| Tourney Name: | CONIFA World Football Cup |
| Year: | 2024 |
| Country: | Iraq |
| Dates: | Summer 2025 |
| Num Teams: | 16 |
| Venues: | 3 |
| Cities: | 3 |
| Prevseason: | 2018 |
| Nextseason: | 2026 |
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 Region was announced as the tournament host.[1]
On 30 April 2024, CONIFA announced that the tournament would be postponed until summer 2025 after security concerns meant that a large number of teams would not travel to the region. [2]
In April 2023, following a visit to the region a month earlier announced that the Kurdistan Region 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.[3]
| Kurdistan Region | ||
|---|---|---|
| Duhok | Erbil | Sulaymaniyah |
| Duhok Stadium | Franso Hariri Stadium | Sulaymaniyah Stadium |
| Capacity: 22,800 | Capacity: 25,000 | Capacity: 15,000 |
See main article: 2024 CONIFA World Football Cup 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.[4] 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. [5]
| Continent | Active members[6] | Percentage | Proposed Spots | Actual Spots | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Africa | 1 | 10% | 1 | 1 | |
| Asia | 6 | 17% | 2 | 5 | |
| Europe | 16 | 50% | 6 | 8 | |
| North America | 3 | 7% | 1 | 1 | |
| Oceania | 1 | 3% | 1 | 0 | |
| South America | 2 | 13% | 2 | 2 |
| Team | Region | Method of qualification | Date of qualification | Finals appearance | Previous appearance | Previous best performance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | 2018 Champion | 2nd | 2018 | Champion (2018) | ||
| Asia | Host team | 3rd | 2014, 2016 | Quarterfinalist (2014, 2016) | ||
| Europe | European Group B Winner | 2nd | 2016 | Group stage (2016) | ||
| Europe | European Group C Winner | 3rd | 2016, 2018 | Fourth (2018) | ||
| Europe | European Group A Winner | 1st | ||||
| Asia | Asia Football Cup Winner | 3rd | 2016, 2018 | Group Stage (2016) | ||
| Asia | Asia Football Cup Third Place | 2nd | 2018 | Group Stage (2018) | ||
| North America | Selected | 18 August 2023 | 1st | |||
| Africa | Selected | 2nd | 2018 | Group Stage (2018) | ||
| Europe | Selected | 4th | 2014, 2016, 2018 | Champion (2016) | ||
| Asia | Selected | 2nd | 2016, 2018 | Runners-up (2016) | ||
| Asia | Selected | 1st | ||||
| Europe | Selected | 1st | ||||
| Europe | Selected | 2nd | 2014 | Fourth (2014) | ||
| Europe | Selected | 1st | ||||
| South America | Selected | 1st | ||||
| South America | Selected | 1st | ||||