List of men's national association football teams

This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world. The International Association Football Federation (FIFA) is the world's most important governing body for association football. A majority of national association football teams in the world are members of FIFA or one of its affiliated continental confederations. A majority of them also represent sovereign states with wide international recognition, with 188 of 195 United Nations (UN) member and observer states holding membership of FIFA. A notable exception is the United Kingdom, which is not a member of FIFA in its own right but is represented in the governing body by the teams of its four constituent countries. Other UN members and one observer state have either held membership in a confederation in the past and subsequently lost it, or have never belonged to either FIFA or one of its recognised confederations.

Membership of FIFA and its confederations also includes national teams representing a few states with limited international recognition, one associated state with no UN membership, a significant number of dependent territories, and a limited number of autonomous areas. A majority of states with limited recognition, however, have no membership of FIFA or any of its confederations.

This list divides national teams into three main groups:

• Teams that are either members of FIFA (211 teams), or have membership in a FIFA-affiliated continental confederation without being members of FIFA itself (11 teams).
• Teams that are not members of FIFA or any continental federation, but which represent UN member and observer states. This group includes four United Nations member states and one observer state (5 teams).
• Teams representing states with limited international recognition and no membership of FIFA or a confederation (7 teams), plus one representing an associated state with no membership of FIFA or a confederation.

This list excludes other teams described by their supporters as 'national', which represent specific ethnic groups, cultural/historical regions, separatist or autonomist movements, speakers of specific languages, and micronations. These teams have historically participated in matches and tournaments outside FIFA's recognition, though some of them have sporadically or regularly played in friendly matches and tournaments against FIFA members.

Some national teams with FIFA membership have disappeared due to belonging to a sovereign state or dependent territory which split into two or more states or territories (examples include the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, or the Netherlands Antilles), or by part of the territory becoming independent (such as the Ireland national football team, which ceased to exist as such after reaching a compromise with FIFA and recognising the Republic of Ireland national football team as representative of the independent part of Ireland). Other teams have disappeared by virtue of the states or territories they represented forming a new state by joining another entity or entities (examples include the teams representing Tanganyika and Malaya, which merged with other former colonies to respectively form the Tanzania and Malaysia football teams), or becoming part of an already existing state (as is the case with East Germany, which joined West Germany to form the unified Germany football team). In several cases the football records of dissolved teams are considered by FIFA as belonging to a successor entity (the Russia national team, for example, carries over the records of the Soviet Union national team). Defunct teams are listed on this page for historical purposes.

Even if only members of FIFA and its affiliated confederations are taken into account, there are more national association football teams in the world than those of any other sport.^[1]

Members of FIFA affiliated confederations

 

Map of the World with the six confederations:

  Asian Football Confederation (AFC)

  Confederation of African Football (CAF)

  Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)

  South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL)

  Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)

  Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

This section lists the current:

• 211 men's national football teams affiliated to FIFA, through their national football associations.
• 11 men's national football teams who have membership in one of FIFA's affiliated continental confederations, but are not members of FIFA.^[2]

FIFA members 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 Men's World Rankings, published monthly by FIFA, compare the relative strengths of the national teams.

Some national teams that are members of a confederation but not FIFA members compete in confederation-level and subregional tournaments. These teams, however, are not allowed to participate in the World Cup.

The six confederations are:

• Asia – Asian Football Confederation (AFC)^{[note 1]}
• Africa – Confederation of African Football (CAF)^{[note 1]}
• North and Central America and the Caribbean – Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
• South America – South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL)
• Oceania – Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
• Europe – Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)

FIFA runs the World Cup as a tournament for national teams to find the world champion. Each confederation also runs its own championship to find the best team from among its members:

• AFC – AFC Asian Cup
• CAF – Africa Cup of Nations
• CONCACAF – CONCACAF Gold Cup
• CONMEBOL – Copa América
• OFC – OFC Nations Cup
• UEFA – UEFA European Football Championship

The Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) organizes competitions between Arab League member nations.^[3] All 22 national governing bodies that form UAFA are also members of both FIFA and either the AFC or CAF. National teams from UAFA member countries are noted in the list below. The Arab Cup is the top championship tournament for national teams, organized historically by UAFA and by FIFA in 2021.

The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA) is an organization for teams representing unrecognised states, subnational regions, and stateless minorities, as well as teams from recognised states that have not managed to gain entry into FIFA. ConIFA is a successor to the Nouvelle Fédération-Board (N.F.-Board), which also organized tournaments for non-FIFA member teams. While none of the current ConIFA members are also members of FIFA, a few hold associate membership in one of the confederations affiliated with it. These teams are also noted in the list below.^[4] The ConIFA World Football Cup is the top tournament for ConIFA member nations.

AFC (Asia)

Due to the geographical size of Asia, the AFC is subdivided into five sub-federations:

• West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) – represents countries at the western extremity of the continent, except Israel.
• East Asian Football Federation (EAFF) – represents nations in East Asia, plus Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.
• Central Asian Football Association (CAFA) – represents countries in Central Asia, comprising Afghanistan, Iran, Russia and most of Soviet Central Asia, except Kazakhstan.
• South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) – represents countries in South Asia.
• ASEAN Football Federation (AFF) – represents countries in Southeast Asia, plus Australia.

Afghanistan   Australia^1   Bahrain^2   Bangladesh   Bhutan   Brunei Darussalam   Cambodia   China PR^3   Chinese Taipei^4   Guam   Hong Kong   India

Indonesia   Iraq^2   IR Iran^5   Japan   Jordan^2   Korea DPR^6   Korea Republic^7   Kuwait^2   Kyrgyz Republic^8   Laos   Lebanon^2   Macau

Malaysia   Maldives   Mongolia   Myanmar     Nepal   Northern Mariana Islands^9,10   Oman^2   Pakistan   Palestine^2,11   Philippines   Qatar^2   Saudi Arabia^2

Singapore   Sri Lanka   Syria^2   Tajikistan   Thailand   Timor-Leste   Turkmenistan   United Arab Emirates^2   Uzbekistan   Vietnam   Yemen^2

1. National governing body was formerly a member of OFC (1966–2006)
2. National governing body is a member of UAFA
3. Official name used by FIFA and AFC for People's Republic of China
4. Official name used by FIFA and AFC for Republic of China (Taiwan); national governing body was a member of OFC from 1975 to 1989
5. Official name used by FIFA and AFC for Islamic Republic of Iran
6. Official name used by FIFA for Democratic People's Republic of Korea; official name used by AFC is DPR Korea
7. Official name used by FIFA and AFC for Republic of Korea
8. Official name used by FIFA and AFC for Kyrgyzstan
9. National governing body is a full member of AFC but not a FIFA member
10. National governing body was formerly a member of OFC (2005–2009)
11. Official name used by FIFA and AFC for national team representing the Palestinian Territories

CAF (Africa)

Due to the geographical size of Africa, CAF is divided into five regional federations:

• Council for East and Central Africa Football Associations (CECAFA) – represents nations generally regarded as forming the regions of East Africa and some nations of Central Africa.
• Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (COSAFA) – represents nations generally regarded as forming Southern Africa, as well as island states off the coast of Southern Africa.
• West African Football Union/Union du Football de l'Ouest Afrique (WAFU/UFOA) – represents nations in West Africa.
• Union of North African Federations (UNAF) – represents nations regarded as forming North Africa.
• Union des Fédérations du Football de l'Afrique Centrale (UNIFFAC) – represents some of the nations that form Central Africa.

Algeria^1   Angola   Benin   Botswana   Burkina Faso   Burundi   Cameroon   Cape Verde   Central African Republic   Chad   Comoros^1   Congo   Congo DR^2   Côte d'Ivoire

Djibouti^1   Egypt^1   Equatorial Guinea   Eritrea   Eswatini   Ethiopia   Gabon   Gambia   Ghana   Guinea-Bissau   Guinea   Kenya   Lesotho   Liberia

Libya^1   Madagascar   Malawi   Mali   Mauritania^1   Mauritius   Morocco^1   Mozambique   Namibia   Nigeria   Niger   Réunion^3   Rwanda   São Tomé and Príncipe

Senegal   Seychelles   Sierra Leone   Somalia^1   South Africa   South Sudan   Sudan^1   Tanzania   Togo   Tunisia^1   Uganda   Zambia   Zanzibar^3,4,5   Zimbabwe

1. National governing body is a member of UAFA
2. Official name used by FIFA for Democratic Republic of the Congo; official name used by CAF is DR Congo
3. National governing body is an associate member of CAF but not a FIFA member
4. National governing body was a full member of CAF briefly during 2017
5. National governing body is a member of ConIFA. Was previously a member of the N.F.-Board.

CONCACAF (North, Central America, and the Caribbean)

The CONCACAF federation is divided into three regional federations that have responsibility for part of the region's geographical area:

• Caribbean Football Union (CFU) – represents all 27 nations in the Caribbean, plus Bermuda and three nations in South America.^{[note 2]}
• North American Football Union (NAFU) – represents the three countries in North America (not including Central America).
• Union Centroamericana de Fútbol (UNCAF) – represents the seven countries in Central America.

Anguilla   Antigua and Barbuda   Aruba   Bahamas   Barbados   Belize   Bermuda   Bonaire^1   British Virgin Islands   Canada   Cayman Islands

Costa Rica   Cuba   Curaçao   Dominica   Dominican Republic   El Salvador   French Guiana^1   Grenada   Guadeloupe^1   Guatemala   Guyana

Haiti   Honduras   Jamaica   Martinique^1   Mexico   Montserrat   Nicaragua   Panama   Puerto Rico   Saint Kitts and Nevis   Saint Lucia

Saint Martin^1   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines   Sint Maarten^1   Suriname   Trinidad and Tobago   Turks and Caicos Islands   United States   US Virgin Islands

1. National governing body is a full member of CONCACAF but not a FIFA member

CONMEBOL (South America)

Argentina   Bolivia   Brazil   Chile   Colombia

Ecuador   Paraguay   Peru   Uruguay   Venezuela

OFC (Oceania)

American Samoa   Cook Islands   Fiji   Kiribati^1,2   New Caledonia   New Zealand^3   Papua New Guinea

Samoa   Solomon Islands   Tahiti   Tonga   Tuvalu^1,2   Vanuatu

1. National governing body is an associate member of the OFC but not a FIFA member
2. National governing body is a member of ConIFA
3. National governing body was formerly a member of AFC (1964–1966)

UEFA (Europe)

Albania   Andorra   Armenia   Austria   Azerbaijan   Belarus   Belgium   Bosnia and Herzegovina   Bulgaria   Croatia   Cyprus   Czech Republic   Denmark   England

Estonia   Faroe Islands   Finland   France   Georgia   Germany   Gibraltar   Greece   Hungary   Iceland   Israel^1   Italy   Kazakhstan^2   Kosovo

Latvia   Liechtenstein   Lithuania   Luxembourg   Malta   Moldova   Montenegro   Netherlands   Northern Ireland   North Macedonia   Norway   Poland   Portugal   Republic of Ireland

Romania   Russia^3   San Marino   Scotland   Serbia   Slovakia   Slovenia   Spain   Sweden   Switzerland   Turkey   Ukraine   Wales

1. National governing body was formerly a member of AFC (1954–1974); joined UEFA in 1994
2. National governing body was formerly a member of AFC (1993–2002)
3. Team currently suspended from participation in FIFA and UEFA competitions in response to Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine^[5]

National teams not affiliated to FIFA confederations

The national football teams included in this section are not members of FIFA, or of any of its affiliated continental confederations. The teams are not eligible to enter the FIFA World Cup or any continental confederation championships. FIFA's statutes do not allow member teams to compete against these sides without FIFA's prior permission.^[6] Several national associations for teams included in this section are members of ConIFA; these are indicated in the lists below.

This section lists:

• 7 teams representing sovereign states which are member states of the United Nations or non-member observer states with the United Nations General Assembly.
• 8 teams representing states which are not members of the United Nations.

Unaffiliated United Nations states

Three UN members and one UN observer state do not have any sort of membership in FIFA or any continental federation, but have fielded national association-organised teams in unofficial friendly matches or in tournaments held outside the auspices of FIFA. Another UN member state, while being officially represented in FIFA and UEFA by the teams of its constituent nations, has also fielded a team representing the entire state in exhibition matches. The national teams of these five states are listed below.

•   Federated States of Micronesia
•   Monaco¹
•   Palau²
•   United Kingdom³
•   Vatican City

1. National governing body is a member of ConIFA. Was previously a member of the N.F.-Board.
2. Palau has been an associate member of the OFC in the past, but does not currently appear to be part of the confederation.^[7]
3. The United Kingdom (UK) is not a member of FIFA or UEFA in its own right, being represented instead by the teams of its four constituent nations (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales). However, an exhibition UK team has played a small number of friendly matches.^[8] The UK has also been represented in the Summer Olympic and Summer Universiade football competitions by its own national teams.

Two UN member states (the Marshall Islands and Nauru), have never fielded a national association-organised football team.^[9][10]

Unaffiliated non-UN states

Three states with limited international recognition and no UN membership are members of both FIFA and an affiliated confederation: the Republic of China (as Chinese Taipei), Kosovo, and Palestine. The Cook Islands is an associated state with no UN membership, but it is a member of both FIFA and the OFC. The national teams representing these states are all listed above.

A further eight associated, de facto, or partially recognized states with no UN membership have fielded football teams in non-FIFA football tournaments or FIFA-unsanctioned friendly matches.^{[11][12][13][14][15]} None of these states, however, are currently members of FIFA or any of its affiliated continental confederations. The teams representing these states are listed below.

•   Abkhazia¹
•   Artsakh^1,2
•   Niue⁴
•   Northern Cyprus^1,3
•   Somaliland¹
•   South Ossetia¹
•   Transnistria⁵
•   Western Sahara^1,3

1. National governing body is currently a member of ConIFA.
2. Previously known as Nagorno-Karabakh national football team. As of August 2021, the ConIFA world rankings designate the team as Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh).^[16]
3. National governing body was previously a member of the N.F.-Board.
4. National governing body was previously an associate member of the OFC (membership revoked in March 2021).^[17]
   
5. National governing body is a former member of ConIFA.

Others

Membership criteria of FIFA and affiliated confederations

Historically, the majority of FIFA and confederation members have been sovereign states with wide diplomatic recognition. Exceptions to this rule have included the British Home Nations (due to their seminal role in the development of football), Palestine (accepted into FIFA after the creation of the Palestinian National Authority),^[18] the Republic of China (which does not enjoy wide recognition but is still accepted as representative of the Taiwan area), and certain dependent territories, autonomous areas, and protectorates which, on the grounds of their political autonomy, separate status, and/or distance from their parent state, have been allowed to hold membership in FIFA and/or one of its affiliated confederations. At present, FIFA members include 23 subnational and dependent territories, as well as three states with limited international recognition.^{[note 3]} A further nine overseas, dependent, and autonomous territories with close ties to a sovereign state do not have membership in FIFA, but are members of one of its affiliated confederations (either in a full or associate capacity).

In 2016, FIFA made changes to its statutes to define 'country' as "an independent state recognized by the international community".^[19] In 2011, UEFA had already changed its statutes so that only countries recognised as independent states by the United Nations could join the organization.^[20], while CAF rescinded Zanzibar's full membership (which had been approved only months before) in 2017 on the grounds that Zanzibar is not a country as defined by the African Union and the United Nations.^[21][22] With some exceptions (such as the acceptances of Gibraltar and Kosovo into FIFA and UEFA in 2016), these regulations have made it harder for aspiring national associations to join FIFA or its affiliated confederations. Examples include Jersey (UEFA application rejected in 2018),^[23]Bonaire (FIFA application rejected in 2019),^[24] and Greenland (applied to CONCACAF in 2022 due to lack of prospects of being accepted into UEFA).^[25]

National teams outside the auspices of FIFA

See also: Non-FIFA Football

Beyond this list, a variety of teams representing dependent territories, autonomous areas, or regional, sub-national, ethnic, cultural, diaspora, immigrant, language, and micronational groups have been formed. These teams often play in international tournaments against each other, and in some cases in unsanctioned friendly games against FIFA members (for example, teams representing specific Spanish autonomous communities).^[26] Some subnational and dependent territory teams with no FIFA membership participate in regional football tournaments against FIFA or UN member nations (for example, the Mayotte and Reunion teams at the Indian Ocean Island Games or individual Micronesian state teams at the Micronesian Games).

The Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA), was founded with the aim of regularising non-FIFA international football, by having a two-year international tournament cycle, with the ConIFA World Football Cup in even numbered years, and continental tournaments in odd-numbered years.^[27] This developed the work of the now-defunct N.F.-Board (Nouvelle Fédération-Board), founded in 2001, which also organized football tournaments between FIFA-unrecognised teams.^[28] ConIFA aims to help unrecognised national teams gain recognition, but also to provide a platform for representative teams of regions or diasporas, which do not have a place in a system of international football based on nation-states.^[29] As of August 2021, 59 member associations from all over the world are affiliared with ConIFA.^[30] ConIFA is not the only body dedicated to organising football tournaments between non-FIFA national teams; other initiatives include the Island Games football tournament, the now-defunct Coupe de l'Outremer for French overseas territories, and the CSANF competitions between (mostly) South American regional and ethnic communities, among others.

Former FIFA-affiliated national football teams

These national teams no longer exist due to the dissolution of the nation or territory that they represented. While historically there have existed national teams without FIFA membership which are now defunct (such as the North Vietnam national football team), only national teams that have held FIFA membership at some point in the past are listed below.

Preceding team	Successor team (inherited position/results)	Other successor team(s)	Notes
Czechoslovakia (Representation of Czechs and Slovaks in 1993)	Czech Republic^[31]	Slovakia	Represented Czechoslovakia until its dissolution into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993.^[32] Jointly represented both nations during the remainder of their 1994 World Cup qualifying games.^[33]
Saar		West Germany	Represented the Saarland Protectorate from 1950 to 1956 before its union with the Federal Republic of Germany.^[34]
East Germany (officially German Democratic Republic)		Germany	Represented East Germany between 1952 and 1990, before reunification with West Germany.^[35]
Ireland	Northern Ireland	Republic of Ireland	Represented Ireland from 1882. From 1922, when the Irish Free State (later Republic of Ireland) left the United Kingdom, until 1953, it continued to pick players from across the Island of Ireland, before becoming restricted to players solely from Northern Ireland under pressure from FIFA.^[36]
Malaya	Malaysia		Represented the Federation of Malaya from 1953 until its union with Sarawak, North Borneo and Singapore to form Malaysia in 1963. Singapore, which gained independence in 1965, retained its preexisting national team.
Tanganyika	Tanzania		Represented Tanganyika until its union with Zanzibar as Tanzania in 1964. Zanzibar is an associate member of CAF and so is not a member of FIFA.
South Vietnam	Vietnam		Represented South Vietnam from 1949 until 1975. A separate team representing North Vietnam never received FIFA or AFC membership. On the reunification of Vietnam, both the North and South teams ceased to exist, with a unified Vietnam national football team taking the South's place in both FIFA and the AFC.
North Yemen (officially Yemen Arab Republic)	Yemen		Represented North Yemen from 1965 until its union with South Yemen in 1990.
South Yemen (officially People's Democratic Republic of Yemen)		Yemen	Represented South Yemen from 1965 until its union with North Yemen in 1990.
United Arab Republic	Egypt	Syria	Represented the United Arab Republic from 1958 to 1961 until the secession of Syria. Was considered a continuation of the previous Egypt national football team, which became its successor team. The team continued to be known as the United Arab Republic until 1970.
Russian Empire	Soviet Union		Represented Russian Empire from 1912 to 1923 until its transition into Soviet Union.
Soviet Union (officially Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)	CIS	Estonia   Latvia   Lithuania	Represented the Soviet Union from 1940 until its dissolution in 1991. This was considered a continuation of the team that had previously represented the Russian Empire. Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania had all had active football teams prior to their incorporation into the Soviet Union in 1940, and did not participate in the CIS team.^[37]
CIS	Russia	Armenia   Azerbaijan   Belarus   Georgia   Kazakhstan   Kyrgyzstan   Moldova   Tajikistan   Turkmenistan   Ukraine   Uzbekistan	Represented the Commonwealth of Independent States and Georgia from January 1992 until the end of the Euro 1992 tournament.
Yugoslavia	FR Yugoslavia	Bosnia and Herzegovina   Croatia   North Macedonia   Slovenia	Represented Yugoslavia between 1920 and 1992, before the dissolution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia into Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, North Macedonia and Slovenia
Serbia and Montenegro	Serbia	Montenegro   Kosovo	Represented the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, known as Serbia and Montenegro after 2003, from 1992 until its dissolution into Serbia and Montenegro in 2006. Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, and its national team was accepted into UEFA and FIFA in 2016.
Netherlands Antilles	Curaçao	Aruba   Bonaire   Sint Maarten	Aruba became a separate autonomous territory in 1986 and was accepted into FIFA in 1988. The former team represented the Netherlands Antilles until the dissolution of the country in 2010. Formerly known as "Curaçao", this name was restored in March 2011 when the new constituent country of Curaçao was given the Netherlands Antilles' place in FIFA and CONCACAF. The teams representing the former Netherlands Antilles territories of Bonaire and Sint Maarten are full members of CONCACAF but not of FIFA. Two other former Netherlands Antilles territories (Saba and Sint Eustatius) have fielded national teams in unofficial friendly matches in the past, but neither has membership of FIFA or a continental federation.^[38]

New names

In addition to the above, other teams have been renamed:

•   Congo →   Congo-Léopoldville in 1960 →   Congo-Kinshasa in 1963 →   Zaire in 1971 →   DR Congo in 1997
•   British Gambia →   Gambia in 1965
•   British Guiana →   Guyana in 1966
•   Burma →   Myanmar in 1989
•   Cambodia →   Khmer Republic in 1970 →   Kampuchea in 1975 →   Cambodia in 1979
•   Ceylon →   Sri Lanka in 1972
•   Curaçao →   Netherlands Antilles in 1958 until 2010
•   Czechoslovakia →   Representation of Czechs and Slovaks in 1993
•   Dahomey →   Benin in 1975
•   Dutch East Indies →   Indonesia in 1945
•   Egypt →   United Arab Republic in 1958 →   Egypt in 1971
•   FR Yugoslavia →   Serbia and Montenegro in 2003
•   FYR Macedonia →   North Macedonia in 2019
•   French Somaliland →   Djibouti in 1977
•   French Togoland →   Togo in 1960
•   Germany →   West Germany in 1945 →   Germany in 1990
•   Gold Coast →   Ghana in 1957
•   Irish Free State →   Ireland in 1936 →   Republic of Ireland in 1954
•   Ivory Coast →   Côte d'Ivoire in 1983
•   Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes →   Yugoslavia in 1929
•   Madagascar →   Malagasy Republic in 1958 →   Madagascar in 1975
•   Mandatory Palestine →   Israel in 1948
•   Middle Congo →   Congo-Brazzaville in 1960 →   PR Congo in 1970 →   Congo in 1992
•   New Hebrides →   Vanuatu in 1980
•   Northern Rhodesia →   Zambia in 1964
•   Nyasaland →   Malawi in 1966
•   Portuguese Guinea →   Guinea-Bissau in 1975
•   China →   Taiwan in 1954 →   Chinese Taipei in 1980
•   Southern Rhodesia →   Rhodesia in 1964 →   Zimbabwe in 1980
•   Surinam →   Suriname in 1954
•   Swaziland →   Eswatini in 2018
•   Turkey →   Türkiye in 2022
•   Upper Volta →   Burkina Faso in 1984
•   Vietnam →   South Vietnam in 1955
•   Western Samoa →   Samoa in 1997

Notes

1. Additionally, 22 nations in Africa and Asia belong to the Union of Arab Football Associations (UAFA) in addition to their respective regional confederations.
2. Guyana and Suriname are independent countries, and French Guiana is an overseas department and region of France
3. The FIFA-affiliated football teams that belong to non-UN members are:

   3 states with limited international recognition   Chinese Taipei   Kosovo   Palestine (also a UN observer state) 1 state in free association with New Zealand   Cook Islands 4 constituent countries of the United Kingdom   England   Northern Ireland   Scotland   Wales

   7 British Overseas Territories   Anguilla   Bermuda   British Virgin Islands   Cayman Islands   Gibraltar   Montserrat   Turks and Caicos Islands 2 constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands   Aruba   Curaçao 1 constituent country of the Kingdom of Denmark   Faroe Islands

   4 unincorporated territories of the United States   American Samoa   Guam   Puerto Rico   U.S. Virgin Islands 2 overseas collectivities of France   New Caledonia   Tahiti 2 special administrative regions of China   Hong Kong   Macau

See also

•  Association football portal

• Geography of association football
• List of FIFA country codes
• List of women's national association football teams
• List of association football competitions

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