August 2025 - April 2026 (Preliminary Stage) Summer 2026 (Finals)
Teams
16 (Preliminary Stage) 4 (Finals)
Venue(s)
1 (in 1 host city)
Tournament statistics
Matches played
28
International football competition
The 2026 Unrepresented World Cup is the first edition of the Unrepresented World Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by Unrepresented Sports.
Unrepresented Sports organised the tournament. Each team is responsible for organising their own preliminary stage games, consisting of two rounds of two-legged home and away ties. The final four is hosted by Unrepresented Sports at a neutral location.
The Preliminary Stage will consist of 16 teams consisting of a knock-out tournament with two-legged home and away ties, over two rounds, in which every club will face its opponents home and away. The winners of each first round game will progress to the second round of the Preliminary Stage. The winners of the second round of the Preliminary Stage will progress to the Final Four, held at a neutral location. The final four will be held over 2 consecutive days, with each day seeing two matches played back-to-back. Games were played for 90 minutes and if the teams were tied after this time then a penalty shootout would immediately follow.
During the Preliminary Stage teams will be grouped into four groups of four teams based on relative geography to best minimise travel between teams for both first and second rounds of the Preliminary Stage.
The preliminary rounds were played as two-legged home and away ties hosted by each participating team, with the final four played at a single venue held at a neutral location.
Location of the host cities preliminary stage for the 2026 Unrepresented World Cup
Region 1
1 Kernow
2 Panjab
3 Parishes of Jersey
4 Yorkshire
Region 2
5 Chagos Islands
6 Tamil Eelam
7 Raetia
8 Western Sahara
Region 3
9 Occitania
10 Sardinia
11 Sicily
12 Székely Land
Region 4
13 Abkhazia
14 South Ossetia
15 Northern Cyprus
16 Kurdistan
During the Preliminary Stage each team is responsible for hosting a game at a designated venue and must be declared by the host team prior to the draw and approved by Unrepresented Sports. Each draw is regionalised based on each teams selected venue. Teams may forfeit their own home leg and make a given draw single legged if no suitable venue can be approved.
