The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for
association football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...
teams that are
not affiliated with FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...
.
Competitions
Women's football
All members of CONIFA are encouraged to invest in women's football in their communities, and to create female national selections to play and compete against other CONIFA members.
CONIFA's first ever official women's football match took place on 10 November 2018 in Northern Cyprus, with
Sápmi ladies beating their
Northern Cypriot hosts 4–0 in the Women's Friendship Cup.
CONIFA announced their first
Women's World Football Cup on 31 January 2021, to be hosted by Székely Land between 23 and 30 June 2021 and involve 6 teams.
Men's
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CONIFA World Football Cup
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CONIFA European Football Cup
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CONIFA Africa Football Cup
The CONIFA Africa Football Cup is an international football tournament organized by CONIFA, an umbrella association for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA.
History
Zanzibar 2021
In February 2021, ConIFA an ...
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CONIFA South America Football Cup
The CONIFA South America Football Cup, also referred to as CONIFA Copa América, is an international football tournament organized by CONIFA, an umbrella association for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA.
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CONIFA No Limits European Championship
The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA.
Competitions
Women's football
All members of CONIFA are encouraged to i ...
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CONIFA Asian Football Cup
The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA.
Competitions
Women's football
All members of CONIFA are encouraged to inv ...
Women's
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CONIFA Women's World Football Cup
The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA.
Competitions
Women's football
All members of CONIFA are encouraged to inv ...
Futsal
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CONIFA No Limits Mediterranean Futsal Cup
The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA.
Competitions
Women's football
All members of CONIFA are encouraged to inv ...
National leagues sanctioned by CONIFA
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Liga de Balompié Mexicano
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The league is an alternate to Liga MX, which is ...
Current title holders
Members
Types of members
CONIFA expressly uses the term "members" rather than "countries" or "states". A football association may be eligible to apply for membership of CONIFA if it, or the entity (ethnic and/or linguistic minority, indigenous group, cultural organization, territory) it represents, is not a member of FIFA and satisfies one or more of the following criteria:
*The football association is a member of one of the six continental confederations of FIFA, which are:
AFC,
CAF,
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football,, ; french: Confédération de football d'Amérique du Nord, d'Amérique centrale et des Caraïbes, . Dutch uses the English name. abbreviated as CONCACAF ( ; typese ...
,
CONMEBOL
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,
OFC,
UEFA
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; french: Union des associations européennes de football; german: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs f ...
.
*The entity represented by the football association is a member of the
International Olympic Committee
The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss ...
.
*The entity represented by the football association is a member of one of the member federations of
Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations
The Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF) is a non-governmental, non-profit organisation constituted through and recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). The ARISF's members are international sports ...
(ARISF).
*The entity represented by the football association is in possession of an
ISO 3166-1
ISO 3166-1 (''Codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions – Part 1: Country codes'') is a standard defining codes for the names of countries, dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest. It ...
country code.
*The entity represented by the football association is a de facto independent territory. A territory is considered de facto independent if it meets all of the following criteria: (a) a well-defined territory; (b) a permanent population; (c) an autonomous government, and (d) diplomatic recognition by at least one of the
member states of the United Nations
The United Nations member states are the sovereign states that are members of the United Nations (UN) and have equal representation in the UN General Assembly. The UN is the world's largest intergovernmental organization.
The criteria ...
.
*The entity represented by the football association is included on the
United Nations list of non-self-governing territories
Chapter XI of the United Nations Charter defines a non-self-governing territory (NSGT) as a territory "whose people have not yet attained a full measure of self-government". In practice, an NSGT is a territory deemed by the United Nations Gener ...
.
*The entity represented by the football association is included in the directory of countries and territories of the
Travelers' Century Club
The Travelers' Century Club, or TCC, is a club for people who have visited 100 or more of the world's countries and territories.
The organization was founded in California in 1954 and now has more than 1,400 members throughout the world. The clu ...
.
*The entity represented by the football association is a member of the
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
The Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization, or simply UNPO is an international organization established to facilitate the voices of unrepresented and marginalised nations and peoples worldwide. It was formed on 11 February 1991 in The Ha ...
(UNPO) and/or the
Federal Union of European Nationalities
The Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN) is an international non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 1949 in conjunction with the formation of the Council of Europe. As of 2019, there were 103 member organizations representing ...
(FUEN).
*The entity represented by the football association is a minority included in the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, maintained and published by
Minority Rights Group International
Minority Rights Group International (MRG) is an international human rights organisation founded with the objective of working to secure rights for ethnic, national, religious, linguistic minorities and indigenous peoples around the world. Their ...
.
*The entity represented by the football association is a linguistic minority, the language of which is included on the
List of ISO 639-2 codes
ISO 639 is a set of international standards that lists short codes for language names. The following is a complete list of three-letter codes defined in part two (ISO 639-2) of the standard, including the corresponding two-letter (ISO 639-1) codes ...
.
List of members
''As of ''
Important personalities
Presidency
Vice-Presidents of ConIFA
General Secretaries
Africa President
Asian President
European President
Latin America President
North American and Caribbean President
Oceanian President
Directors of Women’s Football
See also
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Non-FIFA international football
Non-FIFA international football is the segment of international football that is not overseen by FIFA. FIFA is the international governing body of association football, overseeing football globally and with running international representative mat ...
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New Football Federations-Board
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World Unity Football Alliance
The World Unity Football Alliance (WUFA) is an international governing body for association football teams that are Non-FIFA international football, not affiliated with FIFA, similar to but smaller than the older Confederation of Independent Foot ...
– Several CONIFA members also hold membership of the WUFA.
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CONIFA World Football Cup
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CONIFA European Football Cup
References
External links
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Association football governing bodies
Sports organizations established in 2013