Ellan Vannin football team at The Bowl in Douglas. Ellan Vannin won their first international 10–0. Ellan Vannin were invited to participate in the first ConIFA World Football Cup in Sápmi, in 2014. Despite being a previously unknown quantity, they reached the final of the inaugural tournament, losing on penalties to County of Nice despite winning 4–2 over them in the Group Stage thanks to a Calum Morrissey hattrick. While the Isle of Man were originally set to host the 2015 ConIFA European Football Cup in June 2015, logistical problems eventually led to the tournament being moved to Székely Land. Here, despite defeat to
The Known Lands Lands was begun by two "Dungeons & Dragons" roleplayers who met at university. Their goal was to create a persistent world in "Neverwinter Nights 2" which was as close as possible to pen-and-paper style roleplaying. This is accomplished by grouping characters into parties, which participate in weekly sessions run by a dungeon master (DM). According to sages, the collection of islands, called by their inhabitants simply The Known Lands, is in its Third Age of existence. In the three thousand years since whatever cataclysmic event destroyed the Second Age – a time period whose knowledge is all but lost –