FMF World Cup qualification

FMF World Cup qualification is the name given to the confederational rounds of qualifying matches in order for member nations to earn a place at that year's FMF World Cup.

History

The qualification rounds were introduced for the second World Cup, held in Novatainia and Tokidoki. The inaugural tournament was application-only, with no competitive qualifying matches being played.

Format

Each of the four FMF confederations is permitted a certain number of qualifying berths at each World Cup, which must be filled by affiliated members of that confederation by narrowing-down the amount of eligible nations via group stages, automatic knock-out or a combination of both. The amount of berths each confederation receives each year is decided by the number of affiliated members in each, and the respective strengths of those members' national teams. The EMUFA has received the most, or joint-most, berths in all but three tournaments since qualification began.

Previous years

Year	Host(s)	AEFA qualifiers	CTFA qualifiers	EMUFA qualifiers	WMFA qualifiers
2007 Details	Novatainia  Tokidoki	Gaia  Hurmu  Jamzinia  Leon and Venezia  New-Empire  Novatainia  Tokidoki	Alexandria  Matbaa	Craitland  Kataria  Passas  Riponia  Taesong	Beaugium  New Brittania
		4 + 2 hosts + 1 runner-up	2	5	2
2008 Details	Amokolia	Hurmu  Stormark  Toketi  United Empire	Alexandria  Kavalos	Bobalania  Craitland  Hamland  Interland  New South Vietnam  Nova England  Passas	Amokolia  Batavia  Shireroth
		4	2	6 + 1 holder	2 + 1 host
2009 Details	Alexandria	Hurmu  Novatainia  Toketi	Alexandria  Monovia  Zandarijn	Bobalania  Craitland  Hamland  Interland  Nova England  Passas  West Ocia	Batavia  Beaugium  Tellia
		3	2 + 1 host	6 + 1 holder	3
2010 Details	Hamland	Holzborg  Novatainia  Stormark  Toketi	Alexandria  Monovia  Natopia	Craitland  Hamland  Interland  Nova England  Passas  Valencia	Batavia  Beaugium  Tellia
		4	2 + 1 holder	5 + 1 host	3
2011 Details	Shireroth	Antica  Babkha  Toketi  Victoria	Alexandria  Natopia	Craitland  Hamland  Interland  Nova England  Passas  Taeland	Ashkenatza (by play-off)  Batavia  Shireroth  Tellia
		4	2.5	5 + 1 holder	2.5 + 1 host
2012 Details	Antica	Antica  Mahoz HaSephardim  Novatainia  Stormark  Toketi	Alexandria  Natopia	Craitland  Hamland  Interland  Mercury  Nordic Union  Ocia	Batavia  Shireroth  Tellia
		4 + 1 host	2	5 + 1 holder	3
2013 Details	Zandarijn  Hammish Monovia	Hurmu  Mahoz HaSephardim  North Antarctica  Novatainia	Alexandria  Hammish Monovia  Zandarijn	Craitland  Hamland  Interland  Mercury  Nova England  Nova English Korea	Ashkenatza  Shireroth  Tellia
		4	1 + 2 hosts	6	2 + 1 holder
2014 Details	Indokistan	Gerenia  North Antarctica  Safiria  Senya	Alexandria  Birgeshir  Zandarijn	Austbard  Craitland  Hamland  Indokistan  Interland  Mercury  Taeland	Elwynn  Tellia
		4	3	5 + 1 host + 1 holder	2
2015 Details	Craitland	Flanders (by play-off)  Gerenia  Gotzborg  Lakkvia  Senya	Alexandria  Athlon  Birgeshir  North Antarctica	Austbard  Hamland  Juclandia  Mercury  Passas  Talenore  Valencia	Craitland  Safiria  Shireroth  Tellia
		4.5	4.5	6 + 1 holder	3 + 1 host
2017 Details	Senya	Gerenia  Gotzborg  Jingdao  Lakkvia  Senya  Victoria	Alexandria  Birgeshir  Calbion  Natopia  Vyktory	Hamland  Mercury  New Vaduz  Nova England  Passas  Talenore	Craitland  Elwynn  Tellia
		5 + 1 host	5	5 + 1 holder	3
2019 Details	Birgeshir	Florian Republic  Freeland (by play-off)  Jingdao  Kingdom of Coria  Krasnarus  Lamantia  Senya	Birgeshir  Natopia  North Antarctica  Zandarijn	Hoenn  Mercury  New Vaduz  Nova England  Passas  Talenore (by play-off)	Craitland  Shireroth  Tellia
		6.5	3.5 + 1 host	5.5	2.5 + 1 holder
2021 Details	Floria	Alduria  Floria  Hurmu  Lamantia  Meckelnburgh  Senya  Thracistan	Calbion  Hazar  North Antarctic Domain	Mercury  Passas  Phinbella  Talenore  The Hexarchy	Craitland  Merenolitovina  Sanama  Tellia  Unified Governorates (by play-off)
		5 + 1 host + 1 holder	3.5	5	4.5
2023 Details	Mercury	Floria  Lamantia  Meckelnburgh  Raspur  Senya  Tiana (by play-off)  Vegno	Calbion  Natopia  New Batavia	Mercury  Nouvelle Alexandrie  Osktrava  Phinbella  The Hexarchy	Craitland  Sanama  Sovereign Confederation (by play-off)  Tellia  Unified Governorates
		5.5 + 1 holder	3.5	4.5 + 1 host	4.5

Emboldened teams received automatic qualification.
Italics signify a nation's début tournament.
A confederation's allocation including 0.5 of a place indicates that it received at least one spot in that year's interconfederational play-offs.

Previous entrants

Number of teams entering qualification

Confederation	2007 (13)	2008 (14)	2009 (14)	2010 (14)	2011 (14)	2012 (14)	2013 (13)	2014 (14)	2015 (18)	2017 (18)	2019 (18)	2021 (18)	2023 (18)
AEFA	12	16.51	10	15	15	18	20	24	20	16	30	25	29
CTFA	4	8	52	73	6	8	114	8	20	22	16	18	18
EMUFA	12	24	19	14	20	25	25	225	22	23	18	23	23
WMFA	8	7.51	10	8	6	10	8	8	12	12	11	20	19
Total entrants	36	56	44	44	47	61	64	62	74	73	75	86	89
Teams played6	35	55	44	44	47	61	64	62	74	73	75	86	89
Matches played	72	194	170	160	164	230	237	246	302	250	334	356	418
Goals scored	195	509	359	369	422	637	684	720	881	722	1,132	1,283	1,396
Average goals per match	2.71	2.62	2.11	2.31	2.57	2.77	2.89	2.93	2.92	2.89	3.39	3.60	3.34

¹ Tellia initially entered the WMFA's qualifying tournament, but switched their affiliation to that of the AEFA. The team then subsequently withdrew from the AEFA's qualifiers. They are counted as 0.5 of an entrant for each confederation to create an accurate number of total entrants.
² Alexandria participated in the CTFA's qualifiers despite being tournament hosts. The team's records in qualifying are included in this table's data.
³ Alexandria participated in the CTFA's qualifiers despite being previous holders. The team's records in qualifying are included in this table's data.
⁴ Zandarijn and Hammish Monovia participated in the CTFA's qualifiers despite being tournament co-hosts. The teams' records in qualifying are included in this table's data.
⁵ Hamland and Indokistan participated in the EMUFA's qualifiers despite being previous holders and tournament hosts, respectively. The teams' records in qualifying are included in this table's data.
⁶ "Teams played" refers to the total number of teams which actively played at least one official qualifying match.