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

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 was announced as the tournament host.[1]

Host selection

In April 2023, following a visit to the region a month earlier announced that Kurdistan 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.[2]

Venues

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

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.[3] 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. [4]

ContinentActive
members		PercentageProposed
Spots		Actual
Spots
Africa310%11
Asia517%25
Europe1550%67
North America27%11
Oceania13%10
South America313%2TBC

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)
 RaetiaEuropeGroup B Winner17 June 20232nd2016Group stage (2016)
 Székely LandEuropeGroup C Winner2 July 20233rd2016, 2018Fourth (2018)
Cornwall CornwallEuropeGroup 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)

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. ↑ "Kurdistan Region to host CONIFA World Cup 2024". Kurdistan 24. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Men´s World Football Cup 2024 – qualification". CONIFA. 7 December 2022.
  4. ↑ https://twitter.com/kanakapowawae/status/1686468773749063682?s=20
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