The 2024 CONIFA World Football Cup would have been the fourth edition of the CONIFA World Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by CONIFA. On 9 May 2023, Kurdistan Region was announced as the tournament host, but was removed in September 2024 following their suspension by CONIFA.
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. On 9 September 2024, it was announced that Kurdistan would no longer host the tournament and had been suspended. Statement by the CONIFA president shared through social media suggested that Brazilian state of São Paulo was to become the new host.
On 18 December 2024, CONIFA announced that the rescheduled 2025 tournament would be cancelled, after potential host São Paulo failed to show proof of organisational or financial ability. CONIFA announced that the next World Football Cup would be held in either 2026 or 2027.
Host selection 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. Following the suspension of Kurdistan Football Association by CONIFA, the former lost its hosting rights. Therefore, the 2024 CONIFA World Cup was cancelled.
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. 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. https://twitter.com/kanakapowawae/status/1686468773749063682?s=20
Continent ActivemembersBased on presentation during 2024 Annual General Meeting Percentage ProposedSpots ActualSpotsAfrica 1 10% 1 1Asia 6 17% 2 5Europe 16 50% 6 8North America 3 7% 1 1Oceania 1 3% 1 0South America 2 13% 2 2
Qualified teams Team Region Method ofqualification Date ofqualification Finalsappearance Previousappearance Previous bestperformance 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) ANBM 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) Kashmir Asia Selected 1st Europe Selected 1st Europe Selected 2nd 2014 Fourth (2014) Canton Ticino Europe Selected 1st São Paulo South America Selected 1st Maule Sur South America Selected 1st
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