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The NF-Board (Nouvelle Fédération-Board, unofficially Non-FIFA-Board) is a football association established for national teams that are not — and usually may not become — members of FIFA, usually because the participating nations do not have internationally recognised sovereign state status. It was established on December 12, 2003. The NF-Board aims to organise matches between its member teams, stating a belief in the "right to play competitive football",[1] and organises the VIVA World Cup, which took place for the first time in November 2006, in Occitania.[2] This first VIVA World Cup was won by Sápmi after they defeated Monaco 21-1. Two other teams, Occitania and Southern Cameroons, also competed in the competition. This was Sápmi's first title. The NF-Board seeks to work with FIFA to be a temporary organisation for football teams before they acquire membership in FIFA.
Initiator and now General Secretary of the NF-Board is Luc Misson, the lawyer of Jean-Marc Bosman in the Bosman ruling.[3]
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[edit] Full Members
[edit] Provisional Members
[edit] Associated members
Republic of Saugeais
Sealand
South Lower Saxony
[edit] NF-Board Ranking October 2006
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus 1047
Zanzibar 1038
Sápmi 895
Monaco 807
Occitania 785
Greenland 707
South Moluccas 613
Easter Island 613
Tibet 566
Chechnya 564
Kiribati 356
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Chagos Islands
Rijeka
Rom
Somaliland
Southern Cameroon
West Papua
