South Ossetia national football team

South Ossetia
Shirt badge/Association crest
AssociationFootball Federation of the Republic of South Ossetia
ConfederationConIFA
Head coachSoslan Kochiev
Top scorerArtur Elbaev (9)
First colours
Second colours
First international
 Abkhazia 3–0 South Ossetia South Ossetia
(Sukhumi, Abkhazia; 23 September 2013)
Biggest win
 Darfur 0–19 South Ossetia South Ossetia
(Östersund, Sapmi; 2 June 2014)
Biggest defeat
South Ossetia South Ossetia 0–8 Northern Cyprus 
(Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus; 6 June 2017)
ConIFA World Football Cup
Appearances1 (first in 2014)
Best result4th place (2014)
ConIFA European Football Cup
Appearances2 (first in 2017)
Best resultChampion (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.

  1. ^ Fifa, Non (10 October 2013). "World Cups and Beyond: South Ossetia make international bow in Abkhazia loss". nonfifafootball.blogspot.com. Retrieved 16 June 2017.
  2. ^ "South Ossetia - Conifa World football". www.conifa.org. Retrieved 16 June 2017.