# 2019 CONIFA European Football Cup

The 2019 Sportsbet.io CONIFA European Football Cup was the third edition of the CONIFA European Football Cup, an international football 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: Stepanakert (the capital), Askeran, Martakert and Martuni.
Artsakh
| Stepanakert | Martakert | Martuni | Askeran |
| Stepanakert Republican Stadium (artificial turf) | Vigen Shirinyan Stadium (natural grass) | Avakyan Arena (artificial turf) | Askeran City Stadium (natural grass) |
| 39°49′16″N 46°45′12″E﻿ / ﻿39.8210541°N 46.7532527°E﻿ / 39.8210541; 46.7532527﻿ (Stepanakert Republican Stadium) | 40°13′00″N 46°49′16″E﻿ / ﻿40.2166109°N 46.8210697°E﻿ / 40.2166109; 46.8210697﻿ (Vigen Shirinyan Stadium) | 39°47′42″N 47°07′07″E﻿ / ﻿39.7949688°N 47.1187198°E﻿ / 39.7949688; 47.1187198﻿ (Avakyan Arena) | 39°56′17″N 46°50′20″E﻿ / ﻿39.9381267°N 46.8389386°E﻿ / 39.9381267; 46.8389386﻿ (Askeran City Stadium) |
| Capacity: 12,000 | Capacity: 1,200 | Capacity: 1,080 | Capacity: 500 |
| StepanakertMartakertMartuniAskeran ||||

## Participants

A total of twelve teams were scheduled to participate, with their seedings below. The seeded teams are Padania (winners of the 2017 CONIFA European Football Cup) and Artsakh, as the hosts of the 2019 European Football Cup. Abkhazia 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.
| Pot 1 | Pot 2 | Pot 3 |
| Artsakh  Abkhazia  Padania  Székely Land | County of Nice  Donetsk PR  Sápmi  Western Armenia | Chameria  Luhansk PR  Sardinia  South Ossetia |

## Matches
### Group stage

Key to colours in group tables :
* Teams that advanced to the semi-finals

#### Group A

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| Abkhazia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 7 |
| Chameria | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 6 |
| Artsakh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 7 | −2 | 4 |
| Sápmi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 8 | −6 | 0 |

#### Group B

| Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| South Ossetia | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 |
| Western Armenia | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 4 |
| Padania | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 4 |
| Székely Land | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | −9 | 1 |

### Placement round
#### Placement round 1
#### Placement round 2
## Final positions

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 1 | South Ossetia | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 4 | +3 | 11 |
| 2 | Western Armenia | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 5 | +3 | 5 |
| 3 | Abkhazia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 3 | +3 | 9 |
| 4 | Chameria | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 4 | +5 | 8 |
| 5 | Artsakh | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 8 | +1 | 10 |
| 6 | Padania | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 5 | +5 | 7 |
| 7 | Sápmi | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 14 | −9 | 3 |
| 8 | Székely Land | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 16 | −11 | 1 |
Player of the tournament: Batradz Gurtsiev Young player of the tournament: Kristoffer Edvardsen

## Top scorers
### 5 goals

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