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tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA with an affiliation to Europe, organised by CONIFA. It was hosted by Artsakh. The goal of the tournament was scored by Sápmi player Kristoffer Edvardsen.

Tournament

On 19 August 2018, CONIFA announced that Artsakh would host the 2019 edition of the tournament. The Artsakh postal authorities issued on 4 June 2019, a commemorative stamp for this occasion, which depicts as well the flags of participant teams in the tournament.

Venues

The tournament was held in 4 cities:

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(the capital),

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, Martakert and Martuni.

Participants

A total of twelve teams were scheduled to participate, with their seedings below. The seeded teams are Padania (winners of the

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) and Artsakh, as the hosts of the 2019 European Football Cup.

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and Székely Land were also drawn as top seeds in Pot 1, based on their CONIFA rankings. Sardinia entered in 2018 in CONIFA and it was drawn in one of the groups. However, in May 2019, it withdrew from the competition. The reserve team, in case one of the below teams withdraws, was granted to Kernow, but after County of Nice, Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR all withdrew, CONIFA opted to proceed with just 8 teams in 2 groups.Match schedule: CONIFA Sportsbet.io European Football Cup 2019
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Squads

Matches

Group stage

Group A

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Group B

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Knockout stage

Semi-finals

Third-place play-off

Final

Placement round

Placement round 1

Placement round 2

Final positions

Player of the tournament: Batradz Gurtsiev Young player of the tournament: Kristoffer Edvardsen

Top scorers

;5 goals * Batradz Gurtsiev ;4 goals * Federico Corno * Arsen Sargsyan ;3 goals * Shabat Logua * Markovanbasten Çema ;2 goals * Ibragim Bazayev * Dmitri Malyaka * Norik Mkrtchyan * Edmond Hoxha * Vilson Mziu * Niccolò Colombo * Riccardo Ravasi * Benjamin Zakrisson * Samuli Laitila * Barna Vékás * Arman Aslanyan ;1 goal * Georgiy Dgebuadze *

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Alan Khugayev Alan Anatolyevich Khugaev (russian: Алан Анатольевич Хугаев, os, Хуыгаты Анатолийы фырт Алан);born 27 April 1989 in Vladikavkaz) is a Russian wrestler of Ossetian origin. He won the gold medal at ...

* Narek Danielyan * Samet Gjoka * Fravjo Prendi * Andrea Rota * Stefano Tignonsini * Kristoffer Edvardsen * Botond Kovács * Rajmond Balint * Kovács Ákos * Zaven Badoyan * Vardan Bakalyan * David Hovsepyan * Davit Minasyan *

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Player of the tournament: Batradz Gurtsiev Young player of the tournament: Kristoffer Edvardsen

References

{{reflist CONIFA European Football Cup 2010s in the Republic of Artsakh CONIFA European Football Cup CONIFA European Football Cup Sport in the Republic of Artsakh 2019 in Russian sport