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2024 CONIFA World Football Cup

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2024 CONIFA World Football Cup
Tournament details
Host countryIraq
(Host association: Kurdistan Region)
DatesSummer 2025
Teams16
Venue(s)3 (in 3 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)
2018
2025

The 2024 CONIFA World Football Cup will be the fourth edition of the CONIFA World Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organized by CONIFA. On 9 May 2023, Kurdistan Region was announced as the tournament host.[1]

On 30 April 2024, CONIFA announced that the tournament would be postponed until summer 2025 after security concerns meant that a large number of teams would not travel to the region. [2] On 9 September 2024, it was announced that Kurdistan would no longer host the tournament and had been suspended by CONIFA, no new host for the 2025 event was announced but an unofficial statement by the CONIFA President shared through social media suggested that Brazilian state of São Paulo was to become the new host.[3][4]

The mascot and official logo is a goat, national animal of Kurdistan region.

Host selection

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In April 2023, following a visit to the region a month earlier announced that the Kurdistan Region would host the 2024 CONIFA World Football Cup, the first since the 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup due to the COVID-19 Pandemic resulting in the cancellation of the 2020 CONIFA World Football Cup due to be held in Skopje, North Macedonia.[5]

Venues

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Kurdistan Region
Duhok Erbil Sulaymaniyah
Duhok Stadium Franso Hariri Stadium Sulaymaniyah Stadium
Capacity: 22,800 Capacity: 25,000 Capacity: 15,000

Qualification

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CONIFA assigns the number of berths for each continent according to the percentage of CONIFA members that come from that continent, with each continent having guaranteed at least one spot in the tournament.[6] In addition, one place is reserved to the host team, other to the current champion (Kárpátalja) and one wild card. Hawaiʻi shared, via social media, that while they had been given an automatic ticket to the tournament, as Oceania's only member, they had declined the invitation and transferred their ticket to Asia, although no formal confirmation had been made by CONIFA. [7]

Continent Active
members[8]
Percentage Proposed
Spots
Actual
Spots
Africa 1 10% 1 1
Asia 6 17% 2 5
Europe 16 50% 6 8
North America 3 7% 1 1
Oceania 1 3% 1 0
South America 2 13% 2 2

Qualified teams

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Team Region Method of
qualification
Date of
qualification
Finals
appearance
Previous
appearance
Previous best
performance
 Kárpátalja Europe 2018 Champion 9 June 2018 2nd 2018 Champion (2018)
 Kurdistan Region Asia Host team 9 May 2023 3rd 2014, 2016 Quarterfinalist (2014, 2016)
 Raetia Europe European Group B Winner 17 June 2023 2nd 2016 Group stage (2016)
 Székely Land Europe European Group C Winner 2 July 2023 3rd 2016, 2018 Fourth (2018)
 Cornwall Europe European Group A Winner 16 July 2023 1st
 Tamil Eelam Asia Asia Football Cup Winner 8 August 2023 3rd 2016, 2018 Group Stage (2016)
 Tibet Asia Asia Football Cup Third Place 8 August 2023 2nd 2018 Group Stage (2018)
ANBM North America Selected 18 August 2023 1st
 Kabylie Africa Selected 14 September 2023 2nd 2018 Group Stage (2018)
 Abkhazia Europe Selected 14 September 2023 4th 2014, 2016, 2018 Champion (2016)
 Panjab Asia Selected 7 November 2023 2nd 2016, 2018 Runners-up (2016)
Kashmir Asia Selected 7 November 2023 1st
 Two Sicilies Europe Selected 7 November 2023 1st
 South Ossetia Europe Selected 7 November 2023 2nd 2014 Fourth (2014)
Canton Ticino Europe Selected 7 November 2023 1st
São Paulo FAD South America Selected 28 February 2024 1st
Maule Sur South America Selected 20 March 2024 1st

References

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  1. ^ "Last month our president confirmed that the 2024 CONIFA World Cup hosting rights were awarded to @KurdistanFA". CONIFA Official. 9 May 2023.
  2. ^ "Official Statement". X. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  3. ^ "Suspension of Kurdistan FA". CONIFA. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  4. ^ "Unreleased CONIFA Video". X. Retrieved 9 September 2024.
  5. ^ "Kurdistan Region to host CONIFA World Cup 2024". Kurdistan 24. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  6. ^ "Men´s World Football Cup 2024 – qualification". CONIFA. 7 December 2022.
  7. ^ https://twitter.com/kanakapowawae/status/1686468773749063682?s=20
  8. ^ Based on presentation during 2024 Annual General Meeting[1]