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{{Infobox football tournament
| name                 = Ethlorek Cup 
| image                = File:Cup.jpg
| caption              = The Ethlorek Cup
| founded              = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1976}}
| number of teams      = 10
| region               = [[Trellinese Empire]]
| current champions    = {{nowrap|{{fb|Arimathea}} (3rd title)}}
| most successful team = {{nowrap|{{fb|Cadenza}} (4 titles)}}
| website              = 
| current              = 
}}

The '''Ethlorek Cup''' ([[Trellinese language|Trellinese]]: ''Lekürn Ethlorek'') is the main [[wikipedia:association football|association football]] tournament organised by the Ethlorek Football Federation. It is contested every four years by the senior men's national football teams from the Ethlorek nations and partner nations of the [[Ethlorek Community]], under whose aegis the tournament is run. As of 2024, the competing nations are [[Aquitayne]], [[Arimathea]], [[Azmir]], [[Berique]], [[Cadenza]], [[Étlaurlande]], [[Fyngaria]], [[Hysera]], [[Isles of Velar]], [[Kur'zhet]], [[Trellin]] and [[Txekrikar]].

The most successful team in the competition's history is the [[Cadenza national football team]], which has won it on four occasions — 1984, 1988, 2000 and 2016 — and been runners-up on four further occasions. The current champions are Arimathea, who won the tournament for the third time in 2020.

==History==
The Ethlorek Cup was first contested in 1976 by eight national teams from within the Trellinese Empire. Hosted by Trellin, on this occasion it was won by Arimathea, who were then hosts to the next tournament, which was won by Trellin. This system of having the winner host continued until Cadenza's two-in-a-row in 1984 and 1988. Complaints had been lodged by several teams after the 1982 [[Astyrian Cup of Nations|Astyrian Cup]] and during the 1988 Ethlorek Cup that the grounds in Cadenza were inadequate: one pitch was too small for a regulation football match, and matches arranged for it in 1988 had to be held elsewhere. Trellin therefore was assigned host duties for the 1992 Ethlorek Cup, and the hosting system was replaced with a bidding process.

The 1996 tournament saw it expanded to ten teams, with the addition of [[Berique]] and [[Étlaurlande]]. [[Aquitayne]] and [[Fyngaria]] joined the competition from 2024.

==Format==

==Results==
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 90%; text-align: center; width: 100%;"
|-
!rowspan="2" width="5%"|Year
!rowspan="2" width="10%"|Host
|width="1%" rowspan=19 style="background-color:#ffffff;border-top-style:hidden;border-bottom-style:hidden;"|
!colspan="3"|Final
|width="1%" rowspan=19 style="background-color:#ffffff;border-top-style:hidden;border-bottom-style:hidden;"|
!rowspan="2" width="4%"|Number of teams
|-
!width="14%"|Winners
!width="10%"|Score and Venue
!width="14%"|Runners-up
|-
|1976
|align=left| {{flag|Trellin}}
|'''{{fb|Arimathea}}'''
|'''2–1''' <br /><small>Emla Spires Stadium, [[Bara ti'Emla]]</small>
|{{fb|Trellin}}
|8
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1980
|align=left| {{flag|Arimathea}}
|'''{{fb|Trellin}}'''
|'''4–3''' <br /><small>Kaedroth Park, [[Arimathea (city)|Arimathea]]</small>
|{{fb|Txekrikar}}
|8
|-
|1984
|align=left| {{flag|Trellin}}
|'''{{fb|Cadenza}}'''
|'''3–1''' <br /><small>Kresaaz Stadium, [[Martheqa]]</small>
|{{fb|Arimathea}}
|8
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1988
|align=left| {{flag|Cadenza}}
|'''{{fb|Cadenza}}'''
|'''2–1''' {{aet}} <br /><small>Cadenza City Stadium, [[Cadenza (city)|Cadenza]]</small>
|{{fb|Arimathea}}
|8
|-
|1992
|align=left| {{flag|Trellin}}
|'''{{fb|Txekrikar}}'''
|'''2–1''' {{aet}} <br /><small>Kresaaz Stadium, [[Martheqa]]</small>
|{{fb|Isles of Velar}}
|8
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|1996
|align=left| {{flag|Isles of Velar}}
|'''{{fb|Hysera}}'''
|'''2–2''' {{aet}}<br /> {{pso|3–2}} <br /><small>Azinto Salakon Stadium, [[Txir]]</small>
|{{fb|Txekrikar}}
|10
|-
|2000
|align=left| {{flag|Txekrikar}}
|'''{{fb|Cadenza}}'''
|'''5–2''' <br /><small>Beshas Park, [[Onostada]]</small>
|{{fb|Azmir}}
|10
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|[[2004 Ethlorek Cup|2004]]
|align=left| {{flag|Trellin}}
|'''{{fb|Berique}}'''
|'''1–0''' <br /><small>Weavery Stadium, [[Zarthalin]]</small>
|{{fb|Cadenza}}
|10
|-
|2008
|align=left| {{flag|Hysera}}
|'''{{fb|Trellin}}'''
|'''2–1''' <br /><small>Pamareza, [[Hyser]]</small>
|{{fb|Cadenza}}
|10
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2012
|align=left| {{flag|Trellin}}
|'''{{fb|Arimathea}}'''
|'''2–0''' <br /><small>Kresaaz Stadium, [[Martheqa]]</small>
|{{fb|Berique}}
|10
|-
|2016
|align=left| {{flag|Arimathea}}
|'''{{fb|Cadenza}}'''
|'''3–1''' <br /><small>Kaedroth Park, [[Arimathea (city)|Arimathea]]</small>
|{{fb|Trellin}}
|10
|-style="background: #D0E6FF;"
|2020
|align=left| {{flag|Arimathea}}
|'''{{fb|Arimathea}}'''
|'''1–1''' {{aet}}<br />{{pso|4–2}} <br /><small>Kaedroth Park, [[Arimathea (city)|Arimathea]]</small>
|{{fb|Cadenza}}
|10
|}

==Summary==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
!Team
!Winners
!Runners-up
|-
| style="background:#fff68f" |{{fb|Cadenza}}
| style="background:#fff68f" |4 (1984, 1988, 2000, 2016)
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |4 (1992, 2004, 2008, 2020)
|-
| style="background:#fff68f" |{{fb|Arimathea}}
| style="background:#fff68f" |3 (1976, 2012, 2020)
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |2 (1984, 1988)
|-
| style="background:#fff68f" |{{fb|Trellin}}
| style="background:#fff68f" |2 (1980, 2008)
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |2 (1976, 2016)
|-
| style="background:#fff68f" |{{fb|Txekrikar}}
| style="background:#fff68f" |1 (1992)
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |2 (1980, 1996)
|-
| style="background:#fff68f" |{{fb|Berique}}
| style="background:#fff68f" |1 (2004)
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |1 (2012)
|-
| style="background:#fff68f" |{{fb|Hysera}}
| style="background:#fff68f" |1 (1996)
| {{Sdash}}
|-
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |{{fb|Isles of Velar}}
|{{Sdash}}
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |1 (1992)
|-
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |{{fb|Azmir}}
|{{Sdash}}
| style="background:#C0C0C0" |1 (2000)
|}


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