Confederation of Independent Football Associations#List of members

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8px Men's World Football Cup
8px Women's World Football Cup
8px Asian Football Cup
8px European Football Cup

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• CONIFA Men's World Football Cup
• CONIFA African Football Cup
• CONIFA Asian Football Cup
• CONIFA European Football Cup
• CONIFA No Limits European Championship
• CONIFA South American Football Cup

• {{flagicon|MEX}} Liga de Balompié Mexicano{{cite web|title=CONIFA Sanctions Liga de Balompié Mexicano, its First-Ever Professional League|url=http://www.conifa.org/en/2020/07/09/conifa-sanctions-liga-de-balompie-mexicano-its-first-ever-professional-league/|publisher=CONIFA|access-date=7 July 2020|archive-date=9 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200709140346/http://www.conifa.org/en/2020/07/09/conifa-sanctions-liga-de-balompie-mexicano-its-first-ever-professional-league/|url-status=live}}
• Kurdistan Football Association{{Cite web |date=2024-09-09 |title=Suspension of Kurdistan FA |url=http://www.conifa.org/en/suspension-of-kurdistan-fa/ |access-date=2025-04-08 |website=CONIFA |language=en-US}}

• CONIFA Women's World Football Cup
• CONIFA Women's Asian Football Cup

• CONIFA No Limits Mediterranean Futsal Cup

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All members of CONIFA are encouraged to invest in women's football in their communities, and to create female national selections to play and compete against other CONIFA members.

CONIFA's first ever official women's football match took place on 10 November 2018 in Northern Cyprus, with Sápmi ladies beating their Northern Cyprus hosts 4–0 in the Women's Friendship Cup.{{Cite web|title=Sápmi Take Historic Win in First Women's Match|work=CONIFA|url=http://www.conifa.org/en/2018/11/17/sapmi-take-historic-win-in-first-womens-match|access-date=2018-11-25|archive-date=2018-11-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118164719/http://www.conifa.org/en/2018/11/17/sapmi-take-historic-win-in-first-womens-match/|url-status=dead}} CONIFA announced their first Women's World Football Cup on 31 January 2021, to be hosted by Székely Land between 23 and 30 June 2021 and involve 6 teams.{{cite web|title=CONIFA Announces First-Ever Women's World Football Cup|work=CONIFA|url=http://www.conifa.org/en/2021/01/31/conifa-announce-first-ever-womens-world-football-cup/|access-date=2021-02-04|archive-date=2021-01-31|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210131085257/http://www.conifa.org/en/2021/01/31/conifa-announce-first-ever-womens-world-football-cup/|url-status=dead}}

The first futsal Tournament was the 2021 CONIFA No Limits Mediterranean Futsal Cup which was held in Italy and consisted of disabled futsal teams near the Mediterranean Sea.{{Cite web |date=2021-08-27 |title=CONIFA makes history with No Limits Mediterranean Futsal Cup |url=https://www.conifa.org/en/conifa-makes-history-with-no-limits-mediterranean-futsal-cup/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=CONIFA |language=en-US}}

CONIFA expressly uses the term "members" rather than "countries" or "states". A football association may be eligible to apply for membership of CONIFA if it, or the entity (ethnic or linguistic minority, indigenous group, cultural organization, territory) it represents, is not a member of FIFA and satisfies one or more of the following criteria:

• The football association is a member of one of the six continental confederations of FIFA, which are: AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA.
• The entity represented by the football association is a member of the International Olympic Committee.
• The entity represented by the football association is a member of one of the member federations of Association of IOC Recognised International Sports Federations (ARISF).
• The entity represented by the football association is in possession of an ISO 3166-1 country code.
• The entity represented by the football association is a de facto independent territory. A territory is considered de facto independent if it meets all of the following criteria: (a) a well-defined territory; (b) a permanent population; (c) an autonomous government, and (d) diplomatic recognition by at least one of the member states of the United Nations.
• The entity represented by the football association is included on the United Nations list of non-self-governing territories.
• The entity represented by the football association is included in the directory of countries and territories of the Travelers' Century Club.
• The entity represented by the football association is a member of the Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) and/or the Federal Union of European Nationalities (FUEN).
• The entity represented by the football association is a minority included in the World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples, maintained and published by Minority Rights Group International.
• The entity represented by the football association is a linguistic minority, the language of which is included on the list of ISO 639-2 codes.

As of {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}:{{cite web |url=https://www.conifa.org/en/members/ |title=Members |website=www.conifa.org |publisher=Confederation of Independent Football Associations (CONIFA) |access-date=8 March 2023 |archive-date=17 December 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211217041901/https://www.conifa.org/en/members/ |url-status=live }}

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| 20px Kuskatan{{Cite web|url=https://kickingtheglobe.substack.com/p/kuskatan-joins-conifa-reminds-us|title=Kuskatan joins CONIFA, reminds us of Latin American potential|date=10 August 2020 |publisher=kickingtheglobe.substack.com|access-date=2022-12-23|archive-date=2022-12-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221223095704/https://kickingtheglobe.substack.com/p/kuskatan-joins-conifa-reminds-us|url-status=live}}

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• Non-FIFA international football
• World Unity Football Alliance – several CONIFA members also hold membership of WUFA

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