Cyprus Mail

What is Cyprus Mail?

Cyprus Mail is a daily news title published in English from Cyprus, with a website carrying the sections Cyprus News, Divided Island, Business & Finance, Entertainment, Education, Health, Environment, Life & Style, Legal View, Opinion, Sport, Tech & Science and World, alongside a daily newsletter and mobile applications.^[1] The site's own footer line, as retrieved on 23 September 2026, reads: “Since 1945, Cyprus Mail has been the trusted source for breaking Cyprus news and independent journalism.”^[1] That is the title's characterisation of itself and is reported here as such, not adopted.

Older material sits on a separate archive host, archive.cyprus-mail.com, which carries dated articles — for example a report published on 5 November 2013 on the arrangement signed that day in Zurich between the Cyprus Football Association and the Cyprus Turkish Football Association, naming the signatories and the witnessing FIFA and UEFA presidents.^[2]

What does Cyprus Mail cover?

Its Sport section, retrieved on 23 September 2026, carried items dated 20 to 22 September 2026 across football, basketball, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf, motorsport and swimming, mixing Cypriot subjects with international ones: a Cyprus Cricket T10 Cup fixture, plans for a new football stadium in Nicosia, an Israeli basketball club seeking a Cyprus venue for EuroLeague games, and a Cypriot NASCAR competitor, alongside Premier League results, the Nations League, the Davis Cup and the Asian Games.^[3]

The mix is the point: on the day sampled, Cyprus-specific sport was a minority of the section's items and international competition the majority.^[3] That is one day's reading of the section rather than a measured period.

The section is a general sports desk rather than a specialist title. Football, basketball and cricket items sat next to golf, motorsport and swimming on the day sampled, and Cypriot subjects were carried in the same running list as foreign ones rather than in a separate domestic section.^[3] The site also lists a daily newsletter, a weekly listings newsletter and applications on Google Play and the Apple App Store.^[1]

How large is Cyprus Mail's audience?

No audited circulation or readership figure for the title could be retrieved for this page, and no Cypriot body publishing audited press circulation was found. The measurement currency that does exist in the market is television audience measurement, run by AGB (Cyprus) Ltd from a panel of about 450 households and 981 people meters covering 1,349 persons aged 4 and over, against a stated universe of 699,350; its subscriber list is made up of advertising agencies and television stations, and it does not cover newspapers.^[4]

The title's own site publishes no circulation figure and no audience statement.^[1] Traffic estimators are not audited measurement, and no figure from one is given here. That is a limitation of the available evidence rather than of the title.

Since when has Cyprus Mail existed?

The only date available is the title's own. Its site states that it has been publishing “since 1945”, and that claim is the outlet's claim about itself; no second, independent source giving a founding year for the title was retrieved for this page.^[1]

What can be verified independently of the claim is continuity of publication over a long run: the separate archive host carries dated articles from 2013, and the live site carried items dated 20 to 22 September 2026 when it was retrieved.^[2][3]

Why does Cyprus Mail matter in Cyprus's sport?

It is the route by which Cypriot sport is reported in English, which is what makes its archive usable on governing-body questions: its 5 November 2013 report of the Zurich arrangement names Costakis Koutsokoumnis and Hasan Sertoğlu as signatories and Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini as witnesses, and states that under the arrangement the CTFA will become a member of the CFA in accordance with CFA statutes and regulations.^[2]

On the market it publishes into, the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom's Media Pluralism Monitor for Cyprus, 2026 edition, states that “there is a high concentration in the market share of service providers in the audio-visual and the press, which is affecting plurality of information resources”, and scores Market Plurality at 91 per cent against an overall risk score of 68 per cent.^[5] Reporters Without Borders places Cyprus 80th of 180 in its 2026 Press Freedom Index with a score of 56.91, and opens its Cyprus entry: “Although freedom of the press is guaranteed by the constitution, the government, the Orthodox Church and business interests have significant influence over the media in Cyprus.”^[6] Both bodies are quoted here and neither is adopted.