FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph[1]) 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.
The following codes refer to countries or dependent territories 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.
The following codes are obsolete because a country has ceased to exist (e.g. by merging into another or splitting into several countries), changed its name or its code: