List of men's national association football teams

This is a list of the men's national football (soccer) teams in the world.

Current FIFA affiliates

Map of the World with the six confederations.

There are currently 208 men's national football teams affiliated to the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the world's football governing body, through their national football associations. They are eligible to enter the FIFA World Cup and matches between them are recognized as official international matches. Based on their match results over the previous four-year period, the FIFA World Rankings, published monthly by FIFA, compare the relative strengths of the national teams.

Each of these national teams is also affiliated to one of the six confederations, according to their continental zones:

• Asia - Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
• Africa - Confédération Africaine de Football (CAF)
• North and Central America and the Caribbean - Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
• South America - Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol (CONMEBOL)
• Oceania - Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
• Europe - Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

Below is a list of the national football teams by their confederations. Some national teams are full members of their confederation, but do not have membership of FIFA; these are listed with a note explaining this. There are also notes of teams who have left one confederation to join another.

AFC (Asia)

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1: Formerly member of OFC (Joined AFC in 2006)
2: Official name of the national team of the Republic of China (Taiwan); OFC member 1975-1989

CAF (Africa)

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1: Associate member of CAF but not FIFA member

CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean)

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1: Full CONCACAF member but not FIFA member

CONMEBOL (South America)

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OFC (Oceania)

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1: Associate member of OFC but not FIFA member

2: Official Football Team Name of French Polynesia from 1970

UEFA (Europe)

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1: Formerly member of AFC (OFC 1972-1994; Joined UEFA in 1994)
2: Formerly member of AFC (Joined UEFA in 2002)

Former national football teams

These national teams no longer exist due to the dissolution of the nation they represented.

Czechoslovakia

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Dissolved in 1993 into the independent nations of Template:CZEf and Template:SVKf.

FIFA recognizes Template:CZEf as the successor of the Czechoslovakia national team and attributes its records to it.

Between 1918 and 1920 played international matches as Bohemia ; between 1939 and 1945 as Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ; and in 1993 as Czech And Slovak Republic.

French Equatorial Africa

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Dissolved in 1960 into the four independent nations of Template:CGOf, Template:GABf, Template:CTAf, Template:CHAf.

FIFA recognizes Template:CGOf as the successor of the French Equatorial Africa national team and attributes its records to it.

French West Africa

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Dissolved in 1960 into the nine independent nations of Template:MLIf, Template:SENf, Template:MTNf, Template:GUIf, Template:BFAf, Template:BENf, Template:TOGf, Template:CIVf, Template:NIGf.

FIFA recognizes Template:MLIf as the sussessor of the French West Africa national team and attributes its records to it.

Germany

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Merged in October 1990 to form the unified national team of Template:GERf.

FIFA recognizes Template:GERf as the successor of the West Germany national team and attributes their records to it.

Template:GERf was the official name until 1949 when it became Template:FRGf.

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Reintegrated in 1957 into Template:FRGf.

Ireland

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Dissolved in 1922 into Template:NIRf and Template:IRLf.

FIFA recognizes Template:NIRf as the successor of Template:IREf and attributes its record to it.

Between 1922 and 1937 Template:IRLf played international matches as Irish Free State.

Korea

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Dissolved in 1945 into two independent nations Template:KORf and Template:PRKf.

FIFA recognizes Template:KORf as the successor of Template:KORuf and attributes its records to it.

Netherlands Antilles

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Reintegrated in 1954 into Template:ANTf.

USSR

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Template:ESTf,Template:LVAf and Template:LTUf had already seceded from the Soviet Union and had formed national teams before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992 into 12 independent nations, which played as Template:CISf in 1992, and subsequently launched their own national sides:

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FIFA recognizes Template:RUSf as the successor of the CIS, which was itself the successor of the USSR national team, and attributes the records of these two previous entities to it.

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Vietnam

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Merged in 1976 to form the unified national team of Template:VIEf.

FIFA recognizes Template:VIEf as the successor of the North Vietnam national team and attributes its records to it.

Yemen

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Merged in 1990 to form the unified national team of Template:YEMf.

FIFA recognizes Template:YEMf as the successor of the North Yemen national team and attributes its records to it.

Yugoslavia

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Dissolved in 1992 into 5 independent nations:

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Dissolved in 2006 into the independent nations of Template:SRBf and Template:MONf

FIFA recognizes Template:SERf (and its predecessors Template:YUGfscg and Template:SCGf) as the successor of the Yugoslavia SFR team and attributes its records to it.

New names

In addition to the unification or dissolution of nations, other nations have been renamed:

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• Template:BINf became Template:INDf in 1947
• Template:PLEf became Template:ISRf in 1948
• Template:DEIf became Template:IDNf in 1949
• Template:GOCf became Template:GHAf in 1957
• Template:EGYfkofe became Template:UARf in 1958, then became Template:EGYf in 1972
• Template:TOGfold became Template:TOGf in 1960
• Template:TAAf became Template:TANf in 1962
• Template:NRHf became Template:ZAMf in 1964
• Template:SRHf became Template:RHOf in 1964, then became Template:ZRHf in 1979, and then Template:ZIMf in 1980
• Template:NYAf became Template:MAWf in 1966
• Spanish Guinea became Template:EQGf in 1968
• Template:BECf became Template:CLPf in 1960 then became Template:CKNf1963 in 1963, and then Template:ZAIf in 1971, and then became Template:CODf in 1997
• Template:BGUf became Template:GUYf in 1966
• Template:CEYf became Template:SRIf in 1972
• Template:DAHf became Template:BENf in 1975
• Template:NGYf became Template:SURf in 1975
• Portuguese Guinea became Template:GNBf in 1975
• Template:CAFf became Template:CTAfempire in 1976, then became Template:CTAf in 1979
• Template:HEBf became Template:VANf in 1980
• Template:BHOf became Template:BLZf in 1981
• Template:UPVf became Template:BFAf in 1984
• Template:WSMf became Template:SAMf in 1996
• Template:SIAf became Template:THAf in 1939
• Template:COBf -Brazzeville became Template:CGOf in 1992
• Template:MAYf became Template:MASf in 1963
• Template:CAMfold became Template:KHMf in 1975, then Template:CAMf in 1979
• Template:MYAfold became Template:MYAf in 1989
• Template:DJIfold became Template:DJIf in 1977
• Template:MADf1967 became Template:MADf in 1975
• Template:IVCf became Template:CIVf in 1983

Teams not affiliated to FIFA

These national teams are not affiliated to FIFA or their local confederation. Because their national associations are not FIFA members, they are ineligible to enter the FIFA World Cup, and their matches are not recognized as official. Some of these teams are affiliated to the NF-Board.

Associate members

These teams represent sovereign nations or territories: they have full, associate or provisional membership of their local confederations, but are not members of FIFA:

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1: Associate member of OFC
2: Associate member of CAF
3: Full member of CONCACAF

NF-Board

These teams are full or provisional members of the NF-Board, an organisation to promote international football among sovereign nations, unrecognised nations, regions and stateless peoples that are not members of FIFA, and to assist in their possible future membership of FIFA.

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Currently unaffiliated sovereign nations

These sovereign nations are not members of either FIFA or the NF-Board, or of their local confederation:

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Teams of non-sovereign or unrecognized nations

This is a list of regional representative teams, unrecognised nations, dependencies and stateless peoples. Because of their status, it is unlikely that they would ever gain FIFA membership. However, the precedent of the five CONCACAF teams not affiliated to FIFA suggests that joining their local confederation may be less of a difficulty. There may also the possibility of joining an organisation such as the NF-Board. This is an incomplete list, and teams may be inactive.

Australia: Australian Indigenous People Christmas Island Cocos Islands Norfolk Island Tasmania France: Brittany Corsica Mayotte, o. d. Saint-Pierre and Miquelon, o. d. Wallis and Futuna, o. d. Portugal: Azores File:MadeiraFlag.svg Madeira Scandinavia: Åland Islands, Finland Bornholm, Denmark Frøya, Norway Gotland, Sweden Hitra, Norway Öland, Sweden Spain: Basque Country Canary Islands Catalonia Andalucia Aragon Asturias Balearic Islands Cantabria Castille La Mancha File:Flag of Ceuta.svg Ceuta Castille and Leon Galicia Melilla Region of Murcia Navarre File:Flag of Valencia Autonomo community.png Valencian Community

UK & Dependencies: United Kingdom Alderney File:Flag of Anglesey.jpg Anglesey/Ynys Mon Cornwall Falkland Islands, o. t. Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Isle of Wight Jersey Orkney Sark Saint Helena Shetland File:Western isles.gif Western Isles Asia: File:Flag of Guangxi Zhuang.gif Guangxi, China Jammu and Kashmir, India-Pakistan Kurdistan Nagaland, India Sikkim, India Fujairah, UAE Africa: Cabinda, Angola Caprivi, Namibia Southern Sudan, Sudan Oceania: Tokelau, New Zealand File:FM-truk.gif Chuuk, Micronesia File:FM-yap.gif Yap, Micronesia File:FM-ponah.gif Pohnpei, Micronesia File:Flag of Banaba.gif Banaba, Kiribati Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Rotuma, Fiji

Caribbean and South America: Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles Juan Fernandez, Chile Nevis, St. Kitts & Nevis Saint Kitts, St. Kitts & Nevis San Andrés and Providencia, Colombia Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands Saint Thomas, US Virgin Islands File:Flag of Tobago.gif Tobago, Trinidad/Tobago Tortola, UK Virgin Islands Virgin Gorda, UK Virgin Islands Europe: Crimea, Ukraine Gǎgǎuzia, Moldova Kosovo, Serbia Padania, Italy Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina Saaremaa, Estonia Silesia, Poland Vojvodina, Serbia Abkhazia, Georgia Mountainous Karabakh, Armenia Lusatia, Germany Tatarstan, Russia Tuva, Russia Kalmykia, Russia North America: Navajo Nation PEI, Canada Quebec, Canada File:Saint-Barthélémy.PNG Saint-Barthélémy

See also

• National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup
• List of FIFA country codes
• List of women's national football teams
• NF-Board

Sources

• List of associations, at FIFA's site