East Turkestan national football team explained

East Turkistan
Badge:	Kokbayraq flag.svg
Badge Size:	180px
Association:	East Turkistan Football Association
Confederation:	ConIFA
Coach:	Elshat Eslam
Top Scorer:	Ihtiyar Yusupov (2)
First Game:	8–2 (The Hague, Netherlands; 19 October 2019)
Largest Win:	8–2 (The Hague, Netherlands; 19 October 2019)
Largest Loss:	3–0 (Cergy, France; 14 December 2019)
Regional Name:	CONIFA World Football Cup
Regional Cup Apps:	None

The East Turkestan football team is a team from the Uyghur region of East Turkestan. Previously registered as Uyghur, it is a member of ConIFA.

History

On 19 October 2019, it played its first international game ever, that ended with a 8–2 against West Papua in The Hague.^[1]

On 14 December 2019, East Turkestan played a qualification match for the 2020 CONIFA World Cup against Tamil Eelam in Cergy, France, that ended with a 0–3 loss.

East Turkestan Football Association

The idea to create an East Turkestan Football Association began in 2014 before it was eventually established.^{[2] [3] [4]}

External links

• East Turkestan Football Federation website

Notes and References

1. https://thediplomat.com/2019/10/east-turkistan-west-papua-and-an-extraordinary-game-of-football/ East Turkistan, West Papua and an Extraordinary Game of Football
2. Web site: Where football meets international politics: the remarkable story of the East Turkistan Football Association. calciosovietico.it. 2022-12-23. 2021-01-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20210115135444/https://www.calciosovietico.it/2020/05/02/where-football-meets-international-politics-the-remarkable-story-of-the-east-turkistan-football-association/. dead.
3. Web site: Uyghur American Cup.
4. Web site: Oost-Turkistan wint eerste interland met grote cijfers.