What is List of men's national association football teams?
{{about|men's national teams|a list of women's national teams|List of women's national association football teams}} This is a '''list of the men's national association football (soccer) teams''' in the world. There are more nations with [[association football|football]] teams than for any other [[sport]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Brown|first1=Michael|title=Biggest Global Sports|url=http://biggestglobalsports.com/worlds-biggest-sports/4580873435|access-date=11 September 2015|archive-date=10 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150810010824/http://biggestglobalsports.com/worlds-biggest-sports/4580873435|url-status=dead}}</ref> Teams represent 191 of the 193 [[United Nations|UN]] member states, as well as several [[dependent territory|dependent territories]], sub-national entities, and [[list of states with limited recognition|states who are not members of the United Nations]]. This list divides teams into two main groups: * Teams which are either members of '''FIFA''' (International Federation of Association Football) the world's football governing body (211 teams), or have membership in a FIFA-affiliated continental confederation without being members of FIFA (12 teams). * Teams who are not members of FIFA or any continental federation, but which represent [[list of sovereign states|sovereign states]]. This group includes United Nations members and observer states, as well as states who are not members of the UN (11 teams). This list excludes other teams that generally play [[Non-FIFA football]]. Excluded teams include those who represent [[ethnic group]]s, sub-national entities, [[list of active separatist movements|separatist movements]], and [[micronation|micro-nations]]. == Members of FIFA affiliated confederations == [[File:World Map FIFA.svg|thumb|400px|Map of the World with the six confederations: {{legend|#ffb6c1|[[Asian Football Confederation|Asian Football Confederation (AFC)]]}} {{legend|#deb887|[[ Confederation of African Football (CAF)]]}} {{legend|#db7093|[[CONCACAF|Confederation of N