The ELF Cup (Equality, Liberty, Fraternity) was an international football tournament organised by the Cyprus Turkish Football Federation (KTFF), a member of the NF-Board. It was played only once, in 2006. Among the participants were NF-Board teams and FIFA member teams from the Asian Football Confederation.

ELF Cup 2006

The 2006 ELF Cup took place in the North Cyprus between November 19 and 25. Initially announced for non-FIFA teams only, the 2006 tournament also found places for three teams from the Asian Football Confederation - Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan. However, under pressure from FIFA, Afghanistan withdrew from the tournament.

Controversy

Initially, it was announced that the North Cyprus were to hold the inaugural VIVA World Cup tournament, organised by the NF-Board as a bi-annual competition for the best non-FIFA nations. However, a dispute between the NF-Board and a new regime at the KTFF led to the tournament being taken away and granted to Occitania. The NF-Board claimed that the new government of the North Cyprus insisted on restricting which nations could and could not take part. The KTFF, however, claimed that the NF-Board made unreasonable financial demands.

In response, the KTFF announced that the ELF Cup would be held at the same time as the VIVA World Cup, and have promised to pay travelling expenses to the participants, which has attracted some NF-Board members. The KTFF hope that the tournament will bring North Cyprus further into the international arena.

Competitors

• – representing the Crimean Tatars.

• – Gagauzia, an autonomous region of Moldova.

• – an autonomous region of Denmark, and nominally under the control of the Danish Football Association and is a NF-Board member.

• – a member of the AFC and FIFA, represented here by their futsal team.

• – a member of the AFC and FIFA, represented here by their futsal team.

• – an autonomous region of China, in exile and is a NF-Board member.

• – the hosts, an internationally unrecognised state and is a NF-Board member.

• – autonomous region of Tanzania, but with membership of the CAF and of the NF-Board, represented here by their under-20 national team.

Results

The eight participants were drawn into two groups of four, with the top two from each group progressing to the knockout stage.

Group A

Group B

Semi-finals

3rd Place Playoff

Final

Golden Team

Scorers

1. 6 goals

2. Ertaç Taşkıran

3. 5 goals

4. Hamis Çakır

5. 4 goals

6. Ulan Riskulov

7. 3 goals

8. Jenish Mamatov

9. Daler Aknazarov

10. Kemal Uçaner

11. Ediz Çukurovalı

12. Muhammed Seif Muhammed

13. 2 goals

14. Kresten Kreutzmann

15. Piotr Marcov

16. Marlen Akimov

17. Mihail Sundeev

18. Derviş Kolcu

19. Sabri Selden

20. Coşkun Ulusoy

21. 1 goal

22. Irfan Ametov

23. Ablâmetov Arsen

24. Ebubekirov Fevziy

25. Halil Hayredinov

26. Emiratlı Ruslan

27. Denis Ceavdari

28. Lars Sandgreen

29. Mustafayev Arsen

30. Dilshat Kadyrov

31. Vadim Kondratkov

32. Sundeev Mihail

33. Sergey Almukhamedov

34. Firdavs Faizullaev

35. Atkun Arıkbuka

36. Yasin Kansu

37. Ekrem Keleşzade

38. Hasan Sapsızoğlu

39. Rajab Rashid Omar

40. Suleiman Kassim Suleiman

41. Own goals

42. Rizvan Ablitarov (playing against TRNC)

Match Ball

All the matches were played with Adidas Teamgeist balls.

See also

• Non-FIFA football

• VIVA World Cup

• FIFI Wild Cup

• CONIFA

• Foreign relations of Northern Cyprus

References

External links

• ELF Cup kicks off

• News about the Tibetan team