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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.
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 ...
English: Map of the members of FIFA according to their confederation, on the 1st January 2006 (before this date, see this map): AFC – Asian Football Confederation in Asia and Australia CAF – Confederation of African Football in Africa
As per statistical convention in football, matches decided in extra time are counted as wins and losses, while matches decided by penalty shoot-outs are counted as draws. Teams are ranked by total points, then by goal difference, then by goals scored. As of 2022 FIFA World Cup [6] [7]
The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup (or simply the European Cup) and initially only gathered the top team of each country; this competition has since been expanded to gather the top 1–4 teams of each country's league (the number of teams depend on that country ...
Under FIFA rules as of 2017 that prohibit the previous two confederations hosting the next world Cup, the 2030 World Cup could not be held in Asia because the Asian Football Confederation was excluded from the bidding following the selection of Qatar in 2022, nor in North America because the CONCACAF countries of the United States, Canada and ...
Usage of the various names of association football vary among the countries and territories which use English as an official or de facto official language. The brief survey of usage below addresses places which have some level of autonomy in the sport and their own separate federation but are not actually independent countries: for example the constituent countries of the United Kingdom and ...
Map of the Home Nations. Home Nations (Welsh: Cenhedloedd Cartref) is a collective term in sport, [1] usually referring to England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. When a sport is governed by a council representing the island of Ireland, such as the Irish Rugby Football Union (IRFU), the term can refer to the nations of the constituent countries on the island of Great Britain (England ...