Football In Cyprus
Football is the country's most popular sport.
Short of some sporadic surprise wins versus higher-ranked countries, mostly on home soil, the national team has not enjoyed any success of note. On the other hand, Cypriot clubs have reached the Champions League Group Stage three times in recent years; that has made Cyprus the smallest sovereign state (in both terms of area and population) to have been represented in the main phase of Europe's most prestigious club tournament, since the introduction of the current format in 1992. APOEL F.C. made history in 2012 by being the first Cypriot team to reach the quarter finals of Champions League.
Moreover, the national association has organised various FIFA and UEFA events (tournaments, courses, meetings).
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“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have A BEER and an airline—it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.”
—Frank Zappa (1940–1993)