Confederation of Independent Football Associations

Confederation of Independent Football Associations
Formation	15 August 2013; 11 years ago
Type	Federation of associations
Headquarters	Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden
Membership	41 Members
Official languages	English is the official language for minutes, correspondence and announcements. French, German, Spanish and Italian are additional languages
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 Cyprus 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

CONIFA Women's World Football Cup

Futsal

CONIFA No Limits Mediterranean Futsal Cup

National leagues sanctioned by CONIFA

Liga de Balompié Mexicano^[4]

North Macedonia 2020 (Cancelled)

Nice 2021 (Cancelled)

Székely Land 2021 (Cancelled)

Lisbon 2023

Iraq 2024 (Cancelled)

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Map of ConIFA Tournaments
World Cup: European Cup:

Asian Cup:

Women's World Cup:

Current title holders

World Championship
Competition	Year	Champions	Title	Runners-up	Next edition^[5]
World Football Cup	2018 (final)	Kárpátalja	1st	Northern Cyprus	2025 June
Women's World Football Cup	2024 (final)	Sápmi	2nd	Tamil Eelam	TBD
Continental Championship
European Football Cup	2019 (final)	South Ossetia	1st	Western Armenia	TBD
Africa Football Cup	2022	Biafra	1st	Matabeleland	TBD
South America Football Cup	2022	Maule Sur	1st	Mapuche	TBD
North America Football Cup					TBD
Asia Football Cup	2023 ^[6]	Tamil Eelam	1st	Hmong FF	TBD
Futsal Championship
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

Current

As of November 2024^[7]

Europe (17)
Team
Abkhazia
Artsakh
Canton Ticino
Chameria
Cornwall
Ellan Vannin
Kárpátalja
Northern Cyprus
Occitania
Padania
Raetia
Sápmi
Sardinia
South Ossetia
Székely Land
Two Sicilies
Western Armenia

Asia (8)
Team
East Turkestan
Hmong FF
Kashmir
Kurdistan Region
Pakistan All-Stars^[8]
Panjab
Tamil Eelam
Tibet

Africa (4)
Team
Biafra^[9]
Kabylie
Katanga
Yoruba

North America (4)
Team
ANBM
Cascadia
Kiskeya
Kuskatan^[10]

South America (6)
Team
Armenian Argentine Community^[11]
Aymara^[12]
Guna People
Mapuche
Maule Sur
São Paulo FAD

Oceania (2)
Team
Hawaiʻi
West Papua

Former

Europe
Team
Crimea
Donetsk PR
Felvidék
Franconia
Luhansk PR
Monaco
County of Nice
Occitania
Provence
Romani people
Sicily
Transnistria
Yorkshire

Asia
Team
Arameans Suryoye
Karen
Lezghian
Rohingya
Ryūkyū
United Koreans in Japan

Africa
Team
Barawa
Basotho
Barotseland
Chagos Islands
Darfur
Matabeleland
Somaliland
Western Sahara
Zanzibar

North America
Team
Quebec

South America
Team
Rapa Nui

Oceania
Team
Kiribati
Mariya
Tuvalu

Leadership

Presidency

Presidents of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Per-Anders Blind	Sweden	7 June 2013	Incumbent

Vice-Presidents of ConIFA

Vice-Presidents of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Malcolm Blackburn	Isle of Man	2014	2016
2	Kristof Wenczel	Hungary	2015	Incumbent
3	Dimitri Pagave	Abkhazia	2016	Incumbent

General Secretaries

General Secretaries of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
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	7 August 2022
4	Jeroen Zandberg	Netherlands	7 August 2022	Incumbent

Africa President

Africa President of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
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

Asian President of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Tariq Abdulrahman	Iraq	7 June 2013	2017
2	Jens Jockel	Germany	2017	2020
3	Motoko Jitsukawa	Japan	2020	2022
4	Ruby-Ann Kagaoan	Philippines	2022	Incumbent

European President

European President of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Alberto Rischio	Italy	7 June 2013	Incumbent

Latin America President

Latin America President of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Jens Jockel	Germany	2013	2017
2	Zam Gutierrez	Mexico	2017	2019
3	Diego Bartolotta	Mexico	2019	Incumbent

North American and Caribbean President

North American and Caribbean President of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Mark Dieler	Germany	2013	2017
2	Noah Wheelock	Canada	2017	2020
3	Aaron Johnsen	United States	2020	Incumbent

Oceanian President

Oceanian President of ConIFA
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
1	Charles Reklai Mitchell	Palau	2014	2017
2	Ben Schultz	Australia	2017	Incumbent

Directors of Women’s Football

Directors of Women's Football
No.	Name	Country of origin	Took office	Left office
–	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	???
3	Norma Aguilera	Mexico	???	Incumbent

References

^ "CONIFA Constitution" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
^ "Sapmi Take Historic Win in First Women's Match". CONIFA. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2018-11-25.
^ "CONIFA Announces First-Ever Women's World Football Cup". CONIFA. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
^ "CONIFA Sanctions Liga de Balompié Mexicano, its First-Ever Professional League". CONIFA. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
^ "Calendar". www.conifa.org. Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
^ https://www.conifa.org/en/event/conifa-asia-cup-2023/
^ "Members". www.conifa.org. Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2023.
^ "Pakistan Football Association joins CONIFA". Retrieved 2023-07-01.
^ "Biafra De Facto Customary Government to participate in maiden CONIFA African Tournament". standardobservers.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
^ "Kuskatan joins CONIFA, reminds us of Latin American potential". kickingtheglobe.substack.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-23. Retrieved 2022-12-23.
^ "Profile". Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2022-12-24.
^ "CONIFA – The Guerrilla Alternative". hamptonthink.org. Archived from the original on 2023-06-30. Retrieved 2022-12-24.

External links

Official website

[1] "CONIFA Constitution" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2019. Retrieved 1 November 2019.

[womens-2] "Sapmi Take Historic Win in First Women's Match". CONIFA. Archived from the original on 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2018-11-25.

[3] "CONIFA Announces First-Ever Women's World Football Cup". CONIFA. Archived from the original on 2021-01-31. Retrieved 2021-02-04.

[4] "CONIFA Sanctions Liga de Balompié Mexicano, its First-Ever Professional League". CONIFA. Archived from the original on 9 July 2020. Retrieved 7 July 2020.

[Calendar-5] "Calendar". www.conifa.org. Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). Archived from the original on 10 June 2022. Retrieved 18 June 2022.

[6] ttps://www.conifa.org/en/event/conifa-asia-cup-2023/

[7] "Members". www.conifa.org. Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA). Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 8 March 2023.

[8] "Pakistan Football Association joins CONIFA". Retrieved 2023-07-01.

[9] "Biafra De Facto Customary Government to participate in maiden CONIFA African Tournament". standardobservers.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2022-12-24.

[10] "Kuskatan joins CONIFA, reminds us of Latin American potential". kickingtheglobe.substack.com. Archived from the original on 2022-12-23. Retrieved 2022-12-23.

[11] "Profile". Archived from the original on 2022-12-24. Retrieved 2022-12-24.

[12] "CONIFA – The Guerrilla Alternative". hamptonthink.org. Archived from the original on 2023-06-30. Retrieved 2022-12-24.

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