Confederation of Independent Football Associations

Formation	15 August 2013; 8 years ago (15 August 2013)
Type	Federation of associations
Headquarters	Luleå, Norrbotten, Sweden
Membership	50 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	www.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[edit] CONIFA World Football Cup CONIFA European Football Cup CONIFA Africa Football Cup CONIFA South America Football Cup CONIFA No Limits European Championship Women's[edit] CONIFA Women's World Football Cup

Futsal[edit] CONIFA No Limits Mediterranean Futsal Cup

National leagues sanctioned by CONIFA[edit] Liga de Balompié Mexicano[4]

Sapmi 2014 Székely Land 2015 Abkhazia 2016 Northern Cyprus 2017 North Macedonia 2020 (Cancelled) Nice 2021 (Cancelled) Székely Land 2021 (Cancelled) Map of ConIFA Tournaments World Cup: European Cup: Women's World Cup:

Current title holders

Competition		Year	Champions	Title	Runners-up		Next edition[5]
World Championship
CONIFA World Football Cup		2018[6] (Final)	Kárpátalja	1st	Northern Cyprus		2022 (Final)
CONIFA Women's World Football Cup			TBD	—	TBD		2022[7] (Final)
Continental Championship
CONIFA European Football Cup		2019[8] (Final)	South Ossetia	1st	Western Armenia		2022[9] (Final)
CONIFA No Limits European Championship		2021					TBD
CONIFA Africa Football Cup		2022[5] (Final)	Biafra	1st	Matabeleland		TBD
CONIFA South America Football Cup		2022[5] (Final)	Maule Sur	1st	Mapuche		TBD
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 June 2022^[10]

Europe (21)

Team
Abkhazia
Artsakh
Chameria
Cornwall
County of Nice
Elba Island
Ellan Vannin
Kárpátalja
Northern Cyprus
Occitania
Padania
Raetia
Romani people
Sápmi
Sardinia
Sicily
South Ossetia
Székely Land
Two Sicilies
Western Armenia
Yorkshire

Asia (11)

Team
East Turkestan
Karen
Kashmir
Kurdistan Region
Panjab
Rohingya
Ryūkyū
Tamil Eelam
Tibet
United Koreans in Japan
West Papua

Africa (11)

Team
Barawa
Basotho
Biafra
Chagos Islands
Kabylia
Matabeleland
Somaliland
Western Sahara
Yoruba
Yoruba NFF
Zanzibar

North America (3)

Team
ANBM
Cascadia
Kuskatan

South America (6)

Team
Armenian Argentine Community
Aymara
Mapuche
Maule Sur
Rapa Nui
São Paulo FAD

Oceania (3)

Team
Australian First Nations
Hawaiʻi
Kiribati

Important personalities

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	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	Zimbabwe	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	Safeen Kanabe	Iraq	7 June 2013	2017
2	Jens Jockel	Germany	2017	2020
3	Motoko Jitsukawa	Japan	2020	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	Incumbent