CFA considers calling in foreign refs amid growing corruption claims
The chairman of the football association (CFA) will hold a meeting on Tuesday with the referee association to discuss having foreign referees officiating first division...
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Football association will issue decision on Uzoho case on Friday
The decision of a Cyprus Football Association (CFA) judge on whether to uphold the appeal by Apollonas FC against the validity of a match with...
Head of the football association dies aged 61
The head of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA) Costakis Koutsokoumnis died on Monday at the age of 61. Koutsokoumnis, who had been battling cancer for...
Football association deputy head’s car target of arson attack
A car belonging to the vice president of the football association, Giorgos Koumas, was destroyed by fire in Nicosia at around 4am on Wednesday. According...
Omonia demands CFA resignations after match-fixing allegations
One of the island’s biggest football clubs, Omonia, on Wednesday asked for the resignation of the football association’s (CFA) board, accusing it of corruption. Speaking...
Large scale operation against Limassol underworld (updated)
Police said Friday, that an operation in Limassol, which began earlier in the morning in a bid to find weapons and explosives, ended with no...
Party over for betting mafia, CFA boss says
The party is over for the betting mafia, Costakis Koutsokoumnis, the Cyprus football association president said Monday at an extraordinary general meeting that focused on...
CFA receives third notification about suspicious betting
The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) has received a third notification about suspicious betting activity related to a particular fixture, the second involving one team. The...
CFA sees sinister motives behind Guardian report
A report in the British daily The Guardian highlighting the sorry state of affairs of the island’s football scene, has irked the Cyprus Football Association...
Scot Dallas in charge of Cyprus referees
Hugh Dallas has been appointed by the Cyprus Football Association to train and oversee local football referees. The Scotsman, a former international referee himself, officiated...
Panayi calls for radical overhaul of refereeing
By Angelos Anastasiou Whistle-blowing referee Marios Panayi, whose public denunciation of the Cyprus Football Association’s top brass and reports of match-fixing in Cyprus stirred up...
Missing document delays TCFA-CFA union
By Evie Andreou A MISSING document dated some 60 years ago is delaying the much-anticipated reunification of the island’s two football bodies, remaining divided since...
Koutsokoumnis CFA head for seventh time
Costakis Koutsokoumnis was officially given the green light on Monday to serve his seventh consecutive term as head of the Cyprus Football Association (CFA). Koutsokoumnis,...
Police probe four companies connected to CFA deputy
By Constantinos Psillides POLICE are looking into four companies allegedly linked to Cyprus Football Association’s deputy head Giorgos Koumas, on suspicion that Cytavision, the cable...
No room for disabled AEL fans at cup final
By Evie Andreou The Cyprus Football Association’s (CFA) decision to exclude disabled AEL fans from watching the cup final with APOEL on Wednesday by choosing...
Football defection highlights Turkey’s failed policy on Turkish Cypriots
By Ertan Karpazli It has been over sixty years since ethnic tensions in Cyprus caused Turkish Cypriots and Greek Cypriots to part ways on the...
Cyprus footballers have high chance of being approached to fix matches
By Angelos Anastasiou A footballer in Cyprus has a 34 per cent chance of being approached by a stranger, and a 23 per cent chance...
CFA plans to dismantle refs’ body
By Constantinos Psillides THE Cyprus Football Association (CFA) is considering dismantling the Cyprus Referee Association (CRA) following weeks of revelations of corruption at all levels...
Referee saving ‘best card until last’
By Constantinos Psillides WHISTLEBLOWER referee Marios Panayi laid into Cyprus Football Association chairman Kostakis Koutsokoumnis yesterday, accusing him of blackmailing smaller football clubs in order...
CFA ignores leaks of refs being told to fix games
By Constantinos Psillides THE Cyprus Football Association (CFA) has yet to respond to recorded phone conversations leaked by the media, where members of the Referees...
