Cypriot football clubs in European competitions Cypriot football clubs in European competitions Cypriots men football teams have participated in UEFA competitions since season 1963-64. Before that, Cyprus Football Association joined UEFA in 1962. Cypriot teams have participated in four European competitions: European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League, UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Intertoto Cup. Altogether, 16 different clubs participated at least in one European competition. The first decades the Cypriot teams loses with high scores. Then, they improve their results. They were qualifying over stronger teams. At 2008, a Cypriot team, Anorthosis Famagusta FC, qualified for the first time to the group stage
2011–12 Anorthosis Famagusta F.C. season made it 1–1 and gave to Anorthosis the 1 point. At Match day 3 Anorthosis went to Tasos Markou to play against Enosis Paralimni on September 17. Anorthosis players found their way to the nets on the 69th minute with the goal of Bojan Markovski after a smart kickoff of Marko Andić from the left side. Players of Anorthosis lost many opportunities to score another goal after the red card which Kiassos received. In the final stages of the match threatened to take up the equalizer causing the murmur of the fans and complaints about the fairness of the victory