en 2019 CONIFA European Football Cup

2019 CONIFA European Football Cup
Tournament details
Host country	Artsakh (official); Azerbaijan (location)
Dates	1–9 June 2019
Teams	8
Venue(s)	4 (in 4 host cities)
Final positions
Champions	South Ossetia
Runners-up	Western Armenia
Third place	Abkhazia
Fourth place	Chameria
Tournament statistics
Matches played	20
Goals scored	59 (2.95 per match)
Top scorer(s)	Batradz Gurtsiev (5 goals)
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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.^[1]

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.^[1]

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
Stepanakert Martakert Martuni Askeran

Participants

A total of twelve teams were scheduled to participate, with their seedings below.^[2] 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,^[3] but after County of Nice, Donetsk PR and Luhansk PR all withdrew, CONIFA opted to proceed with just 8 teams in 2 groups.^[4]

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

Squads

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

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

2 June 2019

16:00

Abkhazia	3–1	Chameria
Maskayev 48' Logua 49', 74'	^{[citation needed]}	Prendi 30'

Askeran City Stadium, Askeran

Attendance: 500

Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

2 June 2019