ELF Cup

The ELF Cup (short for Egalite, Liberté, Fraternité ) is a from North Cyprus Football Association ( KTFF ) organized football championship. At her involves teams that are not organized in the FIFA and therefore can not participate in the FIFA World Cup.

Formation

The NF - Board, where most teams are organized wanted his Viva World Cup stop in Northern Cyprus in 2006, originally. Due to political pressure and inconsistencies with the KTFF the competition, however, was moved to the southern French Occitania.

The KTFF started as reactions his own " outsider 's World Cup " in Northern Cyprus. Some of the teams that were traded as a participant of the Viva World Cup in Northern Cyprus, then declared their participation in the ELF Cup in 2006, while other teams in the NF- Board went to the simultaneous Viva World Cup 2006 after Occitania.

ELF Cup 2006

The ELF Cup 2006 was held in the internationally unrecognized northern part of Cyprus between the 19th and 25th November 2006. The preliminary round was divided into two groups with a total of eight teams - in the three stages of Güzelyurt, Girne and Gazimağusa - played out. The main round matches were played until the final in Nicosia.

Interestingly, the last reported participants from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan official members of AFC and FIFA, which contradicts the very idea of the ELF Cup.

Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Semifinal

3rd Place Match

Final

Previous winners

• 2006 Northern Cyprus Turk. Rep. of Northern Cyprus