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This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is the world's most important governing body for association football. A majority of national association football teams in the world are members of FIFA or one of its affiliated continental confederations.
Association football is the official name of the sport governed by the International Federation of Association football . It is known in some parts of the world as " soccer "; a derivative of the word "association".
Official logos for quadannual stagings of the FIFA World Cup, an international association football tournament contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), the sport's global governing body.
This is a list of lists of association football clubs from all over the world. Each of the articles linked from here lists clubs playing at the highest level in each country; for clubs playing at lower divisions, see separate linked articles.
PFC Panamerican Football Confederation - 24 members - founded in 1946 was the not official fusion of CONMEBOL, CCCF and NAFC and represented teams from Americas. The main tournament was the Panamerican Championship , when PFC was dissolved, both CCCF and NAFC both were merged to form CONCACAF
Football association: Gibraltar Football Association; Top-level league: Gibraltar Premier Division; UEFA ranking: 54th [6] Soccerway profile: here; The Gibraltar Football Association was founded in 1895, making it one of the ten oldest active football associations in the world. League football has been organized by the GFA since 1905.
Club names containing a reference to Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Turkish field marshal, revolutionary statesman, and founder of the Republic of Turkey. Turkey Ata Spor Kulubu: Ajax: Club names containing a reference to Ajax the Great or Ajax the Lesser. The South African and American clubs are so named due to their affiliation with AFC Ajax of the ...
By the end of 1984, the NASL had folded, leaving the U.S. without a single professional-level outdoor soccer league. [29] The 1986 World Cup was hosted by Mexico after Colombia withdrew from contention due to economic concerns and the United States lost their subsequent bid to host. In the last game of CONCACAF qualifying for the 1986 World Cup ...