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The KTFF Süper Lig (English: CTFA Super League), officially the AKSA Süper Lig for sponsorship reasons, formerly known as the Birinci Lig (literally First League), is the top football league in Northern Cyprus. The league was founded in 1955 and is currently contested by 16 teams. At the end of the season, the bottom two clubs are relegated ...
The Turkish Cypriot football system is divided into the following leagues. 1 KTFF Süper Lig 16 teams: ... Promotion and relegation can occur through every league ...
The Cyprus Turkish Football Association (Turkish: Kıbrıs Türk Futbol Federasyonu, KTFF) is the governing body of football in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC). Established on 29 October 1955, during British colonial rule in Cyprus , it was affiliated with the N.F.-Board from 2003 until the board's dissolution in 2013.
A Turkish Cypriot family who migrated to Turkey in 1935. The first mass migration of Turkish Cypriots to Turkey occurred in 1878 when the Ottoman Empire leased Cyprus to Great Britain. The flow of Turkish Cypriot emigration to Turkey continued in the aftermath of the First World War, and gained its greatest velocity in the mid-1920s. Economic ...
“Around 300,000 Turkish Cypriots live in the UK, and 15,000 British expats live in Northern Cyprus. The onerous and unnecessary flight rules only create a cruel burden for those wishing to visit ...
Highest level: The highest level of the Cypriot football league system in which the club has ever participated. Notes: 1 The refugee clubs location (clubs which before 1974 were located in the areas that are occupied by the Turkish army after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus) is indicated as it was before 1974.
Greek Cypriot teams were relegated every season from the Alpha Ethniki, apart from 1973–74, when APOEL managed to remain in the Greek Championship, which meant that Cyprus would have two teams in Greek top tier. However, due to the Turkish invasion of Cyprus that year, APOEL and Omonia (the 1973–74 Cypriot champions) withdrew from the League.
Turkish Cypriot bulldozers had moved U.N. trucks, cement bollards and barbed wire in the United Nations-administered buffer zone splitting the island. UN peacekeepers hurt in Cyprus buffer zone ...