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| Nickname | Franken-Elf (Franken 11) | |
|---|---|---|
| Association | Franconian Football Association[1][2] | |
| Confederation | ConIFA | |
| Head coach | Rudi Schiebel | |
| Home stadium | Lohr am Main | |
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| First international | ||
 Franconia 4–2Raetia  (Lohr am Main; 29 May 2014) | ||
| Biggest win | ||
| Franconia 4–2Raetia (Lohr am Main; 29 May 2014) | ||
| Biggest defeat | ||
| Raetia 6–0Franconia (Chur; 6 September 2015) | ||
| CONIFA European Football Cup | ||
| Appearances | 0 | |
TheFranconia football team, also calledFranken 11,[3] is a team representing the people ofFranconia, located in south-centralGermany.[4][5][6]
The team was founded in 2014 by Rudi Schiebel. They played their first game againstRaetia on 29 May 2014; this game was opposed by theBavarian Football Association as it claimed to be exclusively responsible for organizing any "selected teams".[7]
They entered the2015 ConIFA European Football Cup but later withdrew. Franconia also took part in the2016 ConIFA World Football Cup qualification but failed to make it through to the finals.
Helmuth Weisensel, 51 years old, doesn't feel represented in his Franconian identity by either one of the two professional clubs in that region, which is why he has been working on forming a Franconian national team for almost a year now. Together with the separatist Franconian Union, he founded the Franconian Football Association and then asked the Bavarian Football Association if they could help him to organize a friendly match. Surprisingly they agreed to this idea but only under the condition that they would organize it themselves because they didn' want to acknowledge his FFA.
Es gibt zwar jetzt schon den Fränkischen Fußball-Bund, wir sind da zu dritt. Aber den haben wir nur für den Fall gegründet, sollten wir selbst mal bei einer WM mitmachen. Auf dem Papier quasi.[There's already the Franconian Football Association, and there are three of us in it. But we only founded it in case we should ever participate in a World Cup ourselves. On paper, so to speak.]
