FIFI Wild Cup

The FIFI Wild Cup was an alternative to the FIFA World Cup, held from May 29 to June 3, 2006 in Hamburg, Germany, prior to the official FIFA World Cup which started one week later. It was run by the Federation of International Football Independents (FIFI). FIFI was a body composed of countries not recognized at the time by FIFA and those whose logistics or political disputes prevented them from playing representative football. The Millerntor Stadion in Hamburg hosted all the tournament matches. The tournament was sponsored by a German online gambling consortium called myBet, as well as Goool. de Sportswear GmbH, who paid a combined €750,000 to fund the tournament. The tournament had 2 mascots, Schäfer and Schmitz. Media patronage was provided by TV stations DSF and ProSieben. The tournament was organized by Essen Agencies, Carat Sponsorship GmbH, and Western Star GmbH. According to organizer Jorg Pommeranz, FIFI had to overcome various obstacles, such as China and FIFA applying pressure to exclude Tibet, and difficulties for players representing Northern Cyprus obtaining visas to enter Germany. The tournament winners were the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Spectator attendance was reported as “relatively weak”, with an average of 400 fans per match, although this could have been affected by poor weather. To give the organizers credit, they tried to make it feel like a proper tournament. Flags flew above the stadium and anthems played. A skydiver was hired to fly in and deliver the match ball for the final. The country gained membership of FIFA in May 2016. — an autonomous region of China. Republic of St. Pauli — representing the St. Pauli area of Hamburg, the host city. (FC St. Pauli's junior team played as the Republic of St. Pauli.) Monaco was invited but withdrew before the tournament began.

TeamPtsPldWDLGFGAGD Republic of St. Pauli4211081+74211061+502002012−12

Note: Some goalscorers from Gibraltar and Republic of St. Pauli are not listed because there is not enough information on those games.

Abdul Yilmaz (Republic of St. Pauli)

Hakan Demirci (Republic of St. Pauli)

+TeamRankPldWDLGFGAGDWin %Northern Cyprus144006151.000Zanzibar24202761.500Gibraltar34211844.625Republic of St. Pauli441121055.375Greenland5200225 3.000Tibet62002012 12.000