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This is a list of the men's national association football 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:

In addition, 22 Arab nations in Africa and Asia belong to the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) in addition to their own regional confederation.

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)

Due to the geographical size of Asia, the AFC is subdivided into five sub-federations:

1: Formerly member of OFC (joined AFC in 2006)
2: Member of UAFA
3: Official name used by FIFA and AFC for People's Republic of China
4: Official name used by FIFA and AFC for Republic of China (Taiwan); OFC member 1975-1989
5: Official names used by FIFA and AFC; official names used by EAFF are "Hong Kong, China" (a) and "Macau, China" (b)
6: Iran is member of two sub-federations (WAFF and CESAFA)
7: Official names used by FIFA and AFC for Democratic People's Republic of Korea (a) and Republic of Korea (b)

CAF (Africa)

Due to the geographical size of Africa, CAF is divided into six regional federations:

  • Council of East and Central African Football Associations (CECACAF) - represents nations generally regarded as forming the regions of East Africa and some nations of Central Africa.
  • Council of Southern African Football Associations (COSAFA) - represents nations generally regarded as forming Southern Africa, as well as island states off the coast of Southern Africa.
  • Union of West African Football Associations (WAFU) - one of two bodies that represent nations in West Africa.
  • Union of North African Federations (UNAF) - represents nations regarded as forming North Africa.
  • Union des Fédérations du Football de l'Afrique Centrale (UNIFFAC) - represents some of the nations that form Central Africa.
  • Union du Football de l'Ouest Afrique - one of two bodies that represent nations in West Africa.

1: Member of UAFA
2: Official name used by FIFA and CAF for Democratic Republic of Congo

CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean)

The CONCACAF federation is divided into three regional federations that have responsibility for part of the region's geographical area:

1: Geographically considered as part of North America, but member of the CFU
2: Geographically part of South America, but member of CONCACAF (CFU)
3: Official name used by FIFA and CONCACAF for United States of America

CONMEBOL (South America)

OFC (Oceania)

1: Official name used by FIFA and OFC for French Polynesia

UEFA (Europe)

1: Official name used by FIFA and UEFA for Ireland
2: Formerly member of AFC (AFC 1954-1974; Joined UEFA in 1994)
3: Formerly member of AFC (Joined UEFA in 2002).
4: Official name used by FIFA and UEFA for Republic of Macedonia

NB:  Gibraltar was a provisional member of UEFA between 8 December 2006 and 26 January 2007 until the GFA had its application for full membership rejected.

Teams not affiliated to FIFA

These national teams are not affiliated to FIFA. 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.

FIFA Confederation members

These following teams have membership of their local confederations, but are not members of FIFA. The CONCACAF members are full members of their confederation; the other nations are all associate members of their confederation.

AFC (Asia)

CAF (Africa)

CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean)

OFC (Oceania)

NF-Board

These teams are full or provisional members of the Nouvelle Fédération-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.

Full Members

Provisional Members

1: Team name of British Indian Ocean Territory.

CSANF

The "Consejo Sudamericano de Nuevas Federaciones" is the South American confederation of NF-Board.

Full members

  • Atacameño (Likan-Antay)
  • Chile Juan Fernandez Islands

Associate members

  • Easter Island Easter Island

International Football Union

The IFU is an organisation formed with the intention of giving opportunities for national teams and teams of recognised autonomous areas that aren't members of FIFA to play international football. As of October 2009, two national teams have joined the organisation as provisional members.

Provisional members

Currently unaffiliated sovereign nations

The football teams that represent the following sovereign nations are not members of FIFA, the NF-Board, or their local confederation:

1. The Republic of Kosovo was unilaterally declared in February 2008. As of 2010-01-12, 65 countries have formally recognised Kosovan independence
2. The United Kingdom national football team has only ever competed in the Olympic Games (most recently in qualification for the 1972 Games) and in three friendly matches; otherwise, the UK is represented by separate teams for each of its constituent countries.

The Marshall Islands are the only sovereign nation state which has no national football team with any records.


Further information: List of non-national representative teams in men's football

Former national football teams

These national teams no longer exist due to the dissolution of the nation or territory that they represented. Note that this does not cover all changes to national teams - Croatia, for example, is an example of a team that played, was incorporated into another national team, and then reformed when the country regained independence.

Team Successor teams inheriting team's results Other successor teams Notes
 Czechoslovakia  Czech Republic
 Slovakia 		Represented Czechoslovakia until its dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993
 Saar  West Germany Represented the Saarland Protectorate from 1950 to 1956 before its absorption into the Federal Republic of Germany
 West Germany  Germany Represented the Federal Republic of Germany from 1950 till 1990, before it absorbed East Germany. Was considered a continuation of the team which had represented the German state between 1908 and 1942.
 East Germany  Germany Represented East Germany between 1952 and 1990, before that nations absorption into a united Germany.
 Ireland  Northern Ireland  Republic of Ireland Represented Ireland until the secession of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom in 1922. The team continued to be known as Ireland, selecting some players from the Irish Free State, later the Republic of Ireland, until 1953 when it was renamed Northern Ireland to reflect its geographic mandate.
 North Vietnam  Vietnam Represented North Vietnam from 1949 till its union with South Vietnam in 1975.
 South Vietnam  Vietnam Represented South Vietnam from 1949 till its union with North Vietnam in 1975.
 North Yemen  Yemen Represented North Yemen from 1965 till its union with South Yemen in 1990.
 South Yemen  Yemen Represented South Yemen from 1965 till its union with North Yemen in 1990.
 United Arab Republic  Egypt  Syria Represented the United Arab Republic from 1958 to 1961 until the secession of Syria. Was considered a continuation of the previous Egypt national football team, which became its successor team. The team continued to be known as the United Arab Republic until 1970.
 Soviet Union  CIS  Estonia
 Latvia
 Lithuania 		Represented the Soviet Union from 1924 until its dissolution in 1991. This was considered a continuation of the team that had previously represented the Russian Empire.
 CIS  Russia  Armenia
 Azerbaijan
 Belarus
 Georgia
 Kazakhstan
 Kyrgyzstan
 Moldova
 Tajikistan
 Turkmenistan
 Ukraine
 Uzbekistan 		Represented the Commonwealth of Independent States and Georgia in 1992 until the creation of separate national teams for its constituent nations.
 Yugoslavia Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Federal Republic of Yugoslavia  Bosnia and Herzegovina
 Croatia
 North Macedonia
 Slovenia 		Represented Yugoslavia between 1920 and 1992, before the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Macedonia and Slovenia
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, later renamed Serbia and Montenegro  Serbia  Montenegro Represented the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, known as Serbia and Montenegro after 2003, between 1992 and 2006 when it was split into Serbia and Montenegro


New names

In addition to the unification or dissolution of nations, other nations have been renamed without changing their borders:

References

See also

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