FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph [1] ) to each of its member and non-member countries. These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
There are currently 211 FIFA members, each with its own unique country code: [2] [3]
Country | Code |
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Afghanistan | AFG |
Albania | ALB |
Algeria | ALG |
American Samoa | ASA |
Andorra | AND |
Angola | ANG |
Anguilla | AIA |
Antigua and Barbuda | ATG |
Argentina | ARG |
Armenia | ARM |
Aruba | ARU |
Australia | AUS |
Austria | AUT |
Azerbaijan | AZE |
Bahamas | BAH |
Bahrain | BHR |
Bangladesh | BAN |
Barbados | BRB |
Belarus | BLR |
Belgium | BEL |
Belize | BLZ |
Benin | BEN |
Bermuda | BER |
Bhutan | BHU |
Bolivia | BOL |
Bosnia and Herzegovina | BIH |
Botswana | BOT |
Brazil | BRA |
British Virgin Islands | VGB |
Brunei | BRU |
Bulgaria | BUL |
Burkina Faso | BFA |
Burundi | BDI |
Cambodia | CAM |
Cameroon | CMR |
Canada | CAN |
Cape Verde | CPV |
Cayman Islands | CAY |
Central African Republic | CTA |
Chad | CHA |
Chile | CHI |
China | CHN |
Chinese Taipei | TPE |
Colombia | COL |
Comoros | COM |
Congo | CGO |
Cook Islands | COK |
Costa Rica | CRC |
Croatia | CRO |
Cuba | CUB |
Curaçao | CUW |
Cyprus | CYP |
Czech Republic | CZE |
Country | Code |
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Denmark | DEN |
Djibouti | DJI |
Dominica | DMA |
Dominican Republic | DOM |
DR Congo | COD |
East Timor | TLS |
Ecuador | ECU |
Egypt | EGY |
El Salvador | SLV |
England | ENG |
Equatorial Guinea | EQG |
Eritrea | ERI |
Estonia | EST |
Eswatini | SWZ |
Ethiopia | ETH |
Faroe Islands | FRO |
Fiji | FIJ |
Finland | FIN |
France | FRA |
Gabon | GAB |
Gambia | GAM |
Georgia | GEO |
Germany | GER |
Ghana | GHA |
Gibraltar | GIB |
Greece | GRE |
Grenada | GRN |
Guam | GUM |
Guatemala | GUA |
Guinea | GUI |
Guinea-Bissau | GNB |
Guyana | GUY |
Haiti | HAI |
Honduras | HON |
Hong Kong | HKG |
Hungary | HUN |
Iceland | ISL |
India | IND |
Indonesia | IDN |
Iran | IRN |
Iraq | IRQ |
Israel | ISR |
Italy | ITA |
Ivory Coast | CIV |
Jamaica | JAM |
Japan | JPN |
Jordan | JOR |
Kazakhstan | KAZ |
Kenya | KEN |
Kosovo | KOS |
Kuwait | KUW |
Kyrgyzstan | KGZ |
Laos | LAO |
Country | Code |
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Latvia | LVA |
Lebanon | LBN |
Lesotho | LES |
Liberia | LBR |
Libya | LBY |
Liechtenstein | LIE |
Lithuania | LTU |
Luxembourg | LUX |
Macau | MAC |
Madagascar | MAD |
Malawi | MWI |
Malaysia | MAS |
Maldives | MDV |
Mali | MLI |
Malta | MLT |
Mauritania | MTN |
Mauritius | MRI |
Mexico | MEX |
Moldova | MDA |
Mongolia | MNG |
Montenegro | MNE |
Montserrat | MSR |
Morocco | MAR |
Mozambique | MOZ |
Myanmar | MYA |
Namibia | NAM |
Nepal | NEP |
Netherlands | NED |
New Caledonia | NCL |
New Zealand | NZL |
Nicaragua | NCA |
Niger | NIG |
Nigeria | NGA |
North Korea | PRK |
North Macedonia | MKD |
Northern Ireland | NIR |
Norway | NOR |
Oman | OMA |
Pakistan | PAK |
Palestine | PLE |
Panama | PAN |
Papua New Guinea | PNG |
Paraguay | PAR |
Peru | PER |
Philippines | PHI |
Poland | POL |
Portugal | POR |
Puerto Rico | PUR |
Qatar | QAT |
Republic of Ireland | IRL |
Romania | ROU |
Russia | RUS |
Rwanda | RWA |
Country | Code |
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Saint Kitts and Nevis | SKN |
Saint Lucia | LCA |
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | VIN |
Samoa | SAM |
San Marino | SMR |
São Tomé and Príncipe | STP |
Saudi Arabia | KSA |
Scotland | SCO |
Senegal | SEN |
Serbia | SRB |
Seychelles | SEY |
Sierra Leone | SLE |
Singapore | SGP |
Slovakia | SVK |
Slovenia | SVN |
Solomon Islands | SOL |
Somalia | SOM |
South Africa | RSA |
South Korea | KOR |
South Sudan | SSD |
Spain | ESP |
Sri Lanka | SRI |
Sudan | SDN |
Suriname | SUR |
Sweden | SWE |
Switzerland | SUI |
Syria | SYR |
Tahiti | TAH |
Tajikistan | TJK |
Tanzania | TAN |
Thailand | THA |
Togo | TOG |
Tonga | TGA |
Trinidad and Tobago | TRI |
Tunisia | TUN |
Turkey | TUR |
Turkmenistan | TKM |
Turks and Caicos Islands | TCA |
Uganda | UGA |
Ukraine | UKR |
United Arab Emirates | UAE |
United States | USA |
Uruguay | URU |
U.S. Virgin Islands | VIR |
Uzbekistan | UZB |
Vanuatu | VAN |
Venezuela | VEN |
Vietnam | VIE |
Wales | WAL |
Yemen | YEM |
Zambia | ZAM |
Zimbabwe | ZIM |
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The following codes refer to countries or dependent territories that are currently not affiliated with FIFA, but whose codes either appear in the FIFA results database, or are used regularly by confederation websites:
Country | Code | Confederation |
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Bonaire | BES [4] | CONCACAF |
BOE [5] | ||
French Guiana | GUF [6] | CONCACAF |
Great Britain | GBR [3] | |
Guadeloupe | GLP [7] | CONCACAF |
Kiribati | KIR [3] | OFC |
Martinique | MTQ [8] | CONCACAF |
Niue | NIU [9] | OFC |
Northern Cyprus | NCY | |
TRNC | ||
Northern Mariana Islands | MNP [10] | AFC |
NMI | ||
Réunion | REU [11] | CAF |
Saint Martin | MAF [12] | CONCACAF |
SMN [13] | ||
Sint Maarten | SXM [14] | CONCACAF |
SMA [15] | ||
Tuvalu | TUV [16] | OFC |
Western Sahara | ESH | |
SADR | ||
Zanzibar | ZAN | CAF |
The following codes refer to countries or dependent areas that are currently not affiliated with FIFA. Even though they are members or associate members of their regional confederations, these codes are not regularly used in.
Country | Code |
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Basque Country | BSQ |
Catalonia | CAT |
Micronesia | FSM [17] |
Greenland | GRL |
Marshall Islands | MHL [3] |
Monaco | MON [18] |
MCO | |
Nauru | NRU [3] |
Palau | PLW [19] |
Saint Barthélemy | BLM |
Saint Pierre and Miquelon | SPM |
Saint Helena | SHN |
Transnistria | PMR |
Tokelau | TOK |
Vatican City | VAT |
Wallis and Futuna | WLF |
WAF |
The following codes are obsolete because a country has ceased to exist (e.g. by merging into another or splitting into several countries), changed its name or its code:
Country | Code |
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Bohemia | BOH |
British Guiana | BGU |
British India | BIN |
Burma | BUR |
Central African Republic | CAF |
Ceylon | CEY |
CIS | CIS |
Czechoslovakia | TCH |
Dahomey | DAH |
Dutch East Indies | INH |
East Germany | GDR |
Gold Coast | GOC |
Ireland | EIR |
Kosovo | KVX |
Lebanon | LIB |
Country | Code |
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Malaya | MAL |
Netherlands | HOL |
Netherlands Antilles | ANT |
New Hebrides | HEB |
North Vietnam | VNO |
North Yemen | YAR |
Northern Rhodesia | NRH |
Palestine, British Mandate | PAL |
Rhodesia | RHO |
Romania | ROM |
Saar | SAA |
Serbia and Montenegro | SCG |
Siam | SIA |
Singapore | SIN |
South Vietnam | VSO |
Country | Code |
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South Yemen | YMD |
Southern Rhodesia | SRH |
Soviet Union | URS |
Sudan | SUD |
Suriname | NGY |
Taiwan | TAI |
Tanganyika | TAA |
United Arab Republic | UAR |
Upper Volta | UPV |
West Germany | FRG |
Western Samoa | WSM |
Yugoslavia | YUG |
FR Yugoslavia | |
Zaire | ZAI |
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