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2006 FIFI Wild Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Republic of St. Pauli (official) Germany (location)
Dates	29 May–3 June
Teams	6
Venue(s)	1 (in 1 host city)
Final positions
Champions	Northern Cyprus (1st title)
Runners-up	Zanzibar
Third place	Gibraltar
Fourth place	Republic of St. Pauli
Tournament statistics
Matches played	10
Goals scored	33 (3.3 per match)

The FIFI Wild Cup was an alternative to the FIFA World Cup, held from May 29 to June 3, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany, prior to the official FIFA World Cup which started one week later. It was run by the Federation of International Football Independents (FIFI).

FIFI was a body composed of countries not recognized at the time by FIFA and those whose logistics or political disputes prevented them from playing representative football. The Millerntor-Stadion in Hamburg hosted all the tournament matches. The tournament was sponsored by a German online gambling consortium called myBet, as well as Goool.de Sportswear GmbH, who paid a combined €750,000 to fund the tournament. The tournament had 2 mascots, Schäfer and Schmitz. Media patronage was provided by TV stations DSF and ProSieben. The tournament was organized by Essen Agencies, Carat Sponsorship GmbH, and Western Star GmbH.

According to organizer Jorg Pommeranz, FIFI had to overcome various obstacles, such as China and FIFA applying pressure to exclude Tibet, and difficulties for players representing Northern Cyprus obtaining visas to enter Germany.

The tournament winners were the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Spectator attendance was reported as “relatively weak”, with an average of 400 fans per match, although this could have been affected by poor weather. Consequently, a second edition of the tournament was deemed to be unlikely, although they considered a 2010 edition to be hosted by Greenland.

Participants

•  Greenland — an autonomous country within the Danish Realm and under the control of the Football Association of Greenland.
•  Northern Cyprus — an unrecognized state under the control of Cyprus Turkish Football Federation.
•  Zanzibar — autonomous part of Tanzania but member of CAF. Their manager for the tournament was Oliver Pocher.
•  Gibraltar — A British Overseas Territory. Gibraltar gained membership of UEFA in May 2013. The country gained membership of FIFA in May 2016.
•  Tibet — an autonomous region of China.
• Republic of St. Pauli — representing the St. Pauli area of Hamburg, the host city. (FC St. Pauli's junior team played as the Republic of St. Pauli.)

Monaco was invited but withdrew before the tournament began.

Group stage

Group A

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Republic of St. Pauli	4	2	1	1	0	8	1	+7
Gibraltar	4	2	1	1	0	6	1	+5
Tibet	0	2	0	0	2	0	12	−12

Republic of St. Pauli	1–1	Gibraltar
Hakan Demirci ?'		Lee Casciaro ?'

Republic of St. Pauli	7–0	Tibet
Abdul Yilmaz ?', ?', ?', ?' Hakan Demirci ?', ?' Dennis Daube ?'

Tibet	0–5	Gibraltar

Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Northern Cyprus	6	2	2	0	0	4	1	+3
Zanzibar	3	2	1	0	1	5	5	0
Greenland	0	2	0	0	2	2	5	−3

Northern Cyprus	1–0	Greenland
Ali Oraloğlu 55'

Northern Cyprus	3–1	Zanzibar
Agrey Morris 12' (o.g.) Derviş Kolcu 20' (pen.) Çagan Çerkez 60'		Salum Ussi Hamad 43'

Greenland	2–4	Zanzibar
Kaassannguaq Zeeb ?' Anders Cortsen ?'		Alek Mohammed ?', ?' Abdallah Juma Ally ?', ?'

Knockout stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	Northern Cyprus	2
	Gibraltar	0
					Northern Cyprus	0 (4)
					Zanzibar	0 (1)
	Republic of St. Pauli	1
	Zanzibar	2
					Third place
					Gibraltar	2
					Republic of St. Pauli	1

Semi-finals

Northern Cyprus	2–0	Gibraltar
Ali Oraloğlu 39' Dylan 90+2' (o.g.)

Republic of St. Pauli	1–2	Zanzibar
Sierra Mauni 13'		Coaui Maise 10', 90'

Third-place match

Republic of St. Pauli	1–2	Gibraltar

Final

Northern Cyprus	0–0	Zanzibar
Penalties
Amcaoglu Taşkıran Uçaner Ulusoy	4–1	Abdulla Mwinyi Ali

Goalscorers

Note: Some goalscorers from Gibraltar and Republic of St. Pauli are not listed because there is incomplete information on those games.

4 Goals

• Abdul Yilmaz (Republic of St. Pauli)

3 Goals

• Hakan Demirci (Republic of St. Pauli)

2 Goals

• Ali Oraloğlu
• Abdallah Juma Ally
• Alek Mohamed
• Coaui Maise

1 Goal

• Lee Cascario
• Anders Cortsen
• Kassannguaq Zeeb
• Çagan Çerkez
• Derviş Colcu
• Dennis Daube (Republic of St. Pauli)
• Sierra Mauni (Republic of St. Pauli)
• Salum Ussi Hamad

Own goals

• Dylan (against Northern Cyprus)
• Agrey Morris (against Northern Cyprus)

Final Standings

See also

• Viva World Cup
• CONIFA World Football Cup
• ELF Cup
• Non-FIFA international football

References

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2. "Willkommen beim FIFI Wild Cup 2006". wild-cup.de. 15 June 2006. Archived from the original on 15 June 2006. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
3. "Filip Bondy: Also-rans find World of own". New York Daily News. Archived from the original on 21 June 2006. Retrieved 21 June 2006.
4. ^ Lawry, Charlie (14 February 2018). "Defying FIFA: When 5 outcast nations competed in the 2006 Wild Cup". Planet Football. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
5. ^ "Nordzypern feiert ausgelassen Triumph beim "Fifi Wild Cup"" (in German). welt.de. 6 June 2006. Retrieved 22 December 2013.
6. "Gibraltar given full Uefa membership at London Congress". www.bbc.co.uk. 24 May 2013. Retrieved 4 September 2021.
7. "Fifa: Kosovo and Gibraltar become members of world governing body". www.bbc.co.uk. 13 May 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2021.

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