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The football associations in this section represent fully and partially recognized sovereign states, dependent territories, and stateless nations that are not members of FIFA or a FIFA confederation. Several of these non-FIFA associations are included in the World Football Elo Ratings , which ranks all national association football teams from ...
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Location National or Regional Country 1863 The Football Association: London: National England: 1867 Sheffield Football Association: Sheffield: Regional England: 1871 o.e. South Derbyshire Football Association: Derbyshire: Regional England: 1873 Scottish Football Association: Glasgow: National Scotland: 1876 Football Association of Wales ...
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.
The North American Football Union is the smallest association union in the region with only three members, but its nations have strong commercial and marketing support from sponsors and they are the most populous nations in the region. The Caribbean Football Union has the ability to outvote NAFU and UNCAF with less than half of its membership.
The Confederation of African Football [a] (CAF) is the administrative and controlling body for association football, beach soccer, and futsal in Africa. It was established on 8 February 1957 at the Grand Hotel [ 2 ] in Khartoum , Sudan [ 3 ] by the national football associations of: Algeria , Egypt , Ethiopia , Nigeria , and South Africa .
While Macau is a special administrative region of China, it has its own football federation (Macau Football Association) and league (Liga de Elite). The Macau Football Association ran MFA Development fielding under-23 players in 2018 to compete in CMCL , but was not eligible for promotion to the Chinese third-tier .
The country gained independence in 1992, and its Football Association gained UEFA membership in 1998. [31] Due to political tensions between Bosniaks , Bosnian Serbs and Bosnian Croats , the country did not have a single national top division until the 2002–03 season, but rather two or three.