CONIFA World Football Championship

CONIFA World Football Championship
Full name	CONIFA World Football Cup
abbreviation	WFM
Association	CONIFA
First edition	2014
Teams	12
Game mode	Round tournament  (4 groups of 4 teams each) Knockout system (from quarterfinals)
Title holder	Carpathian Ukraine (1st title)
Record winner	Nice county Abkhazia Carpathian Ukraine   (1 title each)
Website	conifa.org

The CONIFA World Football Championship ( English CONIFA World Football Cup ) is a football tournament for members of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). This consists largely of independent states that are not members of FIFA , dependent states , minorities and micronations as well as other areas enjoying a certain degree of autonomy . The name World Soccer Cup was chosen because FIFA holds the rights to the term Soccer World Cup . The CONIFA World Football Championship has been held every two years since 2014. The CONIFA European Football Championship has been taking place in the intervening years since 2015 . Since CONIFA replaces the NF board , which was dissolved in 2013, the WFM can be seen as the successor to the Viva World Cup .

Award

The award will be voted on at the Annual General Meeting (AGM).

qualification

For the WFM 2014 , all participants were identified and invited internally. The teams from Québec and Zanzibar canceled their participation and were replaced by South Ossetia and the eventual winner, the County of Nice . The two finalists of the CONIFA European Football Championship 2015 , as well as the winners of two tournaments, were qualified for the 2016 edition , whereby the vice European champion and reigning world champion in the county of Nice, as well as tournament winner and vice world champion Ellan Vannin withdrew their participation. In addition to hosts Abkhazia , a wildcard was also given to the Aymara people , who are not CONIFA members but have also withdrawn their participation. The remaining starting positions were determined internally again. A detailed set of rules was issued to determine the starting places at the WFM 2018 . This divides all participants on six continents Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, North America / Caribbean and South America. The starting places are calculated from the number of member countries of the individual continents, starting with the continent with the fewest members. The starting places are awarded in seven different ways. The host automatically receives a starting place. If the championship is held by several associations, a maximum of so many starting places can be given to the hosts that ten starting places can be assigned in the other six ways. Another ticket will be awarded to the reigning world football champion. In addition, each continental football champion receives a starting place, although so far only European football championships have been held. Further tickets are awarded by members organizing their own qualifying competitions with at least three participants. The winner also receives a starting place. Qualification points are also awarded, which are calculated from an opponent factor and a result factor. For each game, four, two or one point for games against CONIFA members, national selections or other teams are multiplied by three, two or one point for wins, draws or defeats. The teams with the highest points will receive all other starting places except two, which are determined through a public survey and an internal wildcard award among all remaining CONIFA members.

Finals

For the final round, the qualified teams are divided into lottery pots. In the previous two events, there were twelve participants each, who were each placed in three pots with four teams. From these four groups with three teams each were drawn. At the beginning of the one-week tournament, each team plays once against the other two group opponents. The top two teams in each group will qualify for the quarter-finals. A placement round then begins in which the four bottom of the group play two games against two of the other three bottom of the group, just as the four quarter-final losers play two games against two of the three other quarter-final losers. The rear end placements are determined from these results. The four quarter-final winners then play the semi-finals, whose winners move into the final and the losers into the game for third place, where the remaining placements are determined.

World football championships

year	host		final			3rd place match
			First	Result	Second	Third	Result	Fourth
2014	Sápmi		Nice county	5: 3 i. E. (0: 0)	Ellan Vannin	Aramaic Syriacs	4: 1	South Ossetia
2016	Abkhazia		Abkhazia	6: 5 i. E. (1: 1)	Punjab	Northern Cyprus	2-0	Padania
2018	Baraawe		Carpathian Ukraine	3: 2 i. E. (0: 0)	Northern Cyprus	Padania	4: 3 i. E. (3: 3)	Szeklerland
2020	North Macedonia

Eternal table

#	team	Participation	Games	Victories	draw	Defeats	Gates	Goals conceded	difference	Points	title
1.	Abkhazia	3	16	9	5	2	36	11	+25	32	1
2.	Padania	3	16	7th	4th	5	58	18th	+40	25th	0
3.	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	2	11	6th	4th	1	29	10	+19	22nd	0
4th	Punjab	2	11	6th	3	2	28	10	+18	21st	0
5.	Western Armenia	2	11	4th	2	5	26th	14th	+12	17th	0
6th	Ellan Vannin	2	11	5	2	4th	18th	18th	0	17th	0
7th	Szeklerland	2	10	5	1	4th	32	14th	+18	16	0
8th.	Kurdistan	2	10	3	6th	1	23	9	+14	15th	0
9.	Carpathian Ukraine	1	6th	4th	2	0	15th	5	+10	14th	1
10.	Sápmi	2	9	4th	0	5	16	14th	+2	12	0
11.	United Koreans in Japan	2	11	2	6th	3	10	11	−1	12	0
12.	Cascadia	1	6th	3	1	2	17th	11	+6	10	0
13.	Aramaic Syriacs	1	5	3	1	1	9	6th	+3	10	0
14th	Nice county	1	5	3	1	1	8th	5	+3	10	1
15th	Matabeleland	1	6th	3	1	2	8th	12	−4	10	0
16.	Occitania	1	5	2	3	0	5	3	+2	9	0
17th	Artsakh	1	4th	2	0	2	19th	5	+14	6th	0
18th	Baraawe	1	6th	2	0	4th	7th	22nd	−15	6th	0
19th	Tamil Eelam	2	10	2	0	8th	16	37	−21	6th	0
20th	Kabylia	1	6th	1	2	3	8th	15th	−7	5	0
21st	South Ossetia	1	5	1	1	3	23	10	+13	4th	0
22nd	Tibet	1	6th	1	1	4th	7th	20th	−13	4th	0
23.	Somaliland	1	4th	1	0	3	6th	22nd	−16	3	0
24.	Tuvalu	1	6th	1	0	5	7th	24	−17	3	0
25th	Raetia	1	4th	0	1	3	3	23	−20	1	0
26th	Chagos Islands	1	4th	0	1	3	5	27	−22	1	0
27.	Darfur	1	4th	0	0	4th	0	61	−61	0	0

Records

Supreme victory

• Padania 20-0 Darfur (June 1, 2014, preliminary round)

Highest draw

• Padania 3-3 Abkhazia (June 5, 2014, placement round)
• Chagos Islands 3-3 Raetia (June 3, 2016, Placement Round)
• Punjab - Kaskadien 3: 3 (4: 3 i. E.; June 9, 2018, game for 5th place)

Most goals

• 28 (Padania, 2014)

Most goals conceded

• 61 (Darfur, 2014)

Fewest goals

• 0 (Darfur, 2014)

Fewest goals conceded

• 1 (Abkhazia, 2016)

Best difference

• +21 (Padania, 2014)

Worst difference

• −61 (Darfur, 2014)

Highest Score

• 14 (Carpathian Ukraine, 2018)

Record winner

• 1 (Nice County, 2014)
• 1 (Abkhazia, 2016)
• 1 (Carpathian Ukraine, 2018)

Most participations

• 3 (Padania, 2014, 2016, 2018)
• 3 (Abkhazia, 2014, 2016, 2018)

See also

• Football World Cup
• CONIFA European Football Championship
• Viva World Cup

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Agenda of the AGM 2017 at conifa.org (.pdf)
2. ↑ Qualification regulations for the CONIFA World Football Championship 2018 at conifa.org (.pdf)