#Cyprus football

The Turkish Cypriot authorities on Saturday evening announced plans to build a new football stadium in Nicosia, which they say will adhere to European football governing body Uefa’s “Category 4” ...

A bicommunal football match was held in Nicosia on Saturday morning, involving amateur players from Turkish Cypriot club Yenikent Percinci and Greek Cypriot club Apollon Yeri, both of which are ...

Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman sent letters to UN secretary general Antonio Guterres, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Barcelona FC president Joan Laporta on Friday, to complain ...

Olympiacos and Nea Salamina drew 3-3 in a goal filled encounter at the GSP on Friday, in the opening round of the championship. Olympiacos took an early lead in the ...

Pafos FC will host Scottish side Heart of Midlothian and travel to Italy to face Atalanta during the league phase of this season’s Conference League, with the draw having ...

Cypriot champions Omonia will host Turkish giants Besiktas in this season’s Europa League league phase, with the Istanbul-based side featuring on a star-studded fixture list for Henning Berg’s ...

Government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis on Thursday insisted that in making efforts to ensure the cancellation of a children’s football camp which was due to be organised under licence on ...

FC Barcelona has cancelled a two-week children’s football camp that was to take place in the occupied north next month following a barrage of complaints. The link to the ...

Attempting to force the cancellation of a children’s football camp “is clearly a defeat for all people and for humanity as a whole”, Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman said ...

Cyprus Football Association chairman Haris Loizides wrote a letter to his Spanish counterpart Rafael Louzan, urging him to discourage footballing giant Barcelona from organising a children’s football camp in ...

The 65-year-old father of an 11-year-old girl who was left alone at their Paphos home while he travelled to Albania to watch a football match was arrested upon his return ...

A Cameroonian professional footballer faces deportation and is currently incarcerated at the Limnes detention centre, despite reportedly being a key prosecution witness in a criminal case regarding alleged financial crimes ...

Kevin Keegan, a two-time Ballon d’Or winner and former England captain, visited Cyprus on several occasions during the 1980s, taking part in exhibition matches that remain part of local ...

The first World Cup that Giovanni remembers vividly was South Africa in 2010. He was 15 at the time, on summer holiday, and went a little football-mad, watching every game. Life got ...

Two late goals saw Pafos FC beat Apollon to win the Cyprus Cup at Nicosia’s GSP Stadium on Friday night, with the west coast-based side winning the island’s ...

Apollon Limassol and Paphos FC will contest this year’s Coca-Cola Cup final after securing their places through semi-final results on Wednesday. Apollon progressed following a goalless draw against Apoel ...

An amateur football cup final in London which is set to see a primarily Turkish Cypriot team face off against a primarily Greek Cypriot team has been hailed as an “...

A four-year memorandum of cooperation was signed on Monday between the ministry of education and the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) that will see football introduced in high schools. The agreement ...

Enosis Neon Paralimni FC celebrated its 90th anniversary with an event in Ayia Napa on Friday evening, during which President Nikos Christodoulides made the club a donation of €30,000 to mark ...

Supporters’ groups from across Europe voiced their opposition to attempts from European leagues to stage domestic matches outside the country, saying on Wednesday that the concept undermines the rules of ...

The top tax official will on Wednesday give wayward football clubs one last chance to comply with their obligations or else, reports said on Tuesday. Tax commissioner Soteris Markides will ...

Giorgos Koumas, the controversy-ridden head of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) announced on Tuesday that he will step down in order to ‘protect’ the sport. Koumas will quit well ahead ...

Four football clubs are racing against time to pay off their social insurance debts to the state, but Monday’s deadline is proving difficult to meet. The clubs collectively owe ...

Omonia and Pafos FC are set to face off on Thursday night in the first ever all-Cypriot match in European competition. The match, which kicks off at 10pm at Nicosia’...