2018 IAFF World Cup

The 2018 IAFF World Cup was the first World Cup, an international football tournament contested by the national teams of invited member regions, as organised by the Interregional Association of Football Federations (IAFF). It was hosted by the North American Republics from 17 July till 6 August.

The final tournament involved 20 national teams. A total of 48 matches were played in 8 venues located in 7 cities. The final took place on 6 August at the Citadel of Champions in New New York, between Llorens and Goncar. Goncar won the match 2-1 to claim the first World Cup title.

Qualification
The qualification process was a series of tournaments organised by the participating regions to select 4 nations each to play in the 2018 IAFF World Cup. A total of 35 nations from 5 regions participated in the process, with 20 of these nations qualifying. As the Union of Democratic States had only four nations signup for their regional qualifiers, all automatically qualified and no matches were needed to determine the nations who were to progress.

Knockout stage
In the knockout stages, if a match is level at the end of normal playing time, extra time is played (two periods of 15 minutes each) and followed, if necessary, by a penalty shoot-out to determine the winners.