This is a complete list of national teams in women's association football, arranged alphabetically within their confederations.
This section lists the current:
FIFA members are eligible to enter the FIFA Women's World Cup and matches between them are recognized as official international matches. Based on their match results over the previous four-year period, the FIFA Women's World Rankings, published monthly by FIFA, compare the relative strengths of the national teams.
Some national teams that are members of a confederation but not FIFA members compete in confederation-level and subregional tournaments. These teams, however, are not allowed to participate in the World Cup.
The six confederations are:
FIFA runs the Women's World Cup as a tournament for national teams to find the world champion. Each confederation also runs its own championship to find the best team from among its members:
Due to the geographical size of Asia, the AFC is subdivided into five sub-federations:
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Due to the geographical size of Africa, CAF is divided into five regional federations:
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The CONCACAF federation is divided into three regional federations that have responsibility for part of the region's geographical area:
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