2021 FANA Confederations Cup

2021 FANA Confederations Cup

Tournament details
Host country	Namimori Qasentria
Teams	8 (from 7 confederations)
Venue(s)	16 (in 15 host cities)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	TBA

The 2021 FANA Confederations Cup will be the second FANA Confederations Cup, the annual international men's football championship contested by the national football teams of the member associations of FANA. The 8 competing teams were selected to be either the current World Cup Champions or one of the seven Regional Cup winners.

Host selection

The procedure for selecting the Confederations Cup host city were tied along the selection for the 2021 FANA World Cup.

The bidding for the 2021 FANA World Cup started in March 2021 with the national associations having until 18 April 2021 to register their interest in hosting the event. A total of three biddings were submitted to FANA for the hosting of the event.

The members of FANA started voting on the hosts of the event on 13 June 2021. The results were unveiled on 23 June 2021, with the Namisentrian bid securing the hosting rights for the event, while the Ximbalan/Ulikanan bid came in second.

The voting results were:

2021 FANA bidding

Bidders	Result
	Votes	%
Namisentria	27	77.14%
Ximbala / Ulikana	5	14.29%
Jarea	3	8.57%

Qualification

Main article: 2021 FANA World Cup qualification

The allocation of slots for each confederation was discussed by the FANA Executive Committee in September 2020 after the FANA Congress. The committee decided that the allocation used in 2020 would be slightly modified for this year's tournament. The slot allocation was the following:

• UWFA (South and Central Wulfor): 1
• FCS (South and Central Sakoda): 1
• NFC (North Sakoda and Wulfor): 1
• KFASS (North Serica): 1
• COSSAF (South Serica): 1
• CLF (Latinica): 1
• LTFC (Lakadasia and Tritonia): 1
• 2020 FANA World Cup Champion: 1

Teams

Country	Confederation	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in tournament
Hansaaria	FCS	2020 FANA World Cup winners	27 September 2020	0 (debut)
Hwaesonna	LTFC	2021 LTFC Regional Cup winners	19 March 2021	0 (debut)
Aquia	CLF	2021 CLF Regional Cup winners	27 March 2021	1 (2017)
	KFASS	2021 KFASS Regional Cup winners	10 April 2021	0 (debut)
Fordia	NFC	2021 NFC Regional Cup winners	17 April 2021	1 (2017)
Qasentria	COSSAF	2021 COSSAF Regional Cup winners	24 April 2021	0 (debut)
Ninelie	FCS	2021 FCS Regional Cup winners	1 May 2021	0 (debut)
Prunia	UWFA	2021 UWFARegional Cup winners	15 May 2021	1 (2017)

Draw

The draw took place on X July 2021, in Chikara City, Namimori. All 8 participating teams were drawn into the 2 groups for the group stage based on the 4 pots that they were divided into. Due to the host countries not taking part into the competition (unless they would win their regional cup, which is Qasentria's case), Group A was drawn to be held in Qasentria and Group B in Namimori.

Pot 1	Pot 2

Venues

The event will be hosted in 6 venues across X different cities of the two hosting nations. Each country has selected 3 stadiums for the event. All the hosting countries selected their capital cities as one of their cities of choice (Chikara City for Namimori and Marianne for Qasentria).

Asuka	Chikara City	Marianne
Asuka Stadium by Seiji	Chikara Serican Main Stadium	Marianne International Stadium	Suitsu Antlers Football Stadium
Capacity: 21,600	Capacity: 53,864	Capacity: 68,000	Capacity: 40,728
Cyrille-Toman	Maehwa Cyrille-Toman Isogai Maehara Mori Asuka Chikara City Sunwoo Marianne Hwidol Mairault Kinsla Seishin Hana Gaoxiang		Gaoxiang
Mizuno Stadium Veludo			Gaoxiang Lotus Flower Stadium
Capacity: 39,694			Capacity: 100,000
Isogai			Hana
Isogai Dome			Hana Mikuni Stadium
Capacity: 40,071			Capacity: 15,300
Maehara	Maehwa	Hwidol	Kinsia
National Namimorish Stadium	Obikuni Ballpark	The Winged Stadium	City Light Stadium
Capacity: 55,000	Capacity: 35,000	Capacity: 45,000	Capacity: 20,000
Mori	Sunwoo	Mairault	Seishin
Sarafura Stadium	Sunwoo International Stadium	Pikara Marugame Stadium	Illenium Stadium
Capacity: 43,000	Capacity: 80,000	Capacity: 30,099	Capacity: 40,535