🇲🇩 Cupa Moldovei: TV channel, kick-off times and live streaming in the UK

The Cupa Moldovei is Moldova's national cup, and a feature of the map imposes itself from the outset: the country's most decorated club is based in Transnistria, a region that does not recognise itself in the Moldovan state and has administered its own territory since the early 1990s. It nonetheless plays in Moldova's league and cup, and it is through this country that it reaches European competition. The bracket therefore brings together clubs separated by a border that football ignores. Beyond that, this is the cup of a small country: the early rounds put a handful of ties in play, kicking off in the early afternoon, local time, in front of a few hundred people. The winner takes a European place, which remains, for a mid-sized club, the shortest route to a continental night.