application/target/application/WEB-INF/faces-config.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<faces-config xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-facesconfig_2_0.xsd"
	version="2.0">

	<lifecycle>
		<phase-listener>example.mysports.web.jsf.MySportsPhaseListener</phase-listener>
	</lifecycle>

</faces-config>