Union of North African Football Federations


The Union of North African Football Federations is an association football organising body. It was launched in 2005 by the North African members of the Confederation of African Football, Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. The post of president will be rotated among the five founding nations.

History

The Union of North African Football Federations was founded in 2005 and includes the countries of Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia and is continued to the Confederation of African Football that have 53 national football associations distributed into 6 regions. The UNAF is the sixth region of the continent by division accredited to the CAF and the Union has presided over in the first parliamentary period immediately following its founding by Mr. Samir Zaher a former president of the Egyptian Football Association, the president is elected during a plenary session for a period of 4 years by the members of the Union and are the heads of the five unions and the president-elect proposes as his deputy from among the immediate superiors five national unions during the first meeting of an executive office following the election as General Assembly by the Executive Office to determine the heads and members of the committees.
The recent president elected is Mr. Wadii Jari, a president of the Tunisian Football Federation. He was unanimously elected chairman of the UNAF for a term of four years and during the electoral general assembly, which was held on Saturday 25 October 2014 in Tunis.
He was also selected Mr. Gamal Allam, a head of the Egyptian Football Association as a vice-president of the UNAF unanimously. On the other hand, the General Assembly approved in particular on the administrative and financial reports of the UNAF as well as the adoption of the estimated budget of the Union project for the year 2015 and the report of the Finance Committee meeting held on 23 October 2014. The program was approved on the North African Union's activities for the year 2015.

Member Associations

UNAF has 5 member associations. All associations were founding members of UNAF, All of them are members of the Confederation of African Football and are members of the Union of Arab Football Associations.
List of FIFA country codes|AssociationNational teamsFoundedFIFA affiliationCAF affiliationUAFA affiliationUNAF affiliationList of members of the International Olympic Committee|
ALG19621963196419742005
EGY19211923195719742005
LBY19621964196519742005
MAR19551960195919762005
TUN19571960196019762005

Board of Directors

Current Board of Directors

Former Presidents

Competitions

UNAF runs several competitions which cover men's, women's, youth, clubs and futsal.

Current title holders

Defunct Competitions

International Tournaments Participation

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For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament are shown.
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For each tournament, the number of teams in each finals tournament are shown.

FIFA Confederations Cup

Team1992
1995
1997
1999
2001

2003
2005
2009
2013
2017
Total
•••R1
7th		•••R1
6th		••2/10
••••••R1
6th		•••1/10
Total00010011103

Men Summer Olympics

FIFA Futsal World Cup

Rankings

Men's national teams

Rankings are calculated by FIFA.
UNAFCAFFIFACountryPoints+/-
12271506 2
24351482 3
35431456 1
47511420 2
5231011215 2

Women's national teams

Rankings are calculated by FIFA based on matches played over the last four years.

Men's national beach soccer teams

UNAFCAFFIFACountryPoints
1217995
2319966
3756225
4967155
5181050

Women's national beach soccer teams

UNAFCAFFIFACountryPoints
1211315
2n/an/aNo FIFA recognition
3n/an/aNo FIFA recognition
4n/an/aNo FIFA recognition
5n/an/aNo FIFA recognition

Men's national futsal teams

Controversy

On 19 November 2009, the Egyptian Football Association withdrew its membership citing the incidents that accompanied the playoff between Egypt and Algeria, but returned in 2011.