List of FIFA country codes facts for kids

FIFA assigns a three-letter country code (more properly termed a trigram or trigraph) 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

There are currently 211 FIFA members, each with its own unique country code:

Country	Code
Afghanistan	AFG
Albania	ALB
Algeria	ALG
American Samoa	ASA
Andorra	AND
Angola	ANG
Anguilla	AIA
Antigua and Barbuda	ATG
Argentina	ARG
Armenia	ARM
Aruba	ARU
Australia	AUS
Austria	AUT
Azerbaijan	AZE
Bahamas	BAH
Bahrain	BHR
Bangladesh	BAN
Barbados	BRB
Belarus	BLR
Belgium	BEL
Belize	BLZ
Benin	BEN
Bermuda	BER
Bhutan	BHU
Bolivia	BOL
Bosnia and Herzegovina	BIH
Botswana	BOT
Brazil	BRA
British Virgin Islands	VGB
Brunei	BRU
Bulgaria	BUL
Burkina Faso	BFA
Burundi	BDI
Cambodia	CAM
Cameroon	CMR
Canada	CAN
Cape Verde	CPV
Cayman Islands	CAY
Central African Republic	CTA
Chad	CHA
Chile	CHI
China	CHN
Chinese Taipei	TPE
Colombia	COL
Comoros	COM
Congo	CGO
Cook Islands	COK
Costa Rica	CRC
Croatia	CRO
Cuba	CUB
Curaçao	CUW
Cyprus	CYP
Czech Republic	CZE

Country	Code
Denmark	DEN
Djibouti	DJI
Dominica	DMA
Dominican Republic	DOM
DR Congo	COD
Ecuador	ECU
Egypt	EGY
El Salvador	SLV
England	ENG
Equatorial Guinea	EQG
Eritrea	ERI
Estonia	EST
Swaziland	SWZ
Ethiopia	ETH
Faroe Islands	FRO
Fiji	FIJ
Finland	FIN
France	FRA
Gabon	GAB
Gambia	GAM
Georgia	GEO
Germany	GER
Ghana	GHA
Gibraltar	GIB
Greece	GRE
Grenada	GRN
Guam	GUM
Guatemala	GUA
Guinea	GUI
Guinea-Bissau	GNB
Guyana	GUY
Haiti	HAI
Honduras	HON
Hong Kong	HKG
Hungary	HUN
Iceland	ISL
India	IND
Indonesia	IDN
Iran	IRN
Iraq	IRQ
Israel	ISR
Italy	ITA
Ivory Coast	CIV
Jamaica	JAM
Japan	JPN
Jordan	JOR
Kazakhstan	KAZ
Kenya	KEN
Kosovo	KOS
Kuwait	KUW
Kyrgyzstan	KGZ
Laos	LAO
Latvia	LVA

Country	Code
Lebanon	LBN
Lesotho	LES
Liberia	LBR
Libya	LBY
Liechtenstein	LIE
Lithuania	LTU
Luxembourg	LUX
Macau	MAC
Madagascar	MAD
Malawi	MWI
Malaysia	MAS
Maldives	MDV
Mali	MLI
Malta	MLT
Mauritania	MTN
Mauritius	MRI
Mexico	MEX
Moldova	MDA
Mongolia	MNG
Montenegro	MNE
Montserrat	MSR
Morocco	MAR
Mozambique	MOZ
Myanmar	MYA
Namibia	NAM
Nepal	NEP
Netherlands	NED
New Caledonia	NCL
New Zealand	NZL
Nicaragua	NCA
Niger	NIG
Nigeria	NGA
North Korea	PRK
Macedonia	MKD
Northern Ireland	NIR
Norway	NOR
Oman	OMA
Pakistan	PAK
[[|Palestinian National Authority]]	PLE
Panama	PAN
Papua New Guinea	PNG
Paraguay	PAR
Peru	PER
Philippines	PHI
Poland	POL
Portugal	POR
Puerto Rico	PUR
Qatar	QAT
Republic of Ireland	IRL
Romania	ROU
Russia	RUS
Rwanda	RWA
Saint Kitts and Nevis	SKN

Country	Code
Saint Lucia	LCA
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	VIN
Samoa	SAM
San Marino	SMR
São Tomé and Príncipe	STP
Saudi Arabia	KSA
Scotland	SCO
Senegal	SEN
Serbia	SRB
Seychelles	SEY
Sierra Leone	SLE
Singapore	SGP
Slovakia	SVK
Slovenia	SVN
Solomon Islands	SOL
Somalia	SOM
South Africa	RSA
South Korea	KOR
South Sudan	SSD
Spain	ESP
Sri Lanka	SRI
Sudan	SDN
Suriname	SUR
Sweden	SWE
Switzerland	SUI
Syria	SYR
Tahiti	TAH
Tajikistan	TJK
Tanzania	TAN
Thailand	THA
East Timor	TLS
Togo	TOG
Tonga	TGA
Trinidad and Tobago	TRI
Tunisia	TUN
Turkey	TUR
Turkmenistan	TKM
Turks and Caicos Islands	TCA
Uganda	UGA
Ukraine	UKR
United Arab Emirates	UAE
United States	USA
Uruguay	URU
U.S. Virgin Islands	VIR
Uzbekistan	UZB
Vanuatu	VAN
Venezuela	VEN
Vietnam	VIE
Wales	WAL
Yemen	YEM
Zambia	ZAM
Zimbabwe	ZIM

Non-FIFA member codes

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:

Country	Code	Confederation
Bonaire	BES	CONCACAF
	BOE
French Guiana	GUF	CONCACAF
Great Britain	GBR
Guadeloupe	GLP	CONCACAF
Kiribati	KIR	OFC
Martinique	MTQ	CONCACAF
Niue	NIU	OFC
Northern Cyprus	NCY
	TRNC
Northern Mariana Islands	MNP	AFC
	NMI
Réunion	REU	CAF
Saint Martin	MAF	CONCACAF
	SMN
Sint Maarten	SXM	CONCACAF
	SMA
Tuvalu	TUV	OFC
Western Sahara	ESH
	SADR
Zanzibar	ZAN	CAF

Irregular codes

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.

Country	Code
Basque Country	BSQ
Catalonia	CAT
Micronesia	FSM
Greenland	GRL
Marshall Islands	MHL
Monaco	MON
	MCO
Nauru	NRU
Palau	PLW
Saint Barthélemy	BLM
Saint Pierre and Miquelon	SPM
Saint Helena	SHN
Transnistria	PMR
Tokelau	TOK
Vatican City	VAT
Wallis and Futuna	WLF
	WAF

Obsolete country codes

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:

Country	Code
Bohemia	BOH
British Guiana	BGU
British India	BIN
Burma	BUR
Central African Republic	CAF
Ceylon	CEY
CIS	CIS
Czechoslovakia	TCH
Dahomey	DAH
Dutch East Indies	INH
East Germany	GDR
FR Yugoslavia	FRY
Gold Coast	GOC
Ireland	EIR
Kosovo	KVX

Country	Code
Lebanon	LIB
Malaysia	MAL
Netherlands	HOL
Netherlands Antilles	ANT
New Hebrides	HEB
North Vietnam	VNO
North Yemen	YAR
Northern Rhodesia	NRH
Palestine, British Mandate	PAL
Rhodesia	RHO
Romania	ROM
Saar	SAA
Serbia and Montenegro	SCG
Siam	SIA
Singapore	SIN

Country	Code
South Vietnam	VSO
South Yemen	YMD
Southern Rhodesia	SRH
Soviet Union	URS
Sudan	SUD
Suriname	NGY
Taiwan	TAI
Tanganyika	TAA
United Arab Republic	UAR
Upper Volta	UPV
West Germany	FRG
Samoa	WSM
Yugoslavia	YUG
Zaire	ZAI

See also

In Spanish: Anexo:Códigos de la FIFA para niños

• Comparison of alphabetic country codes
• List of FIFA Member Associations
• List of IOC country codes
• List of ISO country codes