CONIFA Women's World Football Cup
| Founded | 2022 |
|---|---|
| Region | International |
| Current champions |  Sápmi (2nd title) |
| Most successful team(s) | Sápmi (2 titles) |
 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.
Hosting
[edit]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
[edit]Tibet 2022
[edit]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, but only Sápmi and Tibet actually particpated.[3]
The tournament was held in a two-legged format in early July. Sápmi won the competition and the first title.[4]
Sápmi 2024
[edit]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
[edit]| Ed. | Year | Host | First place game | Third place game | Num. teams | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Champion
|
Score |  Runner-up
|
 Third
|
Score | Fourth | ||||
| 1 | 2022 |  Tibet[note 1]
|
 Sápmi |
22–1[note 2] | Tibet |
—— | —— | —— | 2 |
| 2 | 2024 | Sápmi[note 3]
|
Sápmi |
2-1 |  Tamil Eelam |
 Székely Land |
—— | —— | 2 |
- Notes
Appearances
[edit]- Legend
- 1st — Champions
- 2nd — Runners-up
- 3rd — Third Place
- — Hosts
- • — Did not participate
For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.
| Team | 2022 (2) |
2024 (3) |
Total participations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sápmi
|
1st | 1st | 2/2 |
| Tibet
|
2nd | • | 1/2 |
| Tamil Eelam
|
• | 2nd | 1/2 |
| Székely Land
|
• | 3rd | 1/2 |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "World Football Cup Qualification System". ConIFA. Archived from the original on 24 December 2017. Retrieved 3 September 2017.
- ^ "CONIFA Women World Football Cup 2022". CONIFA. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
- ^ "Announcement | Women's World Football Cup". CONIFA. 2022-04-25. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
- ^ "CONIFA Women World Football Cup 2022". CONIFA. Retrieved 2025-04-22.
- ^ Laverty, Rich (2024-06-03). "CONIFA President looks ahead to second Women's World Cup". Women's Football Chronicles. Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "Tibetan women's football team withdraws from CONIFA 2024 after visa roadblock". phayul.com. 6 June 2024. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
- ^ Tsering, Dawa (2022-07-02). "The Tibet Museum Exhibits at CONIFA Women's World Football Cup - Central Tibetan Administration". Retrieved 2025-04-24.
- ^ "CONIFA Women's World Cup – Naisa2024". Retrieved 2025-04-24.
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