List of men's national association football teams:
This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world.
[edit] 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:
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.
[edit] 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: Official name of the national team of the Republic of China (Taiwan); OFC member 1975-1989
3: Official names used by FIFA and AFC; official names used by EAFF are "Hong Kong, China" and "Macau, China"
4: Iran is member of two sub-federations (WAFF and CESAFA).
NB:  Northern Mariana Islands is member of the EAFF, but also has associate membership of the OFC
[edit] 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: Associate member of CAF but not FIFA member
2: Provisional member of NF-Board
[edit] 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: Full CONCACAF member but not FIFA member.
3: Geographically part of South America, but member of CONCACAF (CFU).
[edit] CONMEBOL (South America)
[edit] OFC (Oceania)
1: Associate member of OFC but not FIFA member
2: Provisional member of NF-Board
3: Northern Mariana Islands is also an associate member of EAFF
4: Official Football Team Name of French Polynesia since 1970
[edit] UEFA (Europe)
1: Constituent country of the United Kingdom, but individual member of UEFA and FIFA
2: Formerly member of AFC (AFC 1972-1994; Joined UEFA in 1994)
3: Formerly member of AFC (Joined UEFA in 2002).
4: Represents the country of Ireland. Name Republic of Ireland adopted after FIFA ruling.
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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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:
1: Full member of CONCACAF
2: Associate member of OFC
3: Associate member of CAF
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