The 2017 ConIFA European Football Cup was the second edition of the ConIFA European Football Cup, an international

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tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by

ConIFA The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA. Competitions Women's football All members of CONIFA are encouraged to inv ...

. 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

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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

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

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. *County of Nice withdrew and were replaced by

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. *Occitania withdrew and were replaced by Kárpátalja.

Squad

Matches

Group stage

The results of the group stage draw:

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 *

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* 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)

References

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