The Book of Mappa – The 2025/26 Cyprus Football Season: Chaos, Controversy and Champions

If you’re looking for a book about Cyprus football, you’ve found it.

The Book of Mappa is an 830+ page deep dive into the world of Cyprus football, covering every major story from the 2025/26 Cypriot football season. From title races and cup finals to financial crises, ownership battles, transfer sagas and political infighting, this is the story of a football league that consistently proves reality can be stranger than fiction.

Covering the Cyprus First Division, the Cyprus Cup, European football campaigns and the major events that shaped the game across the island, The Book of Mappa follows the fortunes of clubs including Omonia, APOEL, Pafos FC, Aris Limassol, AEK Larnaca, Apollon Limassol and Anorthosis Famagusta. It examines not only what happened on the pitch, but also the people, decisions and controversies that influenced Cypriot football behind the scenes.

This is a book about Cyprus football ownership, football finance, football governance, football politics and the growing influence of foreign investment in the Cypriot game. It explores the challenges facing football clubs in Cyprus, the battle for sustainability, the pursuit of European football and the constant struggle between sporting ambition and financial reality.

Alongside the football itself are stories that would seem far-fetched in any other league. Allegations of corruption, match-fixing controversies, extraordinary disciplinary decisions, boardroom disputes, fan unrest, legal battles and some truly baffling rulings from the Sports Judge all feature heavily. The book also examines one of the darkest events to impact Cyprus football in recent years: the assassination of a club president, and the questions it continues to raise about the sport and those who operate within it.

Written in a style that combines football journalism, investigative reporting, analysis and satire, The Book of Mappa is both a record of a remarkable season and a wider examination of modern football in Cyprus. It is a story about champions and challengers, owners and supporters, success and failure, dreams and debt. Above all, it is the story of Cyprus football in all its brilliance, dysfunction, passion and unpredictability.

Whether you are a supporter of Cypriot football, a follower of European football, a student of sports business, or simply someone fascinated by the intersection of sport, money and power, this book offers an unprecedented look inside one of Europe’s most compelling football leagues.

The complete digital edition of The Book of Mappa is available to download as a PDF through our Patreon for £15.

Some football leagues produce champions.

Cyprus football produced enough material for a satire. The fact none of it had to be invented is perhaps the most worrying part.

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