(Redirected from List of national football teams)This is a 'list of the men's national
football (soccer) teams' in the world.
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:
★ Asia - ''
Asian Football Confederation'' (AFC)
★ Africa - ''
Confédération Africaine de Football'' (CAF)
★ North and Central America and the Caribbean - ''
Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football'' (CONCACAF)
★ South America - ''
Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol'' (CONMEBOL)
★ Oceania - ''
Oceania Football Confederation'' (OFC)
★ Europe - ''
Union of European Football Associations'' (UEFA)
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.
AFC (Asia)
'WAFF'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ | 'EAFF'
★
★ 1
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ ''2 | 'CSAFF'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ | 'ASEAN'
★ 3
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ |
1: Official name of the national team of the
Republic of China (Taiwan);
OFC member
1975-
1989
2: Associate member of
EAFF but not FIFA member
3: Formerly member of OFC (Joined AFC in
2006)
CAF (Africa)
'UNFC'
★
★
★
★
★ | 'COSAFA'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ ''1
★
★
★
★
★
★ | 'UNIFAC'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ | 'CECAFA'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ ''1
★
★
★
★ | 'COWAFA'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ | 'UFOA'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ |
1: Associate member of CAF but not FIFA member
CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean)
| | 'CFU'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ ''1
★
★ ''1
★
★
★
★ ''1
★
★
★
★
★
★ ''1
★
★ ''1
★
★
★
★ | | 'UNCAF'
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ | | 'NAFU'
★
★
★ |
1: Full CONCACAF member but not FIFA member.
CONMEBOL (South America)
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
OFC (Oceania)
★
★
★
★ ''
1
★ ''
1
★
★
★ ''
1
★ ''
1
★ ''
1
★
★
★
★
2
★
★ ''
1
★
1: Associate member of OFC but not FIFA member
2: Official Football Team Name of
French Polynesia since
1970
UEFA (Europe)
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ 1
★
★ 2 |
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★
★ |
1: Formerly member of AFC (
OFC 1972-
1994; Joined UEFA in
1994)
2: Formerly member of AFC (Joined UEFA in
2002)
Former national football teams
These national teams no longer exist due to the dissolution of the nation they represented.
Czechoslovakia
★
: ''Dissolved in 1993 into the independent nations of and .''
: FIFA recognizes the Czech Republic as the successor of the Czechoslovakia national team and attributes its records to it.
: Between 1918 and 1920 played international matches as Bohemia; between 1939 and 1945 as Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ; and in 1993 as Czech And Slovak Republic.
French Equatorial Africa
★ French Equatorial Africa
: ''Dissolved in 1960 into the four independent nations of , , , .''
: FIFA recognizes as the successor of the French Equatorial Africa national team and attributes its records to it.
French West Africa
★ French West Africa
: ''Dissolved in 1960 into the nine independent nations of , , , , , , , , .''
: FIFA recognizes as the successor of the French West Africa national team and attributes its records to it.
Germany
★
★
: ''Merged in October 1990 to form the unified national team of .''
: FIFA recognizes Germany as the successor of the West Germany national team and attributes their records to it.
: was the official name until 1949 when it became .
★
: ''Reintegrated in 1957 into .''
Ireland
★
: ''Dissolved in 1922 into and .''
: FIFA recognizes as the successor of and attributes its record to it.
: Between 1922 and 1937 Ireland played international matches as Irish Free State.
Korea
★
Korea
: ''Dissolved in 1945 into two independent nations and .''
: FIFA recognizes as the successor of
Korea and attributes its records to it.
Manchuria
★
Manchukuo
:''Integrated into in 1945.''
Netherlands Antilles
★
: ''Reintegrated in 1954 into .''
★
: ''Since 1991 has a representative team which is a full member of CONCACAF, but not a FIFA member.''
Sikkim
★
: ''Integrated into in 1975.''
Tanzania
★
★
: ''Merged in
1964 to form the unified national team of .''
: FIFA recognizes as the successor of the national team and attributes their records to it.
: The island of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania (and once an independent nation), is also an associate member of CAF and has played matches with other nations.
USSR
★
:, and ''had already seceded from the Soviet Union and had formed national teams before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992 into 12 independent nations, which played as in 1992, and subsequently launched their own national sides:''
:
★ :
★ :
★ :
★ | :
★ :
★ :
★ :
★ | :
★ :
★ :
★ :
★ |
:FIFA recognizes as the successor of the CIS, which was itself the successor of the USSR national team, and attributes the records of these two previous entities to it.''
: was the official name till 1917 when became .
Vietnam
★
★
: ''Merged in 1976 to form the unified national team of .''
: FIFA recognizes Vietnam as the successor of the North Vietnam national team and attributes its records to it.
Yemen
★
★
Aden →
Lahej →
: ''Merged in 1990 to form the unified national team of .''
: FIFA recognizes Yemen as the successor of the North Yemen national team and attributes its records to it.
Yugoslavia
★ (Socialist Federal Republic)
:''Dissolved in 1992 into 5 independent nations:''
:
★
:
★
:
★
:
★
:
★ (Federal Republic)
★ (Federal Republic) - later renamed to
: ''Dissolved in 2006 into the independent nations of and ''
: FIFA recognizes (and its predecessors and ) as the successor of the Yugoslavia SFR team and attributes its records to it.''
New names
In addition to the unification or dissolution of nations, other nations have been renamed:
★
Palestine/Eretz Israel became in
1948
★ became in
1949
★ became in
1957
★ became part of in
1958, then seceded to become again in
1972
★
Madagascar became
1958, and reverted to in
1975
★ became in
1960 then became in
1963, and then in 1971, and then became in
1997
★ French Equatorial Africa became in
1960, then became in
1992
★ French Togo became in
1960
★ became in
1962
★ became in
1963
★ became in
1964
★ became in
1964, and then in
1980
★ British Gambia became in
1965
★ became in
1966
★
Nyasaland became in
1966
★ French Somaliland became
French Territory of the Afars and Issas in
1967 and subsequently in
1977
★ became in
1972
★ became in
1975, then in
1979
★ became in
1975
★ became in
1975
★ Portuguese Guinea became in
1975
★ became in
1976, then became in
1979
★ became in
1980
★ became in
1983
★ became in
1984
★ became in
1989
★ became in
1996
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.
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:
★
3
★
3
★
1
★
3
★
1
★
1
★
1
★
1
★
2
★
3
★
3
★
1
★
2
1: Associate member of OFC
2: Associate member of CAF
3: Full member of CONCACAF
NF-Board
These 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.
Currently unaffiliated sovereign nations
These football teams that represent the following sovereign nations are not members of either FIFA or the NF-Board, or of their local confederation:
★
★
The are the only sovereign nation state who have no national football team with any records.
Teams of non-sovereign or unrecognized nations
The following teams are either recognised in tables of international football teams, or operate as if they were full national teams, although the territories they represent are not sovereign nations.
★
★
[1]
★
★
★
★
★
References
1. Gibraltar Football Association
See also
★
National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup
★
List of FIFA country codes
★
List of women's national football teams
★
NF-Board
Sources
★
List of associations, at FIFA's site
.svg)
العربية
中国
Français
Deutsch
Ελληνική
हिन्दी
Italiano
日本語
Português
Русский
Español
![Don\](images/articles/thumbs/beachrainthumb.jpg "Don\")
