FIFA country code

The FIFA Country Code is a three-letter country code used by FIFA and the continental associations ( AFC , CAF , CONCACAF , CONMEBOL , OFC and UEFA ) as an abbreviation in official competitions.

FIFA country codes

The total of 211 FIFA members use the following codes, which are assigned only once:

country code  Afghanistan AFG  Egypt EGY  Albania ALB  Algeria ALG  American Samoa ASA  American Virgin Islands VIR  Andorra AND  Angola ANG  Anguilla AIA  Antigua and Barbuda ATG  Equatorial Guinea EQG  Argentina ARG  Armenia POOR  Aruba ARU  Ethiopia ETH  Australia OUT  Azerbaijan AZE  Bahamas BAH  Bahrain BHR  Bangladesh BAN  Barbados BRB  Belarus BLR  Belgium BEL  Belize BLZ  Benin BEN  Bermuda BER  Bhutan BHU  Bolivia BOL  Bosnia and Herzegovina BIH  Botswana BOT  Brazil BRA  British Virgin Islands VGB  Brunei BRU  Bulgaria BUL  Burkina Faso BFA  Burundi BDI  Cayman Islands CAY  Chile CHI  China, People's Republic CHN  Chinese Taipei TPE  Cook Islands COK  Costa Rica CRC  Cote d'Ivoire CIV  Curacao CUW  Denmark THE  Germany GER  Dominica DMA  Dominican Republic DOM  Djibouti DJI  Ecuador ECU  El Salvador SLV  England CLOSELY  Eritrea ERI

country code  Estonia EST  Eswatini SWZ  Faroe Islands FRO  Fiji FIJ  Finland FIN  France FRA  French Polynesia TAH  Gabon GAVE  Gambia GAM  Georgia GEO  Ghana GHA  Gibraltar GIB  Greece GRE  Grenada GRN  Guam GUM  Guatemala GUA  Guinea GUI  Guinea-Bissau GNB  Guyana GUY  Haiti HAI  Honduras HON  Hong Kong HKG  India IND  Indonesia IDN  Iraq IRQ  Iran IRN  Ireland IRL  Iceland ISL  Israel ISR  Italy ITA  Jamaica JAM  Japan JPN  Yemen YEM  Jordan JOR  Cambodia CAM  Cameroon CMR  Canada CAN  Cape Verde CPV  Kazakhstan KAZ  Qatar QAT  Kenya KEN  Colombia COL  Comoros COM  Congo, Democratic Republic COD  Congo, Republic CGO  Korea, Democratic People's Republic PRK  Korea, Republic COR  Kosovo KVX  Kyrgyzstan KGZ  Croatia CRO  Cuba CUB  Kuwait KUW

country code  Laos LAO  Lesotho LES  Latvia LVA  Lebanon LBN  Liberia LBR  Libya LBY  Liechtenstein LIE  Lithuania LTU  Luxembourg LUX  Macau MAC  Madagascar MAD  Malawi MWI  Malaysia MAS  Maldives MDV  Mali MLI  Malta MLT  Morocco MAR  Mauritania MTN  Mauritius MRI  Mexico MEX  Moldova MDA  Mongolia MNG  Montenegro MNE  Montserrat MSR  Mozambique MOZ  Myanmar MYA  Namibia NAM  Nepal NEP  Netherlands NED  New Caledonia NCL  New Zealand NZL  Nicaragua NCA  Niger NIG  Nigeria NGA  Northern Ireland NIR  North Macedonia MKD  Norway NOR  Oman GRANNY  Austria AUT  Pakistan PAH  Palestine PLE  Panama PAN  Papua New Guinea PNG  Paraguay PAR  Peru BY  Philippines PHI  Poland POLE  Portugal POR  Puerto Rico PURE  Romania ROU  Russia RUS  Rwanda RWA  Solomon Islands SOL

country code  Zambia ZAM  Samoa SAM  San Marino SMR  Sao Tome and Principe STP  Saudi Arabia KSA  Scotland SCO  Sweden SWE  Switzerland SUI  Senegal SEN  Serbia SRB  Seychelles SEY  Sierra Leone SLE  Zimbabwe ZIM  Singapore SIN  Slovakia SVK  Slovenia SVN  Somalia SOM  Spain ESP  Sri Lanka SRI  St. Kitts and Nevis SKN  St. Lucia LCA  St. Vincent and the Grenadines VIN  South Africa RSA  Sudan SDN  South Sudan SSD  Suriname SUR  Syria SYR  Tajikistan TJK  Tanzania TAN  Thailand THA  East Timor TLS  Togo TOG  Tonga TGA  Trinidad and Tobago TRI  Chad CHA  Czech Republic CZE  Tunisia TO DO  Turkey DOOR  Turkmenistan TKM  Turks and Caicos Islands TCA  Uganda UGA  Ukraine UKR  Hungary HUN  Uruguay URU  Uzbekistan UZB  Vanuatu VUT  Venezuela VEN  United Arab Emirates UAE  United States United States  Vietnam VIE  Wales WHALE  Central African Republic CTA  Cyprus CYP

Country codes of non-FIFA countries

The following codes belong to countries or territories that are not (yet) members of FIFA but are (associate) members of one of the six confederations.

country code confederacy  Bonaire BOE CONCACAF  Kiribati KIR OFC  French Guiana GYF CONCACAF  Guadeloupe GLP CONCACAF  Martinique MTQ CONCACAF  Niue NIU OFC  Northern Mariana Islands NMI AFC  Reunion REU CAF  Sint Maarten SXM CONCACAF  Saint Martin SMT CONCACAF  Tuvalu TUV OFC  Zanzibar ZAN CAF

Former country codes

country code  Aden ADE  British Guiana BGU  British Honduras BHO  British India AM  Bohemia BOH  Burma BUR  Ceylon CEY  Dahomey DAH  GDR GDR  BR Germany FRG  Gold coast GOC  CIS CIS  Irish Free State EIR  Yemen, People's Democratic Republic SYE  Yemeni Arab Republic NYE

country code  Yugoslavia YUG  Congo, People's Republic CKN  Congo Brazzaville COB  New Hebrides HEB  Netherlands HOL  Netherlands Antilles ANT  Dutch Guiana NGY  Dutch East Indies DEI  North Borneo NBO  Northern Rhodesia NRH  Upper Volta UPV  Palestine PAL  Romania ROME  Rhodesia RHO  Saarland SAA

country code  Serbia and Montenegro SCG  Siam SIA  Southern Rhodesia SRH  Soviet Union URS  Sudan SOUTH  Tanganyika TAA  Taiwan TAI  Czechoslovakia TCH  United Arab Republic UAR  Vietnam, Republic VSO  Vietnam, Socialist Republic VNO  Western Samoa WSM  Zaire ZAI  Central African Republic CAF

Differences between the FIFA, IOC and ISO codes

In deviation from the FIFA codes, the IOC and / or ISO use different abbreviations for the following countries.

country	FIFA	IOC	ISO
Algeria	ALG	ALG	DZA
American Virgin Islands	VIR	ISV	VIR
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG	ANT	ATG
Equatorial Guinea	EQG	GEQ	EQG
Aruba	ARU	ARU	ABW
Bahrain	BHR	BRN	BHR
Barbados	BRB	BAR	BRB
Belize	BLZ	BIZ	BLZ
British Virgin Islands	VGB	IVB	VGB
Bulgaria	BUL	BUL	BGR
Burkina Faso	BFA	BUR	BFA
Costa Rica	CRC	CRC	CRI
Germany	GER	GER	DEU
El Salvador	SLV	ESA	SLV
Greece	GRE	GRE	GRC
Guinea-Bissau	GNB	GBS	GNB
Indonesia	IDN	INA	IDN
Iran	IRN	IRI	IRN
Kosovo	KVX	KOS	XKX
Croatia	CRO	CRO	HRV
Latvia	LVA	LAT	LVA
Libya	LBY	LBA	LBY
Malawi	MWI	MAW	MWI
Mongolia	MNG	MGL	MNG
Netherlands	NED	NED	NLD
Netherlands Antilles	ANT	AHO	ANT
Niger	NIG	NIG	NER
Nigeria	NGA	NGR	NGA
Palestine	PLE	PLE	PSE
Saudi Arabia	KSA	KSA	SOW
Switzerland	SUI	SUI	CHE
Slovenia	SVN	SLO	SVN
South Africa	RSA	RSA	ZAF
Sudan	SDN	SOUTH	SDN
Taiwan	TPE	TPE	TWN
Vietnam	VIE	VIE	VNM
Central African Republic	CTA	CAF	CAF

FIFA members who are not members of the IOC

• Anguilla
• England
• Curacao
• Faroe Islands
• Gibraltar
• Macau
• Montserrat
• New Caledonia
• Northern Ireland
• Scotland
• French Polynesia
• Turks and Caicos Islands
• Wales

IOC members who are not members of FIFA

• United Kingdom
• Kiribati
• Marshall Islands
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Monaco
• Nauru
• Palau
• Tuvalu

See also

• IOC codes are used in Olympic Games
• World Athletics codes are used in international athletics competitions.
• ISO codes

Web links

• FIFA Country Codes - Official list of country codes maintained by the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation ( Usenet group)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Associations . FIFA.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2006. Retrieved July 26, 2006.
2. ↑ Until October 10, 2010, removed after the Netherlands Antilles dissolved