Footy 9s is an exciting new sport that is coming to Europe!
Footy 9s is played on rectangular fields, allowing the sport to be played on any soccer or rugby field.
There are 3 great formats to choose from – Men’s Footy, Women’s Footy and Touch Footy.
Get Involved
If you are keen to be involved with the development of the sport in Cyprus, we would love to hear from you. Please contact us via info@aflinternational.com.
AUSTRALIA & CYPRUS
The earliest known Greek Cypriot migrants arrived in Australia in the 1850s, attracted by the gold rushes. They settled in the goldfield townships of Ballarat and Daylesford in Victoria.
Following the ceding of Cyprus by the Ottoman Empire to the United Kingdom in 1878, more Cypriots arrived, mostly as crewmen in British ships. By the 1890s, Greek Cypriot shopkeepers had established businesses in Melbourne and Sydney. The Australian Census of 1933 recorded 500 Cyprus-born people, all of them Greek Cypriots.
Cypriots in Australia are the second-largest community outside Cyprus. They are found throughout the country, with a presence in all state capitals.
Resident Australian population born in Cyprus (2016 census) – 16,936
Australian residents of Cypriot descent (2016 census) – 19,146
AFL PLAYERS
Andrew Demetriou | Jimmy Toumpas
Cyprus is the third largest island in the Mediterranean (after the Italian islands of Sicily and Sardinia) and the world’s 81st largest. It measures 240 km long from end to end and 100 km wide at its widest point, with Turkey 75 km to the north.
Other neighbouring territories include Syria and Lebanon to the east (105 km and 108 km, respectively), Israel 200 km to the southeast, Egypt 380 km to the south, and Greece to the northwest: 280 km to the small Dodecanesian island of Kastellórizo (Meyísti), 400 km to Rhodes, and 800 km to the Greek mainland.
The Cyprus Republic has de jure sovereignty over the island of Cyprus. However, the Republic of Cyprus is de facto partitioned into two main parts; the area under the effective control of the Republic, comprising about 59% of the island’s area, and the north, administered by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which is recognised only by Turkey, covering about 37% of the island’s area.
