Soccer in the

world
 • Asian Football Confederation (AFC; 47
members)
• Confederation of African Football (CAF;
56 members)
• Confederation of North, Central
American and Caribbean Association
Confederations Football (CONCACAF; 41 members)
• Confederación Sudamericana de
Fútbol (CONMEBOL; 10 members)
• Oceania Football Confederation (OFC;
14 members)
• Union of European Football
Associations (UEFA; 55 members)
Distribution of
confederations
Most important Confederations
Competitions between clubs
 MOST IMPORTANT
TOURNAMENTS

• CONCACHAMPIONS (LIGA DE
CAMPEONES)
• MLS (MAJOR LEAGUE OF SOCCER USA)
• LIGA MX (México)
MOST IMPORTANT TOURNAMENTS

• COPA LIBERTADORES
• SUPERLIGA ARGENTINA DE FÚTBOL
• CAMPEONATO BRASILEÑO Do SERIE A
MOST IMPORTANT TOURNAMENTS

• CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
• LaLiga (Spain)
• Serie A (Italy)
• Bundesliga (Germany)
• Premier League (England)
• Eredivise (Holland)
• Ligue 1 (France)
Club World Cup
• The current format of the tournament
involves seven teams competing for the
title at venues within the host nation
over a period of about two weeks; the
winners of that year's AFC Champions
League (Asia), CAF Champions League
(Africa), CONCACAF Champions League
(North America), Copa Libertadores
(South America), OFC Champions League
(Oceania) and UEFA Champions League
(Europe), along with the host nation's
national champions, participate in a
straight knock-out tournament.
 Competitions
between countries
 Tournaments and confederations

Golden Cup Copa América EUROCOPA

(CONCACAF) (CONMEBOL) (UEFA)

Africa Cup of OFC Nations AFC Asian Cup

Nations (CAF) Cup (OFC) (AFC)
FIFA Confederations
Cup

• The FIFA Confederations Cup was an international

association football tournament for men's
national teams, held every four years by FIFA. It
was contested by the holders of each of the six
(AFC, CAF, CONCACAF, CONMEBOL, OFC and UEFA)
continental championships, along with the current
FIFA World Cup holder and the host nation, to
bring the number of teams up to eight.
World Cup
• The FIFA World Cup, often simply called the
World Cup, is an international association
football competition contested by the
senior men's national teams of the
members of the Fédération Internationale
de Football Association (FIFA), the sport's
global governing body. The championship
has been awarded every four years since
the inaugural tournament in 1930, except
in 1942 and 1946 when it was not held
because of the Second World War. The
current champion is France, which won its
second title at the 2018 tournament in
Russia.