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2016 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification
Tournament details
Dates30 May 2015 – 21 June 2015
Teams13 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played3
Goals scored16 (5.33 per match)
Top scorer(s) Attila Dálnoky
Isle of Man Ciaran McNulty
Isle of Man Conor Doyle
(2 goals)
← N/A
2018 →

The 2016 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification is a process to decide a number of the teams that will play in the 2016 ConIFA World Football Cup. Unlike the previous tournament, this will be the first one that will use a measure of qualification. The first qualification match played was on 30 May 2015 between the newly constituted Felvidék team and the team representing Alderney, with the first goal scored by Felvidék's Zoltán Novota.

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.

During the planning process for the European Football Cup, ConIFA took the decision that, in addition to finding its first European champions, the competition would also serve as a qualification tournament for the 2016 World Football Cup, with the top three teams gaining automatic entry into the WFC.[2] The finalised European Football Cup eventually featured a total of eight teams, including both the current WFC champions, Countea de Nissea, and the runners up, Ellan Vannin. A number of the participants undertook warm-up games prior to the start of the tournament,[3] with Ellan Vannin planning a pair of back-to-back charity games over the weekend of the 30-31 May against Alderney.[4][5] However, in mid-May 2015, a few weeks prior to the fixtures taking place, the fixtures as planned were cancelled and replaced by a four team tournament called the Niamh Challenge Cup, with Ellan Vannin and Alderney joined by teams representing Felvidék and Punjab. At the same time, ConIFA announced that they were officially sanctioning the tournament, with the winners gaining automatic entry to the WFC.[6] A second tournament, the Benedikt Fontana Cup, hosted in Switzerland by the Fussballauswahl Raetia, was announced as taking place in parallel with the EFC in June 2015, with three participants, including the hosts Raetia, Felvidék and the Chagos Islands. ConIFA also announced that this too would serve as a qualification tournament for the WFC, with the winner gaining automatic entry.[7]

In addition to the qualification process that ConIFA put in place, the organisation announced in May that it had reached an agreement with the football association representing the Aymara people for their team to be the first South Americans to play at the World Football Cup.[8]

Qualified Teams

Team Method of
qualification 		Date of
qualification 		Finals
appearance 		Previous
appearance 		Previous best
performance
Aymará Invitation 13 May 2015 1st N/A N/A
Isle of Man Ellan Vannin Niamh Challenge Cup winners 31 May 2015 2nd 2014 Runners-up (2014)

Qualification

In the qualification process, Ellan Vannin, had two opprtunities to qualify; as the organisers and hosts of the Niamh Challenge Cup, and through participation in the ConIFA European Football Cup.

Niamh Challenge Cup

The Niamh Challenge Cup was a four team knockout tournament over two days; the winners of the two games played on the first day advanced to the final, with the winner of that game qualifying automatically for the WFC.

30 May 2015 (2015-05-30) Match 1  Alderney 1-2 Felvidék The Bowl, Douglas
11:30 BST Josh Concanen 60' 40' Zoltan Novatar
61' Attilia Dalonky
30 May 2015 (2015-05-30) Match 2 Isle of Man Ellan Vannin 8-1 Panjab Sikh Empire The Bowl, Douglas
15:00 BST Sean Quaye 11', 37'
Ciaran McNulty 15'
Conor Doyle 44'
Frank Jones 50', 55'
Furo Davies 67'
Liam Doyle 75'		 ? 28' Referee: Andrew Lodge (Isle of Man)
31 May 2015 (2015-05-31) Final Felvidék 1-3 Ellan Vannin Isle of Man The Bowl, Douglas
17:30 BST 72' Attila Dálnoky Report Ciaran McNulty 20'
Sam Caine 25'
Conor Doyle 88'

2015 European Football Cup

The 2015 European Football Cup featured a total of eight teams, divided into two groups of four for the first round. The top two in each group advanced to the semi-finals. The winner of the tournament, runner-up and team that finished third were automatically awarded places in the 2016 World Football Cup.

Key to colours in group tables
Teams that advanced to the semi-finals

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20 June 2015 SF1 1st Group A v 2nd Group B Stadion Oláh Gábor Út, Debrecen
14:00 CEST
20 June 2015 SF2 1st Group B v 2nd Group A Stadion Oláh Gábor Út, Debrecen
17:00 CEST
21 June 2015 3rd Place Play-Off Loser SF1 v Loser SF2 Stadion Oláh Gábor Út, Debrecen
13:00 CEST
21 June 2015 Final Winner SF1 v Winner SF2 Stadion Oláh Gábor Út, Debrecen
16:00 CEST

Benedikt Fontana Cup

The Benedikt Fontana Cup was a two game tournament held over two days in June 2015 between Raetia and the Chagos Islands, with the winners automatically qualifying for the World Football Cup. The competition was originally planned as a three team tournament, with Panjab and Felvidek due to take part alongside the hosts. Panjab were forced to withdraw in May 2015, and were replaced by the Chagos Islands.[9] Subsequently, Felvidek also withdrew, leaving it as a two-legged tie, with the winner (and qualification place) decided by the aggregate score.

19 June 2015 (2015-06-19) 1st Leg  Raetia v Chagos Islands  Ringstrasse, Chur
20:00 CEST
20 June 2015 (2015-06-20) 2nd Leg  Chagos Islands v Raetia  Sportplatz Vial, Domat/Ems
16:00 CEST

References

  1. ^ "About Us". ConIFA. Confederation of independent Football Associations. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  2. ^ "European Football Cup 2015". ConIFA. Confederation of independent Football Associations. 27 April 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  3. ^ "Calendar". ConIFA. Confederation of independent Football Associations. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Ellan Vannin announced ConIFA warm up plans". BBC Sport. BBC. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  5. ^ "Niamh Challenge Matches – Ellan Vannin vs. Alderney". Niamh's Next Step. 8 April 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  6. ^ "Ellan Vannin to host tournament at end of month". Yorkshire Evening Post. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  7. ^ "Benedikt Fontana Cup". ConIFA. Confederation of Independent Football Associations. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
  8. ^ Jockel, Jens (16 May 2015). "Signing of Team Aymara – Chile-Trip of our South America Director". ConIFA. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
  9. ^ "Chagos ersetzt Panjab". FA Raetia (in German). 22 May 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2015.
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