2024 CONIFA World Football Cup

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 of Iraq was announced as the tournament host.[1]

2024 CONIFA World Football Cup
Tournament details
Host countryIraq
(Host association: Kurdistan Region)
Dates25 June – 6 July
Teams16
Venue(s)3 (in 3 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Top scorer(s)

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]

Host selection

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.[3]

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

Qualification
Main article: 2024 CONIFA World Football Cup qualification

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.[4] 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. [5]

ContinentActive
members[6]		PercentageProposed
Spots		Actual
Spots
Africa110%11
Asia617%25
Europe1650%68
North America37%11
Oceania13%10
South America213%22

Qualified teams
Team Region Method of
qualification		 Date of
qualification		 Finals
appearance		 Previous
appearance		 Previous best
performance
 KárpátaljaEurope2018 Champion9 June 20182nd2018Champion (2018)
 Kurdistan RegionAsiaHost team9 May 20233rd2014, 2016Quarterfinalist (2014, 2016)
 RaetiaEuropeEuropean Group B Winner17 June 20232nd2016Group stage (2016)
 Székely LandEuropeEuropean Group C Winner2 July 20233rd2016, 2018Fourth (2018)
 CornwallEuropeEuropean Group A Winner16 July 20231st——
 Tamil EelamAsiaAsia Football Cup Winner8 August 20233rd2016, 2018Group Stage (2016)
 TibetAsiaAsia Football Cup Third Place8 August 20232nd2018Group Stage (2018)
ANBMNorth AmericaSelected18 August 20231st——
 KabylieAfricaSelected14 September 20232nd2018Group Stage (2018)
 AbkhaziaEuropeSelected14 September 20234th2014, 2016, 2018Champion (2016)
 PanjabAsiaSelected7 November 20232nd2016, 2018Runners-up (2016)
KashmirAsiaSelected7 November 20231st——
 Two SiciliesEuropeSelected7 November 20231st——
 South OssetiaEuropeSelected7 November 20232nd2014Fourth (2014)
Canton TicinoEuropeSelected7 November 20231st——
São Paulo FADSouth AmericaSelected28 February 20241st——
Maule SurSouth AmericaSelected20 March 20241st——

References
  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. "Kurdistan Region to host CONIFA World Cup 2024". Kurdistan 24. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  4. "Men´s World Football Cup 2024 – qualification". CONIFA. 7 December 2022.
  5. https://twitter.com/kanakapowawae/status/1686468773749063682?s=20
  6. Based on presentation during 2024 Annual General Meeting
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