McVey 70' |
Report | Doughty 18' |
Barawa | 4–0 | Tamil Eelam |
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Sambou 17' Lucien 30' (pen.), 80' (pen.) Crichlow 43' |
Report |
Ellan Vannin | 2–0 | Tamil Eelam |
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Whitley 47' Caine 57' |
Report |
Barawa | 2–0 | Ellan Vannin |
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Bettamer 40' Ismail 56' |
Report |
Group B
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Kárpátalja | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | +6 | 7 |
Northern Cyprus | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 5 |
Abkhazia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | +1 | 4 |
Tibet | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 0 |
Abkhazia | 0–2 | Kárpátalja |
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Report | Gajdos 11' I. Sándor 90+8' |
Northern Cyprus | 3–1 | Tibet |
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Turan 2', 67' Gök 73' |
Report | Topgyal 38' |
Abkhazia | 2–2 | Northern Cyprus |
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Maskayev 21' Argun 90' (pen.) |
Report | Kaya 27' Oshan 77' |
Group C
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Padania | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 2 | +15 | 9 |
Székely Land | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 3 | +7 | 6 |
Matabeleland | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 12 | −8 | 3 |
Tuvalu | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 15 | −14 | 0 |
Székely Land | 4–0 | Tuvalu |
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Bajkó 23', 63', 68' Magyari 75' |
Report |
Padania | 6–1 | Matabeleland |
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Innocenti 10', 45' Piantoni 39', 42' Rosset 60' Rota 61' |
Report | Ndlela 78' |
Székely Land | 5–0 | Matabeleland |
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Fülöp 31' (pen.) Györgyi 40' Magyari 42', 54' Hodgyai 90+1' |
Report |
Padania | 8–0 | Tuvalu |
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Corno 8', 12', 38' Ravasi 17' Valente 32', 44', 89' Rosset 71' |
Report |
Padania | 3–1 | Székely Land |
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Rolandone 19' Innocenti 27' Pllumbaj 45' |
Report | Szőcs 90' |
Tuvalu | 1–3 | Matabeleland |
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Timuani 27' | Report | S. Ndlovu 25', 38' Mlalazi 90+1' (pen.) |
Group D
Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
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Western Armenia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | +5 | 7 |
Panjab | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 2 | +7 | 4 |
United Koreans in Japan | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Kabylia | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 12 | −12 | 1 |
United Koreans in Japan | 0–0 | Western Armenia |
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Report |
Panjab | 8–0 | Kabylia |
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Sandhu 24', 53' Purewal 45', 62' G. Singh 51' (pen.), 90+3' K. Singh 75', 82' |
Report |
United Koreans in Japan | 0–0 | Kabylia |
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Report |
Panjab | 0–1 | Western Armenia |
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Report | Militosyan 14' |
Panjab | 1–1 | United Koreans in Japan |
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Purewal 77' (pen.) | Report | Mun 90+4' |
Western Armenia | 4–0 | Kabylia |
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Mosoyan 23' Valenza-Berberian 61', 87' Militosyan 89' |
Report |
Knockout stage
Quarter-finals | Semi-finals | Final | ||||||||
5 June – Sutton | ||||||||||
Barawa | 0 | |||||||||
7 June – Carshalton | ||||||||||
Northern Cyprus | 8 | |||||||||
Northern Cyprus | 3 | |||||||||
5 June – Bracknell | ||||||||||
Padania | 2 | |||||||||
Padania | 2 | |||||||||
9 June – Enfield | ||||||||||
Panjab | 0 | |||||||||
Northern Cyprus | 0 (2) | |||||||||
5 June – Sutton | ||||||||||
Kárpátalja | 0 (3) | |||||||||
Kárpátalja | 3 | |||||||||
7 June – Carshalton | ||||||||||
Cascadia | 1 | |||||||||
Kárpátalja | 4 | |||||||||
5 June – Bromley | ||||||||||
Székely Land | 2 | Third place | ||||||||
Western Armenia | 0 | |||||||||
9 June – Enfield | ||||||||||
Székely Land | 4 | |||||||||
Padania | 0 (5) | |||||||||
Székely Land | 0 (4) | |||||||||
Quarter-Finals
Barawa | 0–8 | Northern Cyprus |
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Report | Gök 15', 80' Önet 51' Turan 54', 69' Ali 58' (o.g.) Mehmet 84' Osman 88' |
Kárpátalja | 3–1 | Cascadia |
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Gyürki 49' Takács 59' Gadjos 87' (pen.) |
Report | Haddadi 80' |
Western Armenia | 0–4 | Székely Land |
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Report | Tankó 36' Csizmadia 61' L. Fülöp 65' Bajkó 86' |
Semi-Finals
Northern Cyprus | 3–2 | Padania |
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Mehmet 36', 84' Turan 80' |
Report | Ravasi 30' Pavan 47' |
Kárpátalja | 4–2 | Székely Land |
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Toma 36', 57' Gyürki 75' (pen.) Peres 90+1' |
Report | Csizmadia 77' Bajkó 79' |
Third-Place Play-Off
Padania | 0–0 | Székely Land |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
5–4 |
Final
Northern Cyprus | 0–0 | Kárpátalja |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
Mehmet Kurt Oshan Ersalan Turan |
2–3 | Gyürki Toma Baksa I. Sándor Svedjuk |
Northern Cyprus
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Kárpátalja
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ConIFA World Football Cup 2018 Winners |
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Kárpátalja First title |
Placement Round 1
Ellan Vannin [note 1] | 0–3 Awarded | Tibet |
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Report |
Matabeleland | 0–0 | Kabylia |
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Report | ||
Penalties | ||
P. Ndlovu Mlalazi G. Ndlovu George Nkomo Sthamburi |
3–4 | Belalsa Hadid Mezaib |
Abkhazia | 6–0 | Tamil Eelam |
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Akhvlediani 40', 71' Logua 63' Shoniya 74', 88' Tarba 83' |
Report |
United Koreans in Japan | 5–0 | Tuvalu |
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Taniyama 18' Lee 20', 58' Shin 23' Mun 83' |
Report |
Placement Round 2
Ellan Vannin [note 2] | 0–3 Awarded | Matabeleland |
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Report |
Tamil Eelam | 4–3 | Tuvalu |
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Ragavan 7', 86', 90+1' Perananthan 90+4' |
Report | Petoa 3', 73' Vailine 55' |
Tibet | 1–8 | Kabylia |
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Topgyal 43' (pen.) | Report | Baudia 25', 74', 77', 87' Hadid 45' Mezaib 49', 51' Bouabbas 81' |
Abkhazia | 2–0 | United Koreans in Japan |
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Akhvlediani 38' Kogoniya 78' |
Report |
Cascadia | 4–0 | Western Armenia |
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Ferguson 24', 62' Oldham 54' Farkas 79' |
Report |
Placement Round 3
Ellan Vannin [note 2] | 0–3 Awarded | Tuvalu |
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Report |
Matabeleland | 1–0 | Tamil Eelam |
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Ndlela 81' | Report |
Tibet | 1–1 | United Koreans in Japan |
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Yougyal 20' | Report | Gelek 84' (o.g.) |
Penalties | ||
1–4 |
Barawa | 0–7 | Western Armenia |
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Report | ?' Norik Hovsepyan ?' David Hovsepyan ?' Artur Yedigaryan ?' Fabrice Guzel ?' Zaven Varjabetyan ?' Vahagn Militosyan ?' Arman Mosoyan |
Statistics
Goalscorers
- 6 goals
- Kamaljit Singh
- 5 goals
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- 3 goals
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- Own goals
- Ayuub Ali (for Northern Cyprus)
- Tenzin Gelek (for United Koreans in Japan)
Final positions
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
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1 | Kárpátalja | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | +10 |
2 | Northern Cyprus | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 6 | +11 |
3 | Padania | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 5 | +16 |
4 | Székely Land | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 7 | +9 |
5 | Panjab | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 7 | +10 |
6 | Cascadia | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 17 | 11 | +6 |
7 | Western Armenia | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 8 | +4 |
8 | Barawa | 6 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 7 | 22 | −15 |
9 | Abkhazia | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 15 | 4 | +11 |
10 | Kabylia | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 15 | −7 |
11 | United Koreans in Japan | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 4 | +3 |
12 | Tibet | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 20 | −16 |
13 | Matabeleland | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 12 | −7 |
14 | Tamil Eelam | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 22 | −18 |
15 | Tuvalu | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 24 | −20 |
16 | Ellan Vannin[lower-alpha 1] | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 |
Notes:
- Ellan Vannin withdrew from the competition after the group stage.
Player awards
Three individual awards were handed out by ConIFA at the conclusion of the tournament:[13]
- Paddy Power Player of the Tournament: Béla Fejér
- ConIFA Golden Boot: Kamaljit Singh
- Global FCE Young Player of the Tournament: Sami Boudia
As winner of Young Player of the Tournament, Sami Boudia was offered a one-month residency at one of the Global Football Centre Of Excellence's academies.
Marketing
Tournament programme
A programme for the entire tournament was produced, with the bulk of the content produced by football writer Mat Guy and blogger Pat McGuinness, and produced by Programme Master.[14]
Official anthem
The official anthem of the tournament is "Bring The House Down" by English duo Right Said Fred, which was released on 29 May 2018.[15]
Controversies
Ellan Vannin withdrawal
Following the completion of the group stage, Ellan Vannin entered a protest regarding the fact that Barawa had been able to bring in a replacement player to their squad after the tournament had started, in apparent contravention of the tournament's rules. The addition of the player, Mohamed Bettamer, a former Libyan youth international, was permitted by ConIFA, who stated that this was a rule change, but who did not inform the other 15 teams in the competition, who had submitted their own squad lists according to the published pre-tournament rule book.[16] Ellan Vannin launched an appeal against the Barawa team's fielding of an apparently ineligible player, which at an initial meeting of the tournament committee was upheld, before subsequently being overturned.[17] As a result, Ellan Vannin withdrew from the remainder of the tournament, and Tibet, their opponents in the First Placement Round, were awarded a 3–0 victory.[18] Their place in the remaining fixtures were taken by Chagos Islands. [19] A meeting of ConIFA's Executive Committee made the decision to provisionally expel the Manx Independent Football Alliance from the organization on 7 June, subject to ratification at the Annual General Meeting in January 2019.[20] They were reinstated in January.
Replacement matches
Chagos Islands | 0–1 | Matabeleland |
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Report | Sthamburi 60' |
Broadcasting rights
CONIFA provided live streaming through football streaming service Mycujoo and edited highlights provided by FC Video. Select games were also live streamed on the Paddy Power Facebook page.
In Northern Cyprus the games were broadcast by EURO GENÇ TV.
Notes
- Ellan Vannin withdrew from the tournament on 5 June. Tibet instead played a "London Turkish Select" team when this fixture was due to be played.
- Chagos Islands agreed to fulfil Ellan Vannin's remaining fixtures.
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