Cypriot men’s football teams have participated in UEFA competitions since the 1963–64 season.
In the first few decades of participation, Cypriot teams lost by large margins.
In 2006 Ethnikos Achnas became joint winner of the UEFA Intertoto Cup 2006 with 11 other teams and In 2008, a Cypriot team, Anorthosis Famagusta FC, qualified for the group stage of a European competition for the first time.
[4] Since then, at least one Cypriot team has participated in the group stage of a European tournament every season.
The best performance was the appearance of APOEL FC in the quarter-finals of the 2011–12 UEFA Champions League.
Cyprus' UEFA coefficient at the end of the 2012–13 season was 14th, the highest the country ever achieved.
[6][7] Cypriot teams began participating in the European Cup (renamed the UEFA Champions League in 1992) in 1963.
The first team to do so was Anorthosis Famagusta FC against FK Partizan in Belgrade on 11 September 1963.
[1][2] In this competition only the Cypriot Champions have taken part, except in the 2014–15 season, when, due to Cyprus’ UEFA coefficient ranking, the country had two participants.
Anorthosis were the first team that took part in the group stage, in the 2008–09 UEFA Champions League.
The team that has progressed furthest was APOEL in the 2011–12 season, who reached the quarter-finals.
The table presents the participation of Cypriot teams in the competitions per season.
As a result of Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the three teams that qualified to European competition withdrew.
AEK was the first team that participated in the group stage at 2011–12 UEFA Europa League.
Most successful team was APOEL of 2016–17 season that qualifies and participated to round of 16.
As a result of Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the three teams that qualified to European competition withdrew.
In the middle of every football season, any Cypriot teams wanted to take part in Intertoto, declare their nomination and the one of them that finished in the highest position at Cypriot First Division qualified to Intertoto Cup.
[212][214][215][216][217] In total, Cypriot teams took part in 13 of the 14 seasons of the competition held by UEFA.
Cypriot teams have faced opponents from 49 different countries (UEFA has 55 federations members, including Cyprus); Cypriot clubs have not yet faced opponents from Andorra, Kosovo, Latvia and Liechtenstein.
1974–75 season's opponents in which Omonia, Pezoporikos and Enosis Neon Paralimni withdrew and 1986–87 season's opponent of APOEL when the club refused to participate in the second round) are not included and are not added in the column "Exclusions".