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This is a list of the men's national association football teams in the world. There are more nations with football teams than for any other sport, with teams representing all UN member nations except the Marshall Islands, as well as several dependent territories, sub-national entities and semi-recognized sovereign states. This list divdies teams into two main groups: * Teams which are either members of ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (FIFA) the world's football governing body (209 teams), or a FIFA-affiliated continental confederation (13 teams) * Teams outside FIFA which nonetheless represent a recognized or semi-recognized sovereign state (12 teams). This list excludes other teams, which generally play outside of FIFA's recognition. Excluded teams include those who represent ethnic groups, sub-national entities and dependent territories other than those recognized by FIFA or its confederations, competitors at the Island Games, unrecognized states, separatist movements and pseudo or micro-nations. == Members of FIFA affiliated confederations == This section lists the current: * 209 men's national football teams affiliated to FIFA, through their national football associations. * 13 men's national football teams who are members or associate members of one of the FIFA affiliated continental confederations, but who are not members of FIFA.〔These are displayed in the main list in ''italics''.〕 FIFA members are eligible to enter the FIFA World Cup and matches between them are recognized as official international matches. Based on their match results over the previous four-year period, the FIFA World Rankings, published monthly by FIFA, compare the relative strengths of the national teams. National teams who are members (full or associate) of their confederation, but do not have membership of FIFA, are able to compete in confederation championships. The six confederations are: * Asia – ''Asian Football Confederation'' (AFC) * Africa – ''Confédération Africaine de Football'' (CAF) * North and Central America and the Caribbean – ''Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football'' (CONCACAF) * South America – ''Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol'' (CONMEBOL) * Oceania – ''Oceania Football Confederation'' (OFC) * Europe – ''Union of European Football Associations'' (UEFA) FIFA runs the World Cup as a tournament for national teams to find the world champion. Each confederation also runs its own championship to find the best team from among its members: *AFC – Asian Cup *CAF – Africa Cup of Nations *CONCACAF – CONCACAF Gold Cup *CONMEBOL – Copa América *OFC – OFC Nations Cup *UEFA – European Championship 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of men's national association football teams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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