2 mins read CONIFA – the Confederation of Independent Football Associations – represents football associations around the world that are not members of FIFA.
These include de-facto nations, minority people, displaced diaspora and sports-isolated territories around the world, such as South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Western Armenia.
CONIFA’s European tournament, hosted in Artsakh, a de facto independent country in the South Caucasus that is internationally recognised as part of Azerbaijan, will officially be billed as the Sportsbet.io 2019 CONIFA European Football Cup.
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The previous CONIFA tournament, the 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup in London, was sponsored by gaming giant Paddy Power.
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