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2006 FIFI Wild Cup
Tournament details
Host countryFile:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg Republic of St. Pauli (official)
Germany Germany (location)
Dates29 May–3 June
Teams6
Venue(s)1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions Northern Cyprus (1st title)
Runners-up Zanzibar
Third place Gibraltar
Fourth placeFile:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg Republic of St. Pauli
Tournament statistics
Matches played10
Goals scored33 (3.3 per match)

The FIFI Wild Cup was an alternative FIFA World Cup, held from 29 May to 3 June 2006 in Germany, prior to the official FIFA World Cup which started one week later. It was run by the Federation of International Football Independents (FIFI).

FIFI was a body composed of countries not recognized by FIFA and those whose logistics or political disputes prevented them from playing representative football.[1] The Millerntor-Stadion in Hamburg hosted all the tournament matches.[2] The tournament was sponsored by a German online gambling consortium called myBet.

According to organizer Jorg Pommeranz, FIFI had to overcome various obstacles, such as China and FIFA applying pressure to exclude Tibet, and difficulties for players representing Northern Cyprus obtaining visas to enter Germany.[3]

The tournament winners were the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Spectator attendance was reported as “relatively weak”, with an average of 400 fans per match. Consequently, a second edition of the tournament was deemed to be unlikely.[4]

Participants

Group stage

Group A

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
File:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg Republic of St. Pauli 4 2 1 1 0 8 1 +7
 Gibraltar 4 2 1 1 0 6 1 +5
 Tibet 0 2 0 0 2 0 12 −12
Republic of St. Pauli File:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg1–1 Gibraltar
Hakan Demirci ?' Lee Casciaro ?'
Attendance: ~400
Republic of St. Pauli File:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg7–0 Tibet
Abdul Yilmaz ?', ?', ?', ?'
Hakan Demirci ?', ?'
Dennis Daube ?'
Attendance: ~400
Tibet 0–5 Gibraltar
Attendance: ~400

Group B

Team Pts Pld W D L GF GA GD
 Northern Cyprus 6 2 2 0 0 4 1 +3
 Zanzibar 3 2 1 0 1 5 5 0
 Greenland 0 2 0 0 2 2 5 −3
Northern Cyprus 1–0 Greenland
Ali Oraloglu 55'
Attendance: ~400
Referee: Tobias Mayer, Germany
Northern Cyprus 3–1 Zanzibar
Agrey Morris 12' (o.g.)
Derviş Kolcu 20' (pen.)
Çagan Cerkez 60'		 Salum Ussi 43'
Attendance: ~400
Referee: Peter Postel, Germany
Greenland 2–4 Zanzibar
Kaassannguaq Zeeb ?'
Anders Cortsen ?'		 Alek Mohammed ?', ?'
Abdallah Juma ?', ?'
Attendance: ~400

Knockout stage

 
Semi-finalsFinal
 
      
 
 
 
 
 Northern Cyprus2
 
 
 
 Gibraltar 0
 
 Northern Cyprus0 (4)
 
 
 
 Zanzibar0 (1)
 
File:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg Republic of St. Pauli1
 
 
 Zanzibar2
 
Third place
 
 
 
 
 
 Gibraltar2
 
 
File:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg Republic of St. Pauli1

Semi-finals

Northern Cyprus 2–0 Gibraltar
Ali Oraloglu 39'
Dylan 90' (o.g.)
Attendance: ~400
Referee: Markus Dahmas, Germany
Republic of St. Pauli File:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg1–2 Zanzibar
Attendance: ~400

Third-place match

Republic of St. Pauli File:FC St Pauli skull and crossbones.svg1–2 Gibraltar
Attendance: ~400

Final

Northern Cyprus 0–0 Zanzibar
Penalties
4–1
Attendance: ~400
Referee: Moritz Hermann, Germany

See also

References

  1. ^ "Also-rans find World of own". New York Daily News. 4 June 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  2. ^ "Willkommen beim FIFI Wild Cup 2006". wild-cup.de. 15 June 2006. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  3. ^ "Filip Bondy: Also-rans find World of own". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 21 June 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2006.
  4. ^ "Nordzypern feiert ausgelassen Triumph beim "Fifi Wild Cup"" (in German). welt.de. 6 June 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
  5. ^ "Gibraltar given full Uefa membership at London Congress". www.bbc.co.uk. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Fifa: Kosovo and Gibraltar become members of world governing body". www.bbc.co.uk. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
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