List of men's national football teams
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This is a list of the men's national football (soccer) teams in the world.
Current FIFA affiliates
There are currently 207 men's national football teams affiliated to FIFA (the world's football governing body) that are eligible to enter the FIFA World Cup and whose matches between them are recognized as official matches.
Based on these results, the FIFA World Rankings, published monthly by FIFA, compare the relative strengths of the national teams, although Comoros and Timor-Leste have not yet received a rank.
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)
Argentina
Bolivia
Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Ecuador
Paraguay
Peru
Uruguay
Venezuela
American Samoa
Cook Islands
Fiji
New Caledonia
New Zealand
Papua New Guinea
Samoa
Solomon Islands
Tahiti
Tonga
Vanuatu
Currently unaffiliated nations
These sovereign nations are not members of FIFA or of their local confederation:
KiribatiMarshall Islands Micronesia Monaco Montenegro
Former FIFA affiliates
These national teams no longer exist due to the dissolution of the nation they represented.CzechoslovakiaEast Germany Saar Serbia and Montenegro
Teams not affiliated to FIFA
These national teams are not affiliated to FIFA. 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.This is an incomplete list, and teams may be inactive.
- Åland Islands
- Alderney
- Anglesey
- Ascension Island
- Azores
- Basque Country
- Bougainville
- Catalonia
- Chagos Islands
- Chechnya
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands
- Falkland Islands
- French GuianaCONCACAF member.
- Galicia
- Gibraltar
- Gotland
- Greenland
- Guadeloupe
- Guernsey
- Hitra
- Isle of Man
- Isle of Wight
- Jersey
- Kiribati
- Madeira
- Marshall Islands
- Martinique
- Mayotte
- Micronesia
- Monaco
- Nauru
- NiueOFC associate member.
- Northern Cyprus
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Orkney Islands
- Palau
- Pitcairn Islands
- Republic of Srpska
- RéunionCAF associate member.
- Rhodes
- Saaremaa
- Saint Helena
- Saint-Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint-Martin
- Sápmi
- Sark
- Sealand
- Shetland Islands
- Sint Maarten
- Somaliland
- South Moluccas
- Tibet
- Tokelau
- Tuvalu
- Vatican City
- Wallis and Futuna
- Western Isles (Outer Hebrides)
- Western Sahara
- Zanzibar
Footnotes
See also
- National team appearances in the FIFA World Cup
- List of FIFA country codes
- List of women's national football teams
Sources
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- Asia: AFC – Asian Cup
- Africa: CAF – African Cup of Nations
- North America: CONCACAF – Gold Cup
- South America: CONMEBOL – Copa América
- Oceania: OFC – Nations Cup
- Europe: UEFA – European Championship
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