What is a FIFA country code?

A FIFA country code, or trigramme, is a three-letter abbreviation FIFA assigns to each member national football association. It appears on match scoreboards, in fixture lists, and in the FIFA world rankings.

Are FIFA codes the same as ISO country codes?

Often, but not always. FIFA uses GER for Germany, NED for the Netherlands, and SUI for Switzerland, which differ from the ISO alpha-3 codes DEU, NLD, and CHE. Always use the FIFA code in a football context.

Why does the United Kingdom have four codes?

For historical reasons the UK fields four separate national associations in football: England (ENG), Scotland (SCO), Wales (WAL), and Northern Ireland (NIR). Each is a full FIFA member with its own code and team.

How many members does FIFA have?

FIFA has 211 member associations, more than the number of UN member states, because several territories and the UK home nations compete separately. This reference lists the most frequently searched teams rather than all 211.

What are the six FIFA confederations?

The six confederations are UEFA (Europe), CONMEBOL (South America), CONCACAF (North and Central America and the Caribbean), CAF (Africa), AFC (Asia), and OFC (Oceania). Each member association belongs to exactly one.

FIFA Country Code Lookup

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What FIFA codes are

Every national football team you see on a World Cup scoreboard is labelled with a three-letter FIFA code. These trigrammes are the compact identity FIFA uses across fixtures, rankings, and broadcasts. They look like ISO codes but follow their own conventions, which is why a quick lookup saves confusion.

How it works

A FIFA code is a fixed three-letter abbreviation tied to a member association, not to a country in the political sense. Each association also belongs to exactly one of six continental confederations:

UEFA      Europe
CONMEBOL  South America
CONCACAF  North & Central America, Caribbean
CAF       Africa
AFC       Asia
OFC       Oceania

The mapping is mostly intuitive — BRA for Brazil, JPN for Japan — but several codes are deliberately different from ISO and IOC equivalents, so you cannot assume they match.

Tips and notes

Watch the well-known divergences: Germany is GER, the Netherlands NED, Switzerland SUI, Saudi Arabia KSA, South Africa RSA, and Croatia CRO. The United Kingdom is the biggest surprise for newcomers — it has no single team, instead fielding England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland separately. Use the confederation filter to build group-stage or qualifying tables, since teams qualify through their own confederation’s pathway.