2021 FANA Confederations Cup
Tournament details | |
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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 third 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:
Bidders | Result | |
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Votes | % | |
Namisentria | 27 | 77.14% |
Ximbala / Ulikana | 5 | 14.29% |
Jarea | 3 | 8.57% |
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[1] |
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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 | 2 (2016, 2017) |
Niolskiaj | 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 | 2 (2016, 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 |
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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).
- ↑ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.