CONIFA Women's World Football Cup

Last updated
CONIFA Women's World Football Cup
Founded2022;3 years ago (2022)
RegionInternational
Current championsSami flag.svg  Sápmi (2nd title)
Most successful team(s)Sami flag.svg  Sápmi
(2 titles)
Soccerball current event.svg 2024 CONIFA Women's World Football Cup

The CONIFA Women's World Football Cup is an international football tournament organized by CONIFA, an umbrella association for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA, which has been held every two years since 2022.

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Hosting

CONIFA is an organisation that provides an outlet for countries, sub-national entities, stateless peoples and ethnic minorities to play international football. Because a number of their members represent diasporas or displaced peoples, it is not always possible for the host of the World Football Cup to be able to hold the competition in their own "territory". As a consequence of this, CONIFA defines the "host" of the World Football Cup as being the member association that heads the organising committee, whether or not the tournament is actually played in the geographical area that the host association represents. [1]

Editions

Tibet 2022

The first edition of the CONIFA Women's World Cup was held in Tibet region of India in 2022. [2] 4 teams were intitaly planned to participate. However, Matabeleland reported issues with visas to participate, but no reason was given for Székely Land's withdrawal. Leaving Sápmi and Tibet that actually participated. [3]

The tournament was held in a two-legged format in early July. Sápmi won the competition and the first title. [4]

Sápmi 2024

The second edition was held in Bodø in Norway. The competition saw three teams participating in a double round-robin format. Tamil Eelam, Sápmi and Székely Land.

After initially being announced as participants, Kashmir and Northern Cyprus later withdrew from the competition with no official reason given. [5] Tibet would also be removed from the tournament on the opening day after the team was unable to secure visa to travel aboard on time. [6] These withdrawals would result in the tournament being reduced from the originally announced 6 participants to 3.

Results

Ed.YearHostFirst place gameThird place gameNum.
teams
Gold medal icon.svg ChampionScoreSilver medal icon.svg Runner-upBronze medal icon.svg ThirdScoreFourth
1 2022 Flag of Tibet.svg  Tibet [note 1] Sami flag.svg
Sápmi
22–1 [note 2] Flag of Tibet.svg
Tibet
——————2
2 2024 Sami flag.svg  Sápmi [note 3] Sami flag.svg
Sápmi
2–1Bicolor flag of Tamil Eelam.svg
Tamil Eelam
Flag of Szekely Land.svg
Székely Land
————3
3 2026 Flag of France.svg  France [note 4]
Notes
  1. Tibet association named as official host; matches were held in Paonta Cholsum, India. [7]
  2. aggregate score of two legs
  3. Sapmi association named as official host; matches were held in Bodø, Norway. [8]
  4. Tamil Eelam association named as official host; matches to be held in Paris, France. [9]

Appearances

Legend

For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

Team 2022
Flag of Tibet.svg
(2)
2024
Sami flag.svg
(3)
Total participations
Sami flag.svg  Sápmi 1st1st2/2
Flag of Tibet.svg  Tibet 2nd1/2
Bicolor flag of Tamil Eelam.svg  Tamil Eelam 2nd1/2
Flag of Szekely Land.svg  Székely Land 3rd1/2

See also

References

  1. "World Football Cup Qualification System". CONIFA. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
  2. "CONIFA Women World Football Cup 2022". CONIFA. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  3. "Announcement | Women's World Football Cup". CONIFA. 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  4. "CONIFA Women World Football Cup 2022". CONIFA. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
  5. Laverty, Rich (2024-06-03). "CONIFA President looks ahead to second Women's World Cup". Women's Football Chronicles. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  6. "Tibetan women's football team withdraws from CONIFA 2024 after visa roadblock". phayul.com. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  7. Tsering, Dawa (2022-07-02). "The Tibet Museum Exhibits at CONIFA Women's World Football Cup - Central Tibetan Administration" . Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  8. "CONIFA Women's World Cup – Naisa2024" . Retrieved 2025-04-24.
  9. "CONIFA Asia & Oceania 2024 Report 2025 Activities 2025-2028 Plans" (PDF). Retrieved 2025-07-10.