2018 ConIFA World Football Cup
The 2018 ConIFA World Football Cup was the third edition of the ConIFA World Football Cup, an international football tournament for states, minorities, stateless peoples and regions unaffiliated with FIFA organised by ConIFA.
Contents
Host Selection
Hosts
Participating teams
Qualification
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The process of qualification for the World Football Cup is laid out in a set of criteria published by ConIFA at its 2017 annual general meeting, which goes into the various ways by which teams can qualify.[1]
- Host - Providing at least 10 places are available for other qualifiers, then all hosts will qualify automatically. If there are less than 10 other places available, then the number of automatic host places is calculated by the total number of places in the tournament minus 10.
- World Football Cup Holder - The current holder of the World Football Cup qualifies automatically.
- Continental champion - If a ConIFA continental championship is held after the previous WFC, the winner of such a tournament qualifies.
- Qualification tournament - Any member of ConIFA has the right to request that a tournament it hosts be sanctioned as a qualifier, providing it is held between 1 January of the year of the previous WFC, and 31 December of the year before the next WFC, and consists of at least three ConIFA members.
- Supporters' Choice, Wild Card and Qualification points - remaining places are distributed in three ways;
- In the December before the WFC, an online popular vote is conducted in which the winner receives a place in the next WFC;
- The ConIFA Executive Committee issues a Wild Card place to a team that has not yet qualified in the December before the WFC;
- Remaining places are distributed according to the final positions in the various ConIFA continental rankings according to their accumulated ranking points. If two or more teams have the same number of qualification points, qualification will be determined by the ConIFA World Rankings.
| Qualification points | |
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| Opposition Factor (OF) | Result Factor (RF) |
| ConIFA Member = 3 | Win = 3 |
| Other international opposition = 2 |
Draw = 2 |
| Any other opposition = 1 | Defeat = 1 |
| Points for a single match = OF × RF | |
| Matches played in WFC or continental championships do not count towards qualification points totals |
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By the criteria set out, the qualification process began in January 2016, when Western Armenia played its first official game against the reserve team of the French club Olympique de Marseille.[2] The first team to qualify automatically was Tamil Eelam, by winning the single match ConIFA Challenger Cup against the Romani people in March 2016. Following this, two further, multi-team competitions were awarded qualification status by ConIFA, the Hungary Heritage Cup, played between four ConIFA members representing the Hungarian diaspora, and the World Unity Cup, which was a tournament containing teams representing a number of displaced peoples.[3] The winners of both of these tournaments were guaranteed qualification for the World Football Cup.
Qualified teams
| Team | Region | Method of qualification |
Date of qualification |
Finals appearance |
Previous appearance |
Previous best performance |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Tamil Eelam |
Asia | ConIFA Challenger Cup winners | 13 March 2016 | 2nd | 2014 | 11th place (2014) | |
 Abkhazia |
Europe | ConIFA World Football Cup Winners | 6 June 2016 | 3rd | 2016 | Winners (2016) | |
 Felvidék |
Europe | Hungary Heritage Cup winners | 3 August 2016 | 1st | N/A | N/A |
Matches
Final positions
References
External links
| Tournaments | |
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| Qualification | |
| 2016 World Football Cup teams | |
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Notes: There was no qualification for the 2014 World Football Cup as places were given by invitation only.
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