Transnistria national football team

Transnistria
Shirt badge/Association crest
AssociationTransnistria Football Federation
ConfederationConIFA
Home stadiumSheriff Arena
FIFA codePMR
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First international
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Biggest win
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Biggest defeat
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The Transnistria national football team is the national team of Transnistria, a de facto unrecognized state in Eastern Europe. They are not affiliated with FIFA or UEFA and therefore cannot compete for the FIFA World Cup or the UEFA European Championship. Transnistria became a member of CONIFA, an umbrella association for national teams not affiliated with FIFA, in 2015, but has since left the organization.[1][2]

Despite expressing interest,[3] the national team never entered the CONIFA World Football Cup, and has not yet played any official matches. An amateur team representing Transnistria, however, competes in the Moldovan qualifying stages for the UEFA Regions' Cup.[4] A Transnistria veteran's national side has also played in the Dniester Cup, a mini-football tournament, against three clubs including Hapoel Bat Yam F.C. from Israel.[5]

  1. ^ "Transnistria – ConIFA". www.conifa.org. Archived from the original on 2019-04-15. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Members – ConIFA". www.conifa.org. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  3. ^ "CONIFA Visits Transnistria". www.conifa.org. 3 July 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2019.
  4. ^ "Cup of the Republic of Moldova in Amateur Football (Russian)". Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  5. ^ "II International tournament among veterans for the Dniester Cup (Russian)". 4 April 2019. Archived from the original on 2020-02-17. Retrieved 25 November 2022.