Unofficial Football World Championships

Netherlands stay Unofficial Champion – starting a new series?

Posted 13 September 2019

As again reigning Unofficial Champions the Elftal of course started into the European Qualifiers duel versus Estonia as huge favorite. It was the first ever UFWC match in Tallinn. The result also set the path forward in who’s hands the UFWC title will be at the end of the year: it will remain in Europe.

Current UFWC Champions

NETHERLANDS

SINCE 06/09/2019

DEFEATED GERMANY

Next UFWC Title Match

10/10/2019

Netherlands

Northern Ireland

Rotterdam

What is the UFWC?

The Unofficial Football World Championships is an alternative international football tournament contested in a boxing-style title match format. Winners of UFWC title matches become title-holders, and Unofficial Football World Champions, and move up the rankings table. UFWC lineage stretches back to the very first international football match in 1872, 58 years before the World Cup. Read More…

Latest UFWC Results

#	DATE	HOME	SCORE	AWAY	VENUE
960	09/09/2019	ESTONIA	0-4	NETHERLANDS	TALLINN	EQ	+
959	06/09/2019	GERMANY	2-4	NETHERLANDS	HAMBURG	EQ	+
958	11/06/2019	GERMANY	8-0	ESTONIA	MAINZ	EQ	+
957	08/06/2019	BELARUS	0-2	GERMANY	BARYSAW	EQ	+
956	24/03/2019	NETHERLANDS	2-3	GERMANY	AMSTERDAM	EQ	+
955	21/03/2019	NETHERLANDS	4-0	BELARUS	ROTTERDAM	EQ	+
954	19/11/2018	GERMANY	2-2	NETHERLANDS	Gelsenkirchen	NL	+
953	16/11/2018	NETHERLANDS	2-0	FRANCE	Rotterdam	NL	+
952	16/10/2018	FRANCE	2-1	GERMANY	Saint-Denis	NL	+
951	11/10/2018	FRANCE	2-2	ICELAND	Guingamp	FR	+

* = won on penalties. + = click for match report.

Complete UFWC results

Latest UFWC Rankings

Rank	Team	Played	Won	Last Held
1	Scotland	149	86	28-Mar-2007
2	England	145	73	20-Jun-2000
3	Argentina	105	62	28-Mar-2017
4	Netherlands	89	54	CURRENT
5	Russia	64	41	23-Feb-2000
6	Brazil	71	38	17-Jun-2015
7	Germany	69	31	06-Sep-2019
8	France	59	28	16-Nov-2018
8	Sweden	46	28	06-Feb-2013
10	Italy	56	27	22-Aug-2007

Teams ranked by number of title matches won.
Complete UFWC rankings

The UFWC title is in oranje hands again

Posted 7 September 2019

For the third time in 11 months Germany and Netherlands met each other in a UFWC title match. After a 2-2 draw in November 2018 and the UFWC title win from Germany in March 2019 the dutch team was motivated to not only win the trophy back but to also polish their so far not very successful start into the UEFA2020 qualifying campaign. And UFWC match #959 was not going to disappoint!