List of National Soccer Teams From Around the World

Below is a list of the national football teams by their confederations. Some national teams are full members of their confederation, but do not have membership of FIFA; these are listed with a note explaining this. There are also notes of teams who have left one confederation to join another.

AFC (Asia)

West Asian Zone  Bahrain  Iraq  Jordan  Kuwait  Lebanon  Oman  Palestine  Qatar  Saudi Arabia  Syria  United Arab Emirates  Yemen

East Asian Zone  China PR  Chinese Taipei2  Guam  Hong Kong  Japan  Korea DPR  Korea Republic  Macau  Mongolia  Northern Mariana Islands3

Central And South Asian Zone  Afghanistan  Bangladesh  Bhutan  India  Iran  Kyrgyzstan  Maldives  Nepal  Pakistan  Sri Lanka  Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Uzbekistan

ASEAN Zone  Australia1  Brunei  Cambodia  Timor-Leste  Indonesia  Laos  Malaysia  Myanmar  Philippines  Singapore  Thailand  Vietnam

1: Formerly member of OFC (Joined AFC in 2006)
2: Official name of the national team of the Republic of China (Taiwan); OFC member 1975-1989
3: Associate member of EAFF but not FIFA member

CAF (Africa)

UNFC  Algeria  Egypt  Libya  Morocco  Tunisia

COSAFA  Angola  Botswana  Comoros  Lesotho  Madagascar  Mozambique  Mauritius  Namibia  Réunion1  South Africa  Zambia  Zimbabwe  Swaziland  Malawi  Seychelles

UNIFAC  Gabon  Cameroon  Congo DR  Congo  São Tomé and Príncipe  Central African Republic  Chad  Equatorial Guinea

CECAFA  Ethiopia  Eritrea  Djibouti  Somalia  Rwanda  Burundi  Zanzibar1  Tanzania  Kenya  Sudan  Uganda

COWAFA  Mauritania  Mali  Senegal  Sierra Leone  Gambia  Cape Verde  Guinea-Bissau  Guinea

UFOA  Liberia  Togo  Côte d'Ivoire  Ghana  Benin  Burkina Faso  Niger  Nigeria

1: Associate member of CAF but not FIFA member

CONCACAF (North and Central America and Caribbean)

North American Zone / NAFU  Canada  Mexico  USA

Central American Zone / UNCAF  Belize  Costa Rica  El Salvador  Guatemala  Honduras  Nicaragua  Panama

Caribbean Zone / CFU  Anguilla  Antigua and Barbuda  Aruba  Bahamas  Barbados  Bermuda  British Virgin Islands  Cayman Islands  Cuba  Dominica  Dominican Republic  French Guiana1, 2  Grenada  Guadeloupe1  Guyana2  Haiti  Jamaica  Martinique1  Montserrat  Netherlands Antilles  Puerto Rico  Saint Kitts and Nevis  Saint Lucia  Saint-Martin1  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines  Sint Maarten1  Suriname2  Trinidad and Tobago  Turks and Caicos Islands  U.S. Virgin Islands

1: Full CONCACAF member but not FIFA member.
2: South American nation, but member of CONCACAF.

CONMEBOL (South America)

•  Argentina
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Ecuador
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela

OFC (Oceania)

•  American Samoa
•  Cook Islands
•  Fiji
•  Kiribati¹
•  Federated States of Micronesia¹
•  New Caledonia
•  New Zealand
•  Niue¹
•  Northern Mariana Islands¹
•  Palau¹
•  Papua New Guinea
•  Samoa
•  Solomon Islands
•  Tahiti ²
•  Tonga
•  Tuvalu¹
•  Vanuatu

1: Associate member of OFC but not FIFA member

2: Official Football Team Name of French Polynesia since 1970

UEFA (Europe)

Albania  Andorra  Armenia  Austria  Azerbaijan  Belarus  Belgium  Bosnia and Herzegovina  Bulgaria  Croatia  Cyprus  Czech Republic  Denmark  England  Estonia  Faroe Islands  Finland  France  Georgia  Germany  Greece  Hungary  Iceland  Republic of Ireland  Israel1  Italy  Kazakhstan2

Latvia  Liechtenstein  Lithuania  Luxembourg  FYR Macedonia  Malta  Moldova  Montenegro  Netherlands  Northern Ireland  Norway  Poland  Portugal  Romania  Russia  San Marino  Scotland  Serbia  Slovakia  Slovenia  Spain  Sweden  Switzerland  Turkey  Ukraine  Wales

1: Formerly member of AFC (OFC 1972-1994; Joined UEFA in 1994)
2: Formerly member of AFC (Joined UEFA in 2002)

Former national football teams

These national teams no longer exist due to the dissolution of the nation they represented.

Czechoslovakia

•  Czechoslovakia

Dissolved in 1993 into the independent nations of  Czech Republic and  Slovakia.

FIFA recognizes the Czech Republic as the successor of the Czechoslovakia national team and attributes its records to it.

Between 1918 and 1920 played international matches as Bohemia; between 1939 and 1945 as Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia ; and in 1993 as Czech And Slovak Republic.

French Equatorial Africa

• French Equatorial Africa

Dissolved in 1960 into the four independent nations of  Congo,  Gabon,  Central African Republic,  Chad.

FIFA recognizes  Congo as the successor of the French Equatorial Africa national team and attributes its records to it.

French West Africa

• French West Africa

Dissolved in 1960 into the nine independent nations of  Mali,  Senegal,  Mauritania,  Guinea,  Burkina Faso,  Benin,  Togo,  Côte d'Ivoire,  Niger.

FIFA recognizes  Mali as the successor of the French West Africa national team and attributes its records to it.

Germany

•  East Germany
•  West Germany

Merged in October 1990 to form the unified national team of  Germany.

FIFA recognizes Germany as the successor of the West Germany national team and attributes their records to it.

 Germany was the official name until 1949 when it became  West Germany.

•  Saarland

Reintegrated in 1957 into  West Germany.

Ireland

•  Ireland

Dissolved in 1922 into  Northern Ireland and  Republic of Ireland.

FIFA recognizes  Northern Ireland as the successor of  Ireland and attributes its record to it.

Between 1922 and 1937 Ireland played international matches as Irish Free State.

Korea

• Korea

Dissolved in 1945 into two independent nations  Korea Republic and  Korea DPR.

FIFA recognizes  Korea Republic as the successor of Korea and attributes its records to it.

Manchuria

•  Manchuria

Integrated into  China PR in 1945.

Netherlands Antilles

•  Curaçao

Reintegrated in 1954 into  Netherlands Antilles.

•  Sint Maarten

Has a representative team which is a full member of CONCACAF, but not a FIFA member.

Sikkim

•  Sikkim

Integrated into  India in 1975.

Tanzania

•  Tanganyika
•  Zanzibar

Merged in 1964 to form the unified national team of  Tanzania.

FIFA recognizes  Tanzania as the successor of the  Tanganyika national team and attributes their records to it.

The island of Zanzibar, part of Tanzania (and once an independent nation), is also an associate member of CAF and has played matches with other nations.

USSR

•  USSR

 Estonia, Latvia and  Lithuania had already seceded from the Soviet Union and had formed national teams before the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992 into 12 independent nations, which played as  CIS in 1992, and subsequently launched their own national sides:

Armenia  Azerbaijan  Belarus  Georgia

Kazakhstan  Kyrgyzstan  Moldova  Russia

Tajikistan  Turkmenistan  Ukraine  Uzbekistan

FIFA recognizes  Russia as the successor of the CIS, which was itself the successor of the USSR national team, and attributes the records of these two previous entities to it.

 Russia was the official name till 1917 when became  USSR.

Vietnam

•  North Vietnam
•  South Vietnam

Merged in 1976 to form the unified national team of  Vietnam.

FIFA recognizes Vietnam as the successor of the North Vietnam national team and attributes its records to it.

Yemen

•  North Yemen
•  Aden → Lahej →  South Yemen

Merged in 1990 to form the unified national team of  Yemen.

FIFA recognizes Yemen as the successor of the North Yemen national team and attributes its records to it.

Yugoslavia

•  Yugoslavia (Socialist Federal Republic)

Dissolved in 1992 into 5 independent nations:

•  Bosnia and Herzegovina
•  Croatia
•  FYR Macedonia
•  Slovenia
•  Yugoslavia (Federal Republic)

•  Yugoslavia (Federal Republic) - later renamed to  Serbia and Montenegro

Dissolved in 2006 into the independent nations of  Serbia and  Montenegro

FIFA recognizes  Serbia (and its predecessors  Yugoslavia and  Serbia and Montenegro) as the successor of the Yugoslavia SFR team and attributes its records to it.

New names

In addition to the unification or dissolution of nations, other nations have been renamed:

•  Persia became  Iran in 1935
•  Siam became  Thailand in 1939
•  Yugoslavia became  Yugoslavia in 1945
•  British India became  India in 1947
• Palestine/Eretz Israel became  Israel in 1948
•  Dutch East Indies became  Indonesia in 1949
•  Gold Coast became  Ghana in 1957
•  Egypt became  United Arab Republic in 1958, then became  Egypt in 1972
•  Belgian Congo became  Congo-Leopoldvillé in 1960 then became  Congo-Kinshasa in 1963, and then  Zaire in 1971, and then became  Congo DR in 1997
• French Togo became  Togo in 1960
•  Tanganyika became  Tanzania in 1962
•  Malaya became  Malaysia in 1963
•  Northern Rhodesia became  Zambia in 1964
•  Southern Rhodesia became  Rhodesia in 1964, and then  Zimbabwe in 1980
•  British Guiana became  Guyana in 1966
• Nyasaland became  Malawi in 1966
• Spanish Guinea became  Equatorial Guinea in 1968
•  Ceylon became  Sri Lanka in 1972
•  Khmer Republic became  Kampuchea in 1975, then  Cambodia in 1979
•  Dahomey became  Benin in 1975
•  Malagasy Republic became  Madagascar in 1975
•  Dutch Guiana became  Suriname in 1975
• Portuguese Guinea became  Guinea-Bissau in 1975
•  Central African Republic became  Central African Empire in 1976, then became  Central African Republic in 1979
• French Somaliland became  Djibouti in 1977
•  New Hebrides became  Vanuatu in 1980
•  British Honduras became  Belize in 1981
•  Ivory Coast became  Côte d'Ivoire in 1983
•  Upper Volta became  Burkina Faso in 1984
•  Burma became  Myanmar in 1989
•  Congo-Brazzaville became  Congo in 1992
•  Western Samoa became  Samoa in 1996

Teams not affiliated to FIFA

These national teams are not affiliated to FIFA or their local confederation. Because their national associations are not FIFA members, they are ineligible to enter the FIFA World Cup, and their matches are not recognized as official. Some of these teams are affiliated to the NF-Board.

Associate members

These teams represent sovereign nations or territories: they have full, associate or provisional membership of their local confederations, but are not members of FIFA:

•  French Guiana³
•  Guadeloupe³
•  Kiribati¹
•  Martinique³
•  Federated States of Micronesia¹
•  Niue¹
•  Northern Mariana Islands¹
•  Palau¹
•  Réunion²
•  Saint-Martin³
•  Sint Maarten³
•  Tuvalu¹
•  Zanzibar²

1: Associate member of OFC
2: Associate member of CAF
3: Full member of CONCACAF

NF-Board

These teams are full or provisional members of the Nouvelle Fédération-Board, an organisation to promote international football among sovereign nations, unrecognised nations, regions and stateless peoples that are not members of FIFA, and to assist in their possible future membership of FIFA.

Full Members  Chagos Islands1  Greenland  Monaco  Occitania  Rijeka  Romani people  Sápmi  Somaliland  South Moluccas  Southern Cameroons  Tibet  Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus  West Papua

Provisional Members  Chechnya