Football touches every corner of the globe; from every haven, tiny island or microstate, the sport is universal. Every nation in the world plays football. Except one.
The Marshall Islands are the last country on earth without a football team. They are the sole members of the United Nations 193 states that do not play the sport. FIFA represents 211 men's national football teams while a further 11 teams do not have membership but are part of one of FIFA's affiliated continental confederations – such as Tuvalu and Kiribati, also Pacific Islands.
There are UN members who are not part of an association but have fielded representative football teams, comprising Monaco and Vatican City, among others. There are a further eight territories, recognised neither by the UN or FIFA, who also have teams including: Northern Cyprus, Western Sahara and Transnistria.
