UEFA Regions' Cup

UEFA Regions' Cup
Organising body	UEFA
Founded	1996;28 years ago
Region	Europe
Number of teams	Up to 53 (Qualifiers); 8 (Finals)
Current champions	Galicia (1st title)
Website	uefa.com/regionscup
	2025 UEFA Regions' Cup

Last updated October 30, 2024

The UEFA Regions' Cup is a football competition for amateur teams in Europe, run by UEFA. It was held for the first time in 1999 and has been played biennially since. The 2023 champions are the Galicia team from Spain.

The competition was created in 1996 as there was no European level competition for amateur teams. The UEFA Amateur Cup, a previous attempt to organise a continental competition for amateurs, had run from 1966 to 1978, but ceased due to lack of interest from both the public and amateur teams themselves. In contrast to today's Regions' Cup, in which amateur regions are represented, the previous competition was for representative amateur national teams.

Each UEFA member nation may enter one representative amateur team into the competition, with regions having to win a domestic amateur competition (such as the FA Inter-League Cup) in order to qualify.

The first two finals were won by teams from the host nation. Thus far, Italy and Spain have been the most successful nation in the competition, with their representatives winning respectively three of the twelve editions.

Format

All of the 55 UEFA-affiliated associations are eligible to submit a team to compete in the Regions' Cup, provided they hold a domestic qualifying competition to decide which team will represent that nation. Smaller member nations, however, are permitted to enter a representative national side.

Teams were entered by 32 nations for the inaugural tournament in 1999 and competed in one qualifying round. As interest in the tournament grew over the years, the qualifying stage was enlarged and an extra group round added in 2005, scrapping the playoffs added in 2001.

The preliminary round consists of a small number of teams split into groups, with the best from each group being included in the draw for the intermediary round. In the intermediary round, the teams are placed into eight groups of four teams. The teams in each group play each other once and the team finishing top of the group qualifies for the Regions' Cup finals. The eight group winners are placed into two groups of four for the final tournament and the winners of these two final groups, after each team has played one another once, play in the final, with the winners being crowned champions. Third place is shared between the two teams which finish second in their respective groups.

One aspect of the Regions' Cup that is different from most other international club tournaments is the hosting of games. As teams play each other once in the preliminary and intermediary rounds, in contrast to the more common two-legged fixtures, each group has all its matches held in one particular region. For example, in the 2009 tournament, all the preliminary Group 1 matches were played in San Marino. Another unusual feature of the Regions' Cup is the choice of host for the final tournament. In most football tournaments, the host nation or city is decided by the governing body before qualification begins. In the Regions' Cup, however, the host is chosen only after most of the eight finalist teams have qualified, with one of the qualified regions selected as host.

Results

Edition	Year	Hosts	Winners	Score	Runners-up	Bronze medals
1	1999 details	Italy	Veneto	3–2 ( a.e.t. )	Madrid	Prague	Kyiv Oblast
2	2001 details	Czech Republic	Central Moravia	2–2 4–2 ( p )	Braga	Madrid	Plovdiv
3	2003 details	Germany	Piedmont-Aosta Valley	2–1	Maine	Szabolcs Gabona	Württemberg
4	2005 details	Poland	Basque Country	1–0	South-West Sofia	Kzeso	Central Slovakia
5	2007 details	Bulgaria	Lower Silesia	2–1 ( a.e.t. )	South-East Region	Aveiro	Tuzla Canton
6	2009 details	Croatia	Castile and León	2–1	Oltenia	Privolzhie	Kempen
7	2011 details	Portugal	Braga	2–1	Leinster & Munster	Zlín	Belgrade
8	2013 details	Italy	Veneto	0–0 5–4 ( p )	Catalonia	Eastern Region	Isloch
9	2015 details	Ireland	Eastern Region	1–0	Zagreb	Ankara	Württemberg
10	2017 details	Turkey	Zagreb	1–0	Munster/Connacht	Istanbul	Rostov Oblast
11	2019 details	Germany	Lower Silesia	3–2	Bavaria	Istanbul	Castile and León
-	2021 details	N/A	Cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic ^[1]
12	2023 details	Spain	Galicia	3–1	Belgrade	Bavaria	Zlín
13	2025 details

Finals

5 November 1999

Veneto	3–2 (a.e.t.)	Madrid
Borriero <45' Giaretti >45' De Toni 120'	(Report)	Moreno 9' Sanz Pascual 71'

Stadio Comunale delle Terme, Abano Terme

Attendance: 700^[2]

Referee: Guido Wildhaber (Switzerland)

24 June 2001

Braga	2–2 (a.e.t) (2–4 pen.)	Central Moravia
Ferreira 55' Freitas 84'	(Report)	David 12' Svach 90+4' (pen.)

Letná Stadion, Zlín

Attendance: 2,820^[2]

Referee: Tony Chapron (France)

28 June 2003

Maine	1–2	Piedmont–Aosta Valley
Kharraz 83'	(Report)	Borgna 24', 29'

Albstadion, Heidenheim

Attendance: 800^[2]

Referee: Kris Hermans (Belgium)

9 July 2005

South-West Sofia	0–1	Basque Country
	(Report)	Arroyo 33'

KS Proszowianka Stadium, Proszowice

Attendance: 1,300^[3]

Referee: Novo Panić (Bosnia and Herzegovina)

26 June 2007

South-East Region	1–2 (a.e.t.)	Lower Silesia
Stoyanov 66'	(Report)	Sudoł 78' Jaskułowski 114'

Hadzhi Dimitar Stadium, Sliven

Attendance: 3,500^[4]

Referee: Paolo Tagliavento (Italy)

22 June 2009

Oltenia	1–2	Castile and León
Sîrbu 25'	(Report)	Ramírez 20' Robles 81'

Stadion NK Inter Zaprešić, Zaprešić

Attendance: 200^[5]

Referee: Radek Příhoda (Czech Republic)

28 June 2011

Braga	2–1	Leinster & Munster
Nobre 62' Fortunato 84'	Report	O'Sullivan 68'

Cidade de Barcelos, Barcelos

Attendance: 1036^[6]

Referee: Ken Henry Johnson (Norway)

29 June 2013

Veneto	0–0 (5–4 pen.)	Catalonia
	(Report)

Comunale Delle Terme, Abano Terme

Attendance: 800^[7]

Referee: Artur Soares Dias (Portugal)

4 July 2015

Eastern Region	1–0	Zagreb
David Lacey 10'	Report

Tallaght Stadium, Dublin

Attendance: 1172^[8]

Referee: Nikolaj Hänni (Switzerland)

9 July 2017

Zagreb	1–0	Munster/Connacht
Adžić 26'	Report

TFF Riva Stadium, Istanbul

Attendance: 175^[9]

Referee: Artyom Kuchin (Kazakhstan)

26 June 2019

Bavaria	2–3	Lower Silesia
Türk 35' (pen.) Ekin 90' (pen.)	Report	Jaros 41' Traczyk 47' (pen.) Bohdanowicz 80' (pen.)

Wacker-Arena, Burghausen

Attendance: 1224^[10]

Referee: Sebastian Colţescu (Romania)

17 June 2023

19:00

Galicia	3–1	Belgrade
Rial 9' Rey 41' (pen.) Martinez 74'	Report	Kolarević 57'

Campo Municipal de A Lomba, Vilagarcía de Arousa

Attendance: 4.085

Referee: Kristoffer Karlsson (Sweden)

Titles by country

Country	Titles	Runners-up	Winning teams	Second-placed teams
Spain	3	2	Basque Country (2005)	Madrid (1999)
			Castile and León (2009)	Catalonia (2013)
			Galicia (2023*)
Italy	3	0	Veneto (1999, 2013)	None
Italy	3	0	Piedmont–Aosta Valley (2003)	None
Poland	2	0	Lower Silesia (2007, 2019)	None
Ireland	1	2	Eastern Region (2015*)	Leinster & Munster (2011)
Ireland	1	2	Eastern Region (2015*)	Munster/Connacht (2017)
Portugal	1	1	Braga (2011*)	Braga (2001)
Croatia	1	1	Zagreb (2017)	Zagreb (2015)
Czech Republic	1	0	Central Moravia (2001*)	None
Bulgaria	0	2	None	South-West Sofia (2005)
Bulgaria	0	2	None	South-East Region (2007*)
France	0	1	None	Maine (2003)
Romania	0	1	None	Oltenia (2009)
Germany	0	1	None	Bavaria (2019*)
Serbia	0	1	None	Belgrade (2023)

* = Hosts

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[1] "UEFA competitions to resume in August". UEFA.com. 17 June 2020.

[UEFA-2] 1 2 3 "UEFA Regions' Cup. All-Time Statistics". UEFA.com. Union of European Football Associations. 18 March 2005. Archived from the original on 18 March 2005. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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[4] "South-East Region vs. Dolnoslaski" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 26 June 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[5] "Oltenia vs. Castilla y León" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 26 June 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[6] "Braga vs. Leinster" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[7] "Veneto vs. Selección Catalana" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 29 June 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[8] "Eastern Region vs. Zagreb" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 4 July 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[9] "Zagreb vs. Region 2" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 9 July 2017. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

[10] "Bavaria vs. Dolny Śląsk" (JSON). Union of European Football Associations. 26 June 2019. Retrieved 9 April 2022.

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