Aviation Football Cup
Cyprus 2025
Date: 24th-27th April, 2025.
Place: Ayia Napa (Cyprus).
Registration Deadline: 15th March, 2025.
Payment Deadline: 20th March, 2025.
Ayia Napa (Cyprus)
Is a tourist resort at the far eastern end of the southern coast of Cyprus.
Ayia Napa lies near Cape Greco at the eastern part of Cyprus, south of Famagusta. It is a town of the Famagusta District, in the southern part of the district.
Ayia Napa is about 40 kilometres from Larnaca International Airport.
Weather
In April the average daily maximum is 21ºC and the average daily minimum is 13ºC.
Location
Ayia Napa is located 40 Km from Larnaca International Airport.
Program
Thursday, 24 APRIL 2025
Arrival at Larnaca Airport (LCA)
Transfer to the hotel
Free Time
19:30 - 20:00 » Captain’s Meeting + Competition Draw
20:00 - 21:30 » Dinner at the hotel
Friday, 25 APRIL 2025
07:00 - 08:30 » Breakfast at the hotel
09:00 - 12:00 » Games
12:00 - 14:00 » Lunch Break
14:00 - 18:00 » Games
18:00 » Free time
Saturday, 26 APRIL 2025
07:00 - 08:30 » Breakfast at the hotels
09:00 - 12:30 » Final Phase Matches
12:30 - 14:00 » Lunch Break
14:00 - 16:00 » Final Phase Matches
16:00 - 20:00 » Free time
20:00 - 21:30 » Farewell Dinner + Awards Ceremony
Sunday, 27 APRIL 2025
07:00 - 09:00 » Breakfast
Transfers to Larnaca Airport (LCA) all day
Accommodation
Melpo Antia Hotel & Suites
Located in the vibrant heart of Ayia Napa, a short stroll from the harbour and the nightlife, Melpo Antia Hotel offer a relaxing base close to the action.
Melpo Antia Hotel is conveniently situated to make the most of everything Ayia Napa has to offer.
The spacious apartments offer a separate bedroom and living area and a well-equipped kitchenette.
The spacious outdoor pool area offers an ideal place to relax and soak up the sun. Enjoy a refreshing dip in the pool or in the soothing hot tub.
Melpo Antia Hotel also features regular live entertainment shows and theme nights. Just 500 metres from the hotel, discover Ayia Napa’s historic harbour, stroll around the shops or dance the night away at one of the town’s famous clubs.
Melpo Antia Hotel is located approx 2 Km (30 min walk) from the football fields
(per team)
TEAM FEE
Includes:
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Registration
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Staff & Referees
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Football Pitches
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Cups & Trophies
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1 Ball
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Sports bag
Packages/ Prices
250€ (elite cup)
200€ (friendly cup)
PACKAGES
(per person)
* Prices per person for players, staff and guests from 24 to 27 April 2025.
Prices only include bus transfers for groups with +9 people on 24 & 27 April.
Transfers for small groups (up to 8 people), individual transfers and/or outside the official dates (24 & 27 April) are not included in this price and may have additional costs or may not be provided.
** Extra-nights upon request
Info
How to get
Larnaca International Airport (LCA) is the closest international airport serving the city of Ayia Napa.
Some of the airlines that perform flights to/from the Larnaca International Airport:
Aegean Airlines
Air Baltic
Air Haifa
Air Serbia
Arkia Israeli Airlines
Austrian Airlines
British Airways
Bulgaria Air
Buzz
Chair Airlines Ag
Condor
Cyprus Airways
Easyjet
Easyjet Europe Airlines
Edelweiss Air Ag
Egypt Air
El Al Israel Airlines
Emirates Airlines
Enter Air
Eurowings
Flyone
Gulf Air
Helvetic Airways
Israir Airlines
Jazeera Airways
Jet Time
Jet2.Com
LOT
Lufthansa
Middle East Airlines
Norwegian Air
Olympic Airways
Qatar Airways
Royal Jordanian
Ryanair
Scandinavian Airlines - SAS
Sky Express Airline
Smartwings
Sunclass Airlines
Swiss
Transavia Airlines
Tui Airways
Tui Fly Nordic
Tuifly
Tus Airways
Vueling Airlines
Wizz Air
Wizz Air Uk
Allowance
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This tournament is open to all football amateur teams related with aviation business (Airlines, Airports, ATC - Air Traffic Controllers, Handling, Cargo, Catering, Travel Agencies - Sales Agents, Partners / Suppliers or others).
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All players must be aviation employees (or former employees), however each team is allowed to bring up to 2 players outside aviation (but non professional football players).
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During the registration process, the organizational committee can ask teams to present Company ID Cards confirming that the players belong to the aviation business or that are not professional football players.
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Non-aviation amateur teams are allowed to participate.
The organization can provide wild cards and this decision should be taken by the organizers.
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Teams can apply unlimited players, staff or guests.
Competition
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Categorie
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Men
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Format
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7-a-side football
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Division (*)
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Elite Cup » + 18 years old
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Friendly Cup » + 18 years old
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Friendly Cup » + 40 years old
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(*)
Elite Cup
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Teams that want to play against the strongest teams and the main purpose to participate is to win the competition.
Friendly Cup (1)
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Teams that just want to have fun, make new friends and play football no matter what the final score in each game will be.
(1)
- In the Friendly Cup there is no individual awards (Best Player, Goalkeeper and Scorer) and the teams only receive participation cups.
- No points will be awarded for the AFC Ranking.
Packages
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To participate at this tournament the organization provides 4 packages:
- Executive package;
- Economy package;
- Basic package;
- Low-cost package.
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To apply, participants must accept all the services included in each package.
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Other packages with less services WILL NOT be provided to participants. More services can be included in each package with extra costs.
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To be part of the tournament, the packages must be requested to the organizational committee.
Anyone who doesn't book a package with the organizational committee will not be considered as a participant at AFC and cannot be part of a team.
Payments
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The captain / manager of each team is responsible to collect the money from the whole team and make the payment of the packages, by bank transfer, to the organizational committee.
Individual payments by bank transfer are not accepted.
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We have limited availability for each package and also limited rooms available at each hotel.
For this reason, we will give priority to teams that send us full payments on time on a "first come, first served" basis.
On the other hand for teams that do not make full payments or payment is made after the deadline, we can not guarantee them the requested package or even a spot in our tournament.
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The package price can increase up to 100 € if payments are not made before the payment deadline.
Registration Deadline:
15th March 2025
Payment Deadline:
Team fee: With the registration form
Packages: 20th March 2025
Deadlines for cancellation and no-shows
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Team fee is non-refundable
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Until 15th March 2024 - 100 % package refund;
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Between 16th March and 20th March 2025 - 50 % package refund
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After 21st March 2025 - Package will not be refunded.
Football Games
Our tournament will be played at Ayia Napa Municipal Complex on 4 natural (7-a-side) pitches.
Cancellation of the competition / tournament
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To allow the organizing committee (O.C.) to organize the competition at AFC Cyprus, a minimum of 6 teams must participate in each Division (Elite and Friendly). If there are less than 6 teams in one of the divisions, the O.C. reserves the right to aggregate both divisions into one to prevent any team not having a competition to play in.
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At the Friendly Cup, the O.C. reserves the right to aggregate both categories (+18 and +40) in just one to prevent the Friendly Cup competition from taking place.
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AFC Cyprus can be cancelled if less than 8 teams are registered in all divisions.
General Competition Rules
Please download the general competition rules in PDF here.
Image rights
Photographs and/or video will be taken in this event. By taking part on it you grant the organizing committe full rights to use the images resulting from the photography/video filming, and any reproductions or adaptations of the images for fundraising, publicity or other purposes. This might include (but is not limited to), the right to use them in our printed and online publicity, social media, press releases and funding applications.
For any doubts please contact our photo/video staff.