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] 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. [2] On 9 September 2024, it was announced that Kurdistan would no longer host the tournament and had been suspended by CONIFA, no new host for the 2025 event was announced but an unofficial statement by the CONIFA President shared through social media suggested that Brazilian state of São Paulo was to become the new host.[3][4]
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.[6] 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. [7]
