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Organising body | FIFA |
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Founded | 2024 |
Region | International |
Number of teams | 24 (from 6 confederations) |
Website | Official website |
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The FIFA Series, originally known as FIFA World Series, is a biennial invitational football competition promoted by FIFA that features international friendlies between national teams from different confederations, taking place in March of every even-numbered year. The first edition was held in March 2024.
The competition brings together men's national teams from all six FIFA confederations in a series of mini-tournaments, each consisting of four teams and held at a centralised venue during the FIFA match window in March of every even-numbered year. [1] [2] FIFA provides financial support to the participating national teams and is also in charge of organising the tournaments together with the host member association. [3]
On 16 December 2022, FIFA launched a friendly competition proposal, named the "FIFA World Series", in order to give national teams from different confederations more opportunities to play against each other. [1] [4] [5] FIFA President Gianni Infantino confirmed the competition on 16 March 2023, following his re-election to the post during the 73rd FIFA Congress in Kigali, Rwanda. [3]
The inaugural edition in 2024 acted as a pilot phase for the competition and was originally going to feature 5 series of 4 teams each to be held in 4 host countries during the FIFA match window from 18 to 26 March 2024. [6] [2] Eventually the FIFA Series: Egypt was added for a total of 6 series and 24 teams in the inaugural edition. [7]
Following the success of the pilot phase, Infantino announced the second edition in 2026 during his speech at the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok, Thailand in May 2024. [8] [9]
Year | Host | Final | Third place match | ||||||
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Winner | Score | Runners-up | Third place | Score | Fourth place | ||||
2024 | ![]() | ![]() Algeria | n/a | ![]() Bolivia | ![]() South Africa | n/a | ![]() Andorra | ||
![]() | ![]() Bulgaria | n/a | ![]() Azerbaijan | ![]() Tanzania | n/a | ![]() Mongolia | |||
![]() | ![]() Croatia | 4–2 | ![]() Egypt | ![]() Tunisia | 0–0 (4–2 p) | ![]() New Zealand | |||
![]() | ![]() Cape Verde | n/a | ![]() Guyana | ![]() Equatorial Guinea | n/a | ![]() Cambodia | |||
![]() | ![]() Guinea | n/a | ![]() Brunei | ![]() Bermuda | n/a | ![]() Vanuatu | |||
![]() | ![]() Central African Republic | n/a | ![]() Sri Lanka | ![]() Papua New Guinea | n/a | ![]() Bhutan | |||
Team | 2024 | 2026 | Years |
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AFC | |||
![]() | 4th | 1 | |
![]() | 2nd | 1 | |
![]() | 4th | 1 | |
![]() | 4th | 1 | |
![]() | 2nd | 1 | |
CAF | |||
![]() | 1st | Q | 2 |
![]() | 1st | 1 | |
![]() | 1st | 1 | |
![]() | 2nd | 1 | |
![]() | 3rd | 1 | |
![]() | 1st | 1 | |
![]() | 3rd | 1 | |
![]() | 3rd | 1 | |
![]() | 3rd | 1 | |
CONCACAF | |||
![]() | 3rd | 1 | |
![]() | 2nd | 1 | |
CONMEBOL | |||
![]() | 2nd | 1 | |
OFC | |||
![]() | 4th | 1 | |
![]() | 3rd | 1 | |
![]() | 4th | 1 | |
UEFA | |||
![]() | 4th | 1 | |
![]() | 2nd | 1 | |
![]() | 1st | 1 | |
![]() | 1st | 1 |
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