The International Federation of Association Football (In French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association), commonly known as FIFA, is the international governing body of association football. FIFA is responsible for the organization and governance of football’s major international tournaments, most notably the FIFA World Cup, held since 1930.


FIFA Confederations

In international soccer, the world is broken up into six regions and the countries in each region are grouped together. These groups, which are called Confederations, are responsible for overseeing the game in their section of the world.

The six Confederations recogized by FIFA include:
- AFC - Asian Football Confederation in Asia and Australia
- CAF - Confédération Africaine de Football in Africa
- CONCACAF - Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football
- CONMEBOL - Confederación Sudamericana de Fútbol in South America
- OFC - Oceania Football Confederation in Oceania
- UEFA - Union of European Football Associations in Europe


National Teams That Have Participated in the World Cup by FIFA Confederation

As of the 2022, 79 national teams from all six confederations have participated in the FIFA World Cup.



Most of the national teams that have participated in the World Cup have been from the Union of European Football Associations in Europe (UEFA) Confederation, while only one team from the Oceania Football Confederation in Oceania (OFC) Confederation has participated.


Number of Participations in the World Cup

The national teams that have participated in the most World Cup tournaments appear to be spatially clustered in the CONMEBOL (South America) and UEFA (Europe) Confederations.