2021 FANA World Cup qualification (NFC)

2021 FANA World Cup qualification (NFC)

Tournament details
Host countries	Qualifications: Various Regional Cup: Lidonia
Dates	Qualifications: 4 December 2020 - 19 February 2021 2021 NFC Cup: 12 April 2021 - 17 April 2021
Teams	18 (from 1 confederation)
Tournament statistics
Matches played	72 // 64 (Q) / 8 (RC)

The North Sakodan and North Wulforian section of the 2021 FANA World Cup qualification acted as qualifiers for the 2021 FANA World Cup and the NFC knockout stage, for national teams that are members of Northern Football Confederation (NFC). A total of 8.5 spots were available for NFC teams in the final tournament. One country got the opportunity to qualify via an inter-confederation playoff. 8 spots in total were also available for NFC teams in the regional cup, held in Lidonia.

First Round

Seeding

The seeding was based on the FANA World Rankings of November 2020. The 18 teams were seeded into 5 pots with 4 countries in the first 4 and 2 countries in the last pot.

• Pot 1 contains the teams ranked 1–4.
• Pot 2 contains the teams ranked 5–8.
• Pot 3 contains the teams ranked 9–12.
• Pot 4 contains the teams ranked 13–16.
• Pot 5 contains the teams ranked 17–18.

Each five-team group contained one team from each of the six pots, while the last four-team group contained one team from each of the first four pots.

Teams were allocated to seeding pots as follows (October 2020 FANA Rankings shown in second column; the national teams which eventually qualified for the final tournament are presented in bold; the national teams who took part in the play-offs are presented in italic).

Pot 1 Team Pos Lidonia 5 Drevona 7 Dýria 12 Fordia 15

Pot 2 Team Pos Levalle 15 Decoria 29 Lanovina 32 Ruyjin Republic 33

Pot 3 Team Pos Fyor 39 Sylvan 46 Shkeera 49 Orangina 60

Pot 4 Team Pos Vikyirie 60 Zakaslovia 60 Kingdovania 60 Atlandia 60

Pot 5 Team Pos Danskanksova 60 Asgreeb 60

Summary

  Top 2 of each group qualified directly for the 2021 FANA World Cup and to the NFC Regional Cup

  Other teams were eliminated after the first round

Group A	Group B	Group C	Group D
Fordia Lanovina	Drevona Decoria	Lidonia Levalle	Dýria Ruyjin Republic
Asgreeb Zakaslovia Orangina	Sylvan Danskanksova Kingdovania	Shkeera Atlandia	Fyor Vikyirie

Groups

Group A

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fordia	8	7	1	0	15	1	+14	22	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and regional cup.		—	1–0	1–0	3–0	1–0
2	Lanovina	8	4	2	2	11	5	+6	14			1–3	—	3–0	1–0	4–1
3	Asgreeb	8	4	2	2	8	6	+2	14			0–0	0–0	—	3–2	2–0
4	Zakaslovia	8	1	1	6	6	17	−11	4			0–3	0–2	0–2	—	3–3
5	Orangina	8	0	2	6	4	15	−11	2			0–3	0–0	0–1	0–1	—

Group B

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Drevona	8	6	0	2	17	6	+11	18	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and regional cup.		—	1–0	3–0	2–0	3–0
2	Decoria	8	5	1	2	16	9	+7	16			2–0	—	1–3	1–0	3–1
3	Sylvan	8	4	2	2	9	7	+2	14	Advance to inter-confederation play-offs.		2–1	1–1	—	2–0	1–0
4	Danskanksova	8	3	0	5	8	15	−7	9			2–4	2–5	1–0	—	1–0
5	Kingdovania	8	0	1	7	3	16	−13	1			0–3	1–3	0–0	1–2	—

Group C

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Lidonia	6	5	1	0	11	2	+9	16	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and regional cup.		—	1–0	3–0	2–0
2	Levalle	6	4	0	2	11	4	+7	12			1–3	—	4–0	1–0
3	Shkeera	6	2	1	3	11	12	−1	7			1–1	0–3	—	5–0
4	Atlandia	6	0	0	6	1	16	−15	0			0–1	0–2	1–5	—

Group D

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Dýria	6	4	1	1	14	4	+10	13	Advance to 2021 FANA World Cup and regional cup.		—	3–0	2–1	4–0
2	Ruyjin Republic	6	4	1	1	8	5	+3	13			1–1	—	3–1	3–0
3	Fyor	6	3	0	3	10	7	+3	9			2–1	0–1	—	2–0
4	Vikyirie	6	0	0	6	0	16	−16	0			0–3	0–1	0–4	—

Qualified teams

The following eight teams from NFC qualified for the final tournament.

Team	Qualified as	Qualified on	Previous appearances in FANA World Cup1
Fordia	Group A winner	29 January 2021	6 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Lanovina	Group A runner-up	19 February 2021	5 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)
Drevona	Group B winner	12 February 2021	3 (2018, 2019, 2020)
Decoria	Group B runner-up	19 February 2021	5 (2016, 2017, 2020)
Lidonia	Group C winner	5 February 2021	4 (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Levalle	Group C runner-up	12 February 2021	3 (2018, 2019, 2020)
Dýria	Group D winner	5 February 2021	6 (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020)
Ruyjin Republic	Group D runner-up	12 February 2021	2 (2017, 2020)
Sylvan	FCS v NFC play-off winners	2 April 2021	2 (2018, 2019)

¹ Bold indicates champions for that year. Italic indicates hosts for that year.

NFC Regional Cup

The 2021 NFC Regional Cup will be the first edition of the NFC Cup, a regional competition between members of the Northern Football Confederation, the competition will be hosted in Lidonia. The competition serves to determine which country would represent NFC in the upcoming 2021 FANA Confederations Cup, set to be hosted in Namimori & Qasentria.

Qualified Countries

Seeded Teams (1 to 4 in the 2021 NFC Qualifications Ranking)

• Fordia
• Drevona
• Lidonia
• Dýria

Unseeded Teams (5 to 8 in the 2021 NFC Qualifications Ranking)

• Decoria
• Lanovina
• Ruyjin Republic
• Levalle

Knock Out Round

	Quarter-finals				Semi-finals				Final
	12 April - Nakopek
	Lidonia	5
					15 April - Estport
	Ruyjin Republic	0
					Lidonia	1 (2)
	12 April - Dunava
					Fordia	1 (3)
	Fordia	3
									17 April - Nakopek
	Decoria	0
									Fordia	3
	13 April - Estport
									Drevona	2
	Drevona	4
					15 April - Dunava
	Lanovina	0
					Drevona	3
	13 April - Illeven
					Dýria	1			Third place
	Dýria	2
									16 April - Illeven
	Levalle	0
									Lidonia	1 (1)
									Dýria	1 (3)

See also

• 2021 FANA World Cup
• 2021 FANA World Cup qualification