The CONIFA Women's World Football Cup is an international football tournament organized by

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, an umbrella association for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA, which has been held every two years since 2022.

Hosting

CONIFA is an organisation that provides an outlet for countries, sub-national entities, stateless peoples and

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to play international football. Because a number of their members represent

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s or displaced peoples, it is not always possible for the host of the World Football Cup to be able to hold the competition in their own "territory". As a consequence of this, CONIFA defines the "host" of the World Football Cup as being the member association that heads the organising committee, whether or not the tournament is actually played in the geographical area that the host association represents.

Editions

Tibet 2022

The first edition of the CONIFA Women's World Cup was held in Tibet region of India in 2022. 4 teams were intitaly planned to participate. However, Matabeleland reported issues with visas to participate, but no reason was given for Székely Land's withdrawal. Leaving

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and

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that actually participated. The tournament was held in a two-legged format in early July.

won the competition and the first title.

Sápmi 2024

The second edition was held in Bodø in

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. The competition saw three teams participating in a double round-robin format.

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and

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. After initially being announced as participants,

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and

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later withdrew from the competition with no official reason given.

would also be removed from the tournament on the opening day after the team was unable to secure visa to travel aboard on time. These withdrawals would result in the tournament being reduced from the originally announced 6 participants to 3.

Results

;Notes

Appearances

; Legend * — Champions * — Runners-up * — Third Place * — Hosts * • — Did not participate For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

References

{{International Non-FIFA tournaments Non-FIFA football competitions Confederation of Independent Football Associations World championships in association football Biennial sporting events Recurring sporting events established in 2022