Cyprus national football team
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| Association |
Cyprus Football Association (CFA) Κυπριακή Ομοσπονδία Ποδοσφαίρου |
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| Confederation | UEFA (Europe) |
| Head coach | Christakis Christoforou |
| Captain | Constantinos Charalambides |
| Most caps | Ioannis Okkas (106) |
| Top scorer | Michalis Konstantinou (32) |
| Home stadium | GSP Stadium, Nicosia |
| FIFA code | CYP |
| FIFA ranking | |
| Current | 116  (12 January 2017)
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| Highest | 43 (September 2010) |
| Lowest | 142 (June 2014) |
| Elo ranking | |
| Current | 111 (26 January 2017) |
| Highest | 69 (22 March 2000) |
| Lowest | 141 (March 1992) |
| First international | |
Unofficial: Israel 3–1 Cyprus  (Tel-Aviv, Israel; July 30, 1949) Official:  Cyprus 1–1 Israel (Nicosia, Cyprus; November 13, 1960) |
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| Biggest win | |
Cyprus 5–0 Andorra  (Limassol, Cyprus; November 15, 2000)  Cyprus 5–0 Andorra (Nicosia, Cyprus; November 16, 2014) |
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| Biggest defeat | |
 West Germany 12–0 Cyprus (Essen, West Germany; May 21, 1969) |
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The Cyprus national football team (Greek: Εθνική ομάδα ποδοσφαίρου της Κύπρου) represents Cyprus in association football and is controlled by the Cyprus Football Association, the governing body for football in Cyprus. Cyprus' home ground is the GSP Stadium in Nicosia and the current coach is Christakis Christoforou. They have never reached the finals of either the European Championship or the World Cup.
The team's first match took place on 23 July 1949, one year after becoming a member of the world governing body FIFA: a friendly against Maccabi Tel-Aviv in Tel Aviv, ending in a 3–3 draw. Seven days later, the team had its first international game: a 3–1 defeat against Israel in the same city.
In November 1960, following independence from British rule, Cyprus drew its first post-independence official match 1–1 against Israel, as part of the 1962 FIFA World Cup qualifying tournament. Cyprus' first international victory was a 3–1 win against Greece on 27 November 1963 in a friendly. On 17 February 1968, Cyprus recorded their first competitive win, beating Switzerland 2–1 in a European Championship qualifying match in Nicosia.
In 1974, the national team enjoyed one of their most famous victories when they beat Northern Ireland 1–0 in Nicosia. On 12 February 1983, as part of the Euro 1984 qualifiers, Cyprus held world champions Italy to a 1–1 draw in Nicosia, followed a month later by the same result against Czechoslovakia. Four years later, in the Euro 1988 qualification, Cyprus recorded their first ever point achieved in an away match, against Poland. In 1989 they drew 1–1 with France in the World Cup qualifying match. Despite a number of triumphs on home soil, Cyprus had to wait until 1992 to record their first away win: a 2–0 victory against the Faroe Islands.
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