FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigramme or trigram) to each of its member and non-member countries. These are the official codes used by FIFA and its continental confederations (AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA) as name abbreviations of countries and dependent areas, in official competitions.
FIFA member codes
See also: List of FIFA Member Associations
There are currently 211 FIFA members, each one with its unique country code.[1][2]
The following codes refer to countries or dependent areas that are currently not affiliated with FIFA, but whose codes either appear in the FIFA results database, or are used regularly by confederation websites.
The following codes refer to countries or dependent areas that are currently not affiliated with FIFA. Even though they are members or associate members of their regional confederations, these codes are not regularly used in communications of FIFA.
Main article: Comparison of alphabetic country codes
For most countries, FIFA codes are the same as both the International Olympic Committee country codes used for the Olympic Games and the ISO 3166 country codes. When these two are different, FIFA usually chooses one of the two, and for a few countries FIFA uses a distinct code. Codes that differ from the FIFA code are coloured in light red.
^Kosovo has not officially been assigned an ISO trigramme, however the placeholder code XKX is used by several organisations for the country
^Used ANT until 10 October 2010, removed after the dissolution of the Netherlands Antilles
External links
FIFA Country Codes – list maintained by the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation Usenet group.
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