Confederation of Independent Football Associations

Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA)
legal form	Non-profit organization
Seat	Luleå , Sweden
founding	2013
president	Per-Anders Blind
Vice President (s)	Kristof Wenczel, Dimitri Pagava
Secretary General	Sascha Düerkop
Members	59
Organization type	Umbrella organization for national associations
Website	www.conifa.org

The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is a football - an umbrella organization for national football associations and was founded, 2013. It is composed of teams representing nations , dependent territories, unrecognized states , minorities , stateless peoples and historical regions that are not members of FIFA .

CONIFA organizes the CONIFA world football championship every two years . The first tournament of this kind took place in 2014 in Östersund, Sweden . In June 2015 , the first CONIFA European football championship was held in Debrecen, Hungary .

Members

Football associations or organizations in the following countries are members (as of February 2020).

Europe (31)  Abkhazia ( national team )  Artsakh Çamëria Cornwall Délvidék (Hungarian minority in Serbia) Elba  Ellan Vannin ( Manx ) Felvidék (Hungarian minority in Slovakia) Francs Nice county  Greenland ( national team ) Jersey ( national team ) Carpathian Ukraine (Hungarian minority in Ukraine) Lazistan  Monaco ( national team ) Occitania (national team ) Padania Raetia Roma Sápmi ( selection team ) Sardinia Skåneland Szeklerland (Hungarian minority in Romania)  South Ossetia  Transnistria  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ( national team ) Donetsk People's Republic Lugansk People's Republic Western Armenia (Armenian minority in Turkey) Yorkshire

Asia (11) Aramaic Syriacs  Autonomous Region of Kurdistan ( selection team ) Karen Greed East Turkestan Punjab Rohingya Ryūkyū Islands Tamil Eelam ( Association )  Tibet (national team ) United Koreans in Japan Africa (9) Baraawe Barotseland Chagos Archipelago Darfur Kabylia Matabeleland  Zanzibar ( national team )  Somaliland  Western Sahara (national team ) North America (2) Cascadia  Quebec South America (2) Mapuche Easter island Oceania (4)  Hawaii  Kiribati ( national team ) Mariya  Tuvalu ( national team )

World ranking

As of October 8, 2018

#	National selection	Points
1.	Occitania	1443
2.	Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus	1432
3.	Carpathian Ukraine	1428
4th	Padania	1398
5.	Kurdistan Autonomous Region	1342
6th	Greenland	1337
7th	Szeklerland	1336
8th.	Abkhazia	1334
8th.	Punjab	1309
10.	Cascadia	1292
11.	Nice county	1280
12.	Felvidék	1269
13.	Délvidék	1254
14th	Quebec	1250
15th	Donetsk People's Republic	1240
16.	Sápmi	1240
17th	Matabeleland	1237
18th	Western Armenia	1232
19th	Western Sahara	1229
20th	Aramaic Syriacs	1210
21st	Lugansk People's Republic	1199
22nd	United Koreans in Japan	1174
23.	Nagorno-Karabakh	1156
24.	Zanzibar	1142
25th	Kabylia	1142
26th	Baraawe	1099
27.	Somaliland	1086
28.	Skåneland	1083
29	Roma	1079
30th	Ellan Vanni	1058
31.	South Ossetia	1057
32.	Tamil Eelam	1057
33.	Monaco	1052
34.	Francs	1032
35.	Tuvalu	1027
36.	Chagos Islands	1008
37.	Tibet	1004
38.	Raetia	971
39.	Darfur	951
40.	Kiribati	889

Hosted competitions

• CONIFA World Football Championship 2014
• CONIFA European Football Championship 2015
• CONIFA World Football Championship 2016
• CONIFA European Football Championship 2017
• CONIFA World Football Championship 2018
• CONIFA European Football Championship 2019
• CONIFA World Football Championship 2020
• CONIFA European Football Championship 2021

See also

• FIFA
• NF board

Cinematic reception

• Re: The alternative soccer World Cup , documentary, Arte , first broadcast July 13, 2018. ( further information )
• Abkhazia: The Other World Cup , documentary, Arte, first broadcast July 9, 2016. ( further information )

Web links

• Official website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Members. In: conifa.org. CONIFA, accessed on February 5, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Rankings. In: conifa.org. CONIFA, October 8, 2018, accessed on February 5, 2020 .