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South Ossetia
Association	Football Federation of the Republic of South Ossetia
Confederation	ConIFA
Head coach	Soslan Kochiev
Top scorer	Artur Elbaev (9)
First colours	Second colours
First international
	Abkhazia 3–0 South Ossetia ; (Sukhumi, Abkhazia; 23 September 2013)
Biggest win
	Darfur 0–19 South Ossetia ; (Östersund, Sapmi; 2 June 2014)
Biggest defeat
	South Ossetia 0–8 Northern Cyprus ; (Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus; 6 June 2017)
ConIFA World Football Cup
Appearances	1 (first in 2014)
Best result	4th place (2014)
ConIFA European Football Cup
Appearances	2 (first in 2017)
Best result	Champion (2019)

The South Ossetia National Football Team, is the national team of South Ossetia. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Championship. South Ossetia made its debut against Abkhazia in Sukhumi on 23 September 2013 where they suffered a 3–0 defeat.^[1]

South Ossetia competed at the first ConIFA World Football Cup in 2014 finishing in fourth place overall^[2] and won the 2019 ConIFA European championship.

History edit

The Football Federation of South Ossetia was created in 1997 and its futsal team made its official debut in the 2010 UEFS Futsal Men's Championship, finishing seventh. Two years later, it finished eighth.

The football team played its first match ever on 23 September 2013. It was a friendly match against Abkhazia and it was defeated by 0–3.^[3] One year later, it was admitted in the Confederation of Independent Football Associations and made their international debut in the 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup, where they finished in the fourth place overall.

In 2015, South Ossetia was going to make their debut in the CONIFA European Football Cup in Hungary, but their players were not allowed to travel due to pressures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.^[4]

On 9 June 2019, South Ossetia won its first European Championship by defeating Western Armenia in the final.

International record edit

At CONIFA World Football Cup edit

Year	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
2014	4th	5	1	1	3	21	10
2016	did not qualify
2018	did not qualify
2020	Tournament Suspended
Total		5	1	1	3	21	10

At CONIFA European Football Cup edit

Year	Position	GP	W	D	L	GF	GA
2015	did not enter
2017	8th	4	0	0	4	2	16
2019		5	3	2	0	7	4
2021	Qualify
Total		9	3	2	4	9	20

Current squad edit

The following 23 players were called up to the squad for the 2019 CONIFA European Football Cup.

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Ruslan Murtazov	(2003-03-11)11 March 2003 (aged 16)	Spartak Tskhinvali
2	2DF	Akhsar Dzhioev	(1987-12-19)19 December 1987 (aged 31)	Spartak Tskhinvali
3	2DF	Aleksei Muldarov	(1984-04-24)24 April 1984 (aged 35)	Spartak Tskhinvali
4	2DF	Atsamaz Bekoev	(1994-01-07)7 January 1994 (aged 25)	Spartak Tskhinvali
5	3MF	Georgy Kabulov	(1989-11-23)23 November 1989 (aged 29)	FC Mashuk-KMV Pyatigorsk
6	3MF	Radion Vazagov	(1999-02-22)22 February 1999 (aged 20)	Spartak Vladikavkaz
7	4FW	Batradz Gurtsiev	(1998-12-12)12 December 1998 (aged 20)	FC Chayka Peschanokopskoye
8	3MF	Soslan Djidjoev	(1997-08-10)10 August 1997 (aged 21)	Spartak Tskhinvali
9	2DF	Stanislav Tedeev	(1996-07-06)6 July 1996 (aged 22)	Spartak Tskhinvali
10	3MF	Gamat Doguzov	(2002-05-19)19 May 2002 (aged 17)	Spartak Tskhinvali
11	4FW	Dzambolat Khastsayev	(1995-02-22)22 February 1995 (aged 24)	Spartak Vladikavkaz
12	1GK	Muharbeg Buraev	(1997-04-29)29 April 1997 (aged 22)	Spartak Vladikavkaz
13	2DF	Azamat Kokoyev	(1998-01-22)22 January 1998 (aged 21)	Spartak Tskhinvali
14	2DF	Timur Sokolov	(1983-06-02)2 June 1983 (aged 35)	Spartak Tskhinvali
15	3MF	Marat Beteev	(1993-01-08)8 January 1993 (aged 26)	Spartak Tskhinvali
16	3MF	Soslanbeg Dzagoev	(1998-02-12)12 February 1998 (aged 21)	Kyzyltash Bakhchisaray
17	3MF	Mirza Alborov	(1987-12-17)17 December 1987 (aged 31)	Ossetia Shield
18	2DF	Arsen Kaytov	(1989-07-02)2 July 1989 (aged 29)	FC Armavir
19	2DF	Soslan Kabulov	(1993-08-15)15 August 1993 (aged 25)	Spartak Tskhinvali
20	4FW	Mikhail Gagloev	(1997-07-16)16 July 1997 (aged 21)	Spartak Tskhinvali
21	3MF	Batradz Tedeev	(1995-11-01)1 November 1995 (aged 23)	Inkomsport Yalta
22	4FW	Ibragim Bazayev	(1989-08-30)30 August 1989 (aged 29)	Spartak Tskhinvali

Top goalscorers edit

Only matches at CONIFA tournaments are counted.

#	Player	Goals
1	Artur Elbaev	9
2	Batradz Gurtiev	5
2	Rustam Khutiev	5
4	Ibrahim Bagayev	2
4	Vladimir Salbiev	2

Matches played edit

23 September 2013 Friendly	Abkhazia	3–0	South Ossetia	Sukhumi
	Dzeniya Bondarenko (pen.) Tania	Report		Stadium: Republican Stadium

2 June 2014 2014 ConIFA WC GS	Darfur	0–19	South Ossetia	Östersund
13:00			Elbaev 10', 39', 42', 62', 75', 76', 82', 88' Salbiev 13', 40' Kobaladze 45' Khutiev 56', 59', 70', 79', 90' Kudziev 63' Kulov 68' Tskhovrebov 90+1'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena

3 June 2014 2014 ConIFA WC GS	South Ossetia	1–3	Padania	Östersund
13:00	Elbaev 46'		Innocenti 6' Mussi 37' Enoch Barwuah 86'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena

4 June 2014 2014 ConIFA WC QF	Abkhazia	0–0 (0–2 p)	South Ossetia	Östersund
				Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena
	Penalties
	Agrba Tsveyba Dmitri Akhba Zhanava		Khadarzev Siukaev Karatsev Kudziev

6 June 2014 2014 ConIFA WC SF	County of Nice	3–0	South Ossetia	Östersund
14:00	Tchokounte 3', 28' Puyoo 83'			Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena

8 June 2014 2014 ConIFA WC 3rd	South Ossetia	1–4	Arameans Suryoye	Östersund
10:00	Siukaev 92'		Kacho 9', 24', 73' Percin 47'	Stadium: Jämtkraft Arena

5 June 2017 2017 ConIFA EC GS	Abkhazia	2–1	South Ossetia	Kyrenia
20:00	Kortava 1' Shoniya 90+1'		Kadjaev 61'	Stadium: Mete Adanır Stadium

6 June 2017 2017 ConIFA EC GS	South Ossetia	0–8	Northern Cyprus	Kyrenia
20:00			Yaşınses 13' Taşkıran 15', 20', 58' Çıdamlı 57', 68' Turan 62' (pen.) Gök 88'	Stadium: Mete Adanır Stadium

7 June 2017 2017 ConIFA EC GS	South Ossetia	1–4	Kárpátalja	Famagusta
20:00	Kochiev 85'		Mile 20' Baksa 33' Barta 45+1' Kész 62'	Stadium: Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadium

9 June 2017 2017 ConIFA EC PR	South Ossetia	0–2	Felvidék	Famagusta
20:00			Molnár 5', 42'	Stadium: Dr. Fazıl Küçük Stadium

2 June 2019 2019 ConIFA EC GS	Western Armenia	1–2	South Ossetia	Martuni
18:00	Aslanyan 79'	^{[citation needed]}	Gurtsiev 29', 56'	Stadium: Avakyan Arena Attendance: 1,080 Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

3 June 2019 2019 ConIFA EC GS	South Ossetia	2–1	Padania	Stepanakert
20:00	Gurtsiev 55' Bazayev 80'	Report	Ravasi 89' (pen.)	Stadium: Stepanakert Republican Stadium Attendance: 5,000 Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov

4 June 2019 2019 ConIFA EC GS	South Ossetia	2–2	Székely Land	Askeran
16:00	Gurtsiev 72', 84'		Vékás 54' Kovács 82'	Stadium: Askeran City Stadium Attendance: 500 Referee: Arkadi Akobyan

6 June 2019 2019 ConIFA EC SF	South Ossetia	0–0 (6–5 p)	Chameria	Askeran
16:00				Stadium: Askeran City Stadium Attendance: 500 Referee: Ahmed Sabah Radha Ahmed

9 June 2019 2019 ConIFA EC F	Western Armenia	0–1	South Ossetia	Stepanakert
18:00			Bazayev 65'	Stadium: Stepanakert Republican Stadium Attendance: 12,000 Referee: Dmitrii Zhukov

27 August 2019 Friendly	Luhansk	4–3	South Ossetia	Luhansk
16:00		Report		Stadium: Avanhard Stadium

22 September 2019 Friendly	South Ossetia	2–0	Luhansk	Tskhinvali
15:00		Report		Stadium: Guram Tskhovrebov Stadium

Managers edit

Manager	Period	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	Win %
Pukhaev Ruslan	2013–2017	10	1	1	8	010.0
Soslan Kochiev	2017–	7	4	2	1	057.1
Totals		17	5	3	9	29.41

President edit

President	Year(s)
Dzhioev Alan Amiranovich	2012–present

References edit

^ Fifa, Non (10 October 2013). "World Cups and Beyond: South Ossetia make international bow in Abkhazia loss". nonfifafootball.blogspot.com. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
^ "South Ossetia - Conifa World football". www.conifa.org. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
^ "South Ossetia make international bow in Abkhazia loss". World Cups and Beyond. 10 October 2013.
^ "Сборной Южной Осетии по футболу отказано в участии в чемпионате ConIFA" (in Russian). Kavpolit. 17 June 2015.