Confederation of Independent Football Associations
File:CONIFA logo.svg | |
Formation | 15 August 2013 |
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Type | Federation of associations |
Headquarters | Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden |
Membership | 54 Members |
Official languages | English is the official language for minutes, correspondence and announcements. French, German, Spanish and Italian are additional languages[1] |
President | Per-Anders Blind |
Website | conifa.org |
The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) is the international governing body for association football teams that are not affiliated with FIFA.
Competitions
Women's football
All members of CONIFA are encouraged to invest in women's football in their communities, and to create female national selections to play and compete against other CONIFA members.
CONIFA's first ever official women's football match took place on 10 November 2018 in Northern Cyprus, with Sápmi ladies beating their Northern Cypriot hosts 4–0 in the Women's Friendship Cup.[2] CONIFA announced their first Women's World Football Cup on 31 January 2021, to be hosted by Székely Land between 23 and 30 June 2021 and involve 6 teams.[3]
Men's
Women's |
Futsal |
National leagues sanctioned by CONIFA |
Current title holders
Competition | Year | Champions | Title | Runners-up | Next edition[5] | ||||
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World Championship | |||||||||
CONIFA World Football Cup | 2018 (Final) | Kárpátalja | 1st | Northern Cyprus | 2024 (Final) | ||||
CONIFA Women's World Football Cup | 2022 (Final) | Sápmi | 1st | Tibet | 2024 (Final) | ||||
Continental Championship | |||||||||
CONIFA European Football Cup | 2019 (Final) | South Ossetia | 1st | Western Armenia | 2023 (Final) | ||||
CONIFA No Limits European Championship | 2021 | TBD | |||||||
CONIFA Africa Football Cup | 2022 | Biafra | 1st | Matabeleland | TBD | ||||
CONIFA South America Football Cup | 2022 | Maule Sur | 1st | Mapuche | TBD | ||||
CONIFA Norte America Cup | 2023 | ||||||||
Futsal | |||||||||
CONIFA No Limits Mediterranean Futsal Cup | 2021 (Final) | County of Nice | Unknown | Sardinia | TBD |
Members
Types of members
CONIFA expressly uses the term "members" rather than "countries" or "states". A football association may be eligible to apply for membership of CONIFA if it, or the entity (ethnic and/or linguistic minority, indigenous group, cultural organization, territory) it represents, is not a member of FIFA and satisfies one or more of the following criteria:
- The football association is a member of one of the six continental confederations of FIFA, which are: AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA.
- The entity represented by the football association is a member of the International Olympic Committee.
- The entity represented by the football association is a member of one of the member federations of Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF).
- The entity represented by the football association is in possession of an ISO 3166-1 country code.
- The entity represented by the football association is a de facto independent territory. A territory is considered de facto independent if it meets all of the following criteria: (a) a well-defined territory; (b) a permanent population; (c) an autonomous government, and (d) diplomatic recognition by at least one of the member states of the United Nations.
- The entity represented by the football association is included on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories.
- The entity represented by the football association is included in the directory of countries and territories of the Travelers' Century Club.
- The entity represented by the football association is a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and/or the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN).
- The entity represented by the football association is a minority included in the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, maintained and published by Minority Rights Group International.
- The entity represented by the football association is a linguistic minority, the language of which is included on the List of ISO 639-2 codes.
List of members
As of September 2023[6]
Team |
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East Turkestan |
Karen |
Kashmir |
Kurdistan Region |
Panjab |
Rohingya |
Ryūkyū |
Tamil Eelam |
Tibet |
United Koreans in Japan |
West Papua |
Team |
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Barawa |
Biafra |
Chagos Islands |
Kabylie |
Katanga |
Matabeleland |
Somaliland |
Western Sahara |
Yoruba |
Zanzibar |
Team |
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ANBM |
Cascadia |
Kuskatan |
Team |
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Armenian Argentine Community |
Aymara |
Mapuche |
Maule Sur |
Easter Island |
São Paulo FAD |
Team |
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Australian First Nations |
Hawaiʻi |
Kiribati |
Important personalities
Presidency
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Per-Anders Blind | Sweden | 7 June 2013 | Incumbent |
Vice-Presidents of ConIFA
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Malcolm Blackburn | Isle of Man | 2014 | 2016 |
2 | Kristof Wenczel | Hungary | 2015 | Incumbent |
3 | Dimitri Pagave | Abkhazia | 2016 | Incumbent |
General Secretaries
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Sascha Düerkop | Germany | 7 June 2013 | 30 April 2020 |
2 | Jason Heaton | England | 30 April 2020 | 2 August 2021 |
3 | Piotr Podlewski | Poland | 2 August 2021 | Incumbent |
Africa President
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Masoud Attai | Zanzibar | 7 June 2013 | 2017 |
2 | Justin Walley | England | 2017 | 2020 |
3 | Christian Lubasi Luzongo Kalalaluka | Zambia | 2020 | 2022 |
4 | Ngala Maimo Wajiri | Cameroon | 2022 | Incumbent |
Asian President
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Safeen Kanabe | Iraq | 7 June 2013 | 2017 |
2 | Jens Jockel | Germany | 2017 | 2020 |
3 | Motoko Jitsukawa | Japan | 2020 | Incumbent |
European President
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Alberto Rischio | Italy | 7 June 2013 | Incumbent |
Latin America President
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Jens Jockel | Germany | 2013 | 2017 |
2 | Zam Gutierrez | Mexico | 2017 | 2019 |
3 | Diego Bartolotta | Mexico | 2019 | Incumbent |
North American and Caribbean President
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Mark Dieler | Germany | 2013 | 2017 |
2 | Noah Wheelock | Canada | 2017 | 2020 |
3 | Aaron Johnsen | United States | 2020 | Incumbent |
Oceanian President
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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1 | Charles Reklai Mitchell | Palau | 2014 | 2017 |
2 | Ben Schultz | Australia | 2017 | Incumbent |
Directors of Women’s Football
No. | Name | Country of origin | Took office | Left office |
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– | Cassie Childers | United States | 6 September 2017 | 2019 |
1 | Kelly Lindsey | United States | February 2019 | 28 February 2020 |
2 | Håkan Kuorak | Sweden | 28 February 2020 | Incumbent |
See also
- Non-FIFA international football
- New Football Federations-Board
- World Unity Football Alliance – Several CONIFA members also hold membership of the WUFA.
- CONIFA World Football Cup
- CONIFA European Football Cup
References
- ^ "CONIFA Constitution" (PDF). Retrieved 1 November 2019.
- ^ "Sapmi Take Historic Win in First Women's Match". CONIFA. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
- ^ "CONIFA Announces First-Ever Women's World Football Cup". CONIFA. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
- ^ "CONIFA Sanctions Liga de Balompié Mexicano, its First-Ever Professional League". CONIFA. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
- ^ "Calendar". www.conifa.org. Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). Retrieved 18 June 2022.
- ^ "Members". www.conifa.org. Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). Retrieved 18 June 2022.
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