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This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world.
[edit] Current FIFA affiliates 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. [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) [edit] CAF (Africa)Due to the geographical size of Africa, CAF is divided into six regional federations:
1: Member of UAFA [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 [edit] CONMEBOL (South America)[edit] OFC (Oceania)1: Associate member of OFC but not FIFA member [edit] UEFA (Europe)1: Official name used by FIFA and UEFA for Ireland NB: [edit] Teams not affiliated to FIFAThese 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. [edit] Associate membersThese following teams have full, associate or provisional membership of their local confederations, but are not members of FIFA:
1: Full member of CONCACAF [edit] Currently unaffiliated sovereign nationsThe 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 2009-11-13, 63 countries have formally recognised Kosovan independence The [edit] NF-BoardThese 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.
1: Team name of British Indian Ocean Territory. [edit] CSANFThe "Consejo Sudamericano de Nuevas Federaciones" is the South American confederation of NF-Board. Full members
Associate members
[edit] International Football UnionThe 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 Further information: List of non-national representative teams in men's football [edit] Former national football teamsThese national teams no longer exist due to the dissolution or alteration of the nation they represented. [edit] FIFA recognised nationsThe following teams played in FIFA recognised competition. The nations they represent have since undergone name and border changes. Nations written in bold text inherit the records of all the teams written in italic text.
[edit] Split nationsThe following teams split from nations which still compete under the same name.
[edit] New namesIn addition to the unification or dissolution of nations, other nations have been renamed without changing their borders:
[edit] References[edit] See also
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