2018 CONIFA World Football Cup qualification

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2018 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification
Tournament details
Dates13 March 2016 – 28 August 2016
Teams8 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played7
Goals scored30 (4.29 per match)
Top scorer(s)Tamil Eelam Panushanth Kulenthiran
(4 goals)
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The 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification is a process to decide a number of the teams that will play in the 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup. This is the second tournament to feature a qualification process, following on from the 2016 qualification. The first qualification match played was on 13 March 2016 between the Tamil Eelam team and the team representing the Romani people, with the first goal scored by Tamil Eelam's Panushanth Kulenthiran.

Background

The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA) was founded in June 2013, as an organisation to represent football associations that are not eligible or choose not to join FIFA.[1] One year later, it held its first official tournament, the 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup, in Sweden, to which the twelve participating teams were invited. The success of this tournament led to the decision to make it a biannual competition, with continental tournaments taking place in between, the first of which was the 2015 ConIFA European Football Cup.

The first qualifying process was undertaken for the 2016 ConIFA World Football Cup, which saw a series of friendly matches and tournaments, together with the 2015 ConIFA European Football Cup, designated as qualifiers for the 2016 WFC.[2][3][4] However, this decision was taken at a late stage prior to the start of the European Football Cup tournament, only a year prior to the planned start of the 2016 WFC in Abkhazia. As a consequence, for its 2018 WFC tournament, ConIFA began designating planned friendly matches as qualifiers from the beginning of 2016, allowing a greater time for those teams achieving qualification to plan for the tournament. The first of these was the ConIFA Challenger Cup, held in Remscheid on 12 and 13 March 2016.[5]

Qualified teams

Team Method of
qualification 		Date of
qualification 		Finals
appearance 		Previous
appearance 		Previous best
performance 		Notes
 Tamil Eelam ConIFA Challenger Cup winners 13 March 2016 2nd 2014 11th place (2014)
Felvidék Hungary Heritage Cup winners 3 August 2016 1st N/A N/A

Qualification

ConIFA Challenger Cup

The ConIFA Challenger Cup was a two team competition held over two days. The two participants, Tamil Eelam and Romani people, each played a 45-minute match against a local select side from the town of Remscheid, where the tournament was being held, on the first day, before playing off against each other on the second.[6]

13 March 2016 (2016-03-13) Final Tamil Eelam  4–1  Romani people Stadion Reinshagen, Remscheid, Germany
19:45 CET Kulenthiran 17', 90'
Sivanesamurthy 23'
Navaneethakrishnan 78'		 Report 82' Eyob

Hungary Heritage Cup

The Hungary Heritage Cup was a four-team competition held at the beginning of August 2016 in Szarvas, celebrating the heritage of various members of the Hungarian diaspora. The four teams featured two current members of ConIFA, together with two other teams, with the winner qualifying for the World Football Cup.

1 August 2016 (2016-08-01) Semi-final Felvidék 1–1
(5–4 p)		 Kárpátalja Erzsébet-ligeti Sporttelep, Szarvas, Hungary
17:45 CEST Renczes 30' Report 42'
1 August 2016 (2016-08-01) Semi-final Délvidék 3–1 Székely Land Erzsébet-ligeti Sporttelep, Szarvas, Hungary
15:00 CEST Mindlecz 16'
Pozsár 63'
Könyves 77'		 Report 78' Bajkó
3 August 2016 (2016-08-03) Final Délvidék 1–2 Felvidék Erzsébet-ligeti Sporttelep, Szarvas, Hungary
16:45 CEST Nagy Report Érsek
Magyar

World Unity Cup

The World Unity Cup was planned as a four-team tournament held at the end of August 2016 in Sutton. The competition was organised jointly by three ConIFA members representing displaced peoples, with the winner qualifying for the World Football Cup.[7]

Subsequent to the announcement, both Darfur and Ellan Vannin withdrew, and the tournament was reorganized as a three-team event, with the Barawa team replacing them.[8]

25 August 2016 (2016-08-25) Group stage Barawa 0–5  Tamil Eelam Borough Sports Ground, Sutton, England
18:00 BST 28' Kasthuran
30' Jan
52' Navaneethakrishnan
75' 84' Kulenthiran
26 August 2016 (2016-08-26) Group stage Barawa 2–3  Chagos Islands Borough Sports Ground, Sutton, England
18:15 BST Sufi Bhujan
Robertson
Sooprayen
27 August 2016 (2016-08-27) Group stage Chagos Islands  P–P  Tamil Eelam Borough Sports Ground, Sutton, England
19:30 BST
28 August 2016 (2016-08-28) Final Chagos Islands  1–5  Tamil Eelam Borough Sports Ground, Sutton, England
18:45 BST Gaspard 48' 4' (pen) Navaneethakrishnan
8', 11' Sivanesamurthy
68' Kulenthiran
70' (pen) Chandran

Top goalscorers

4 goals
3 goals
2 goals
1 goal

References

  1. ^ "About Us". ConIFA. Confederation of independent Football Associations. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  2. ^ "European Football Cup 2015". ConIFA. Confederation of independent Football Associations. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  3. ^ "Ellan Vannin to host tournament at end of month". Yorkshire Evening Post. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  4. ^ "Benedikt Fontana Cup". ConIFA. Confederation of Independent Football Associations. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  5. ^ "ConIFA Challenger Cup 2016". Facebook. 3 March 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  6. ^ "Remscheid Challenger Cup Day 1:". Facebook. ConIFA. 12 March 2016. Retrieved 4 April 2016.
  7. ^ "World Unity Cup". Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  8. ^ "World Unity Cup media pack" (PDF). World Unity Cup. iACT. Retrieved 24 August 2016.
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