The smart badge of the Republic of Artsakh, yes you guessed, in the South Caucasus, is part of Azerbaijan. This state hosts the Sportsbet 2019 Conifa European Cup, a tournament held every 2019.Recently, the hosts have been Padania in the county of Nice, 2015 and Northern Cyprus 2017.
Minority states, stateless people and regions who are not affiliated to FIFA are included and matches have been played since June 1st. 12 teams opted to play but four pulled out, so 8 teams ended up with South Ossetia (from Georgia not Yorkshire BUT see link below), won overall,
Western Armenia (E.Turkey) runners-up and
Abkhazia (Eastern Black Sea, NW Georgia) 3rd.
Hosts cities were Stepanakert, Martakert, Martuni and Askeran: none of which I have heard of.
Twelve teams were sorted originally as:
Artsakh, Abkhazia, Padania (N.Italy), Szekely (Roumania)
County of Nice (withdrew), Donetsk PR (withdrew), Sampi (northern Scandinavia-the Sami tribe), W. Armenia.
Chameria (Epirus Greece), Luhansk PR Russia, Sardinia (both withdrew) and S. Ossetia.
In the end, 8 states competed in two divisions.
Abkhazia won their division, Chameria second
S, Ossetia won theirs with W. Armenia second.
Semi-final:
Abkhazia lost to W Armenia on penalties 0-3 after 1-1 (7000 watched this)
S Ossetia beat Chameria 6-5 on pens after 0-0 (500 watched)
Abkhazia drew with Chameria 0-0 and won on pens 5-4 (6,200) for third place on June 8th
W. Armenia lost to S. Ossetia 0-1 in the Final (12,000 watched) on 9th June.
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/yorkshire-caps.html Come on Yorkshire.
Other potential states could be Cornwall, Jersey, Greenland, Monaco, Sardinia and the Romani!
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