Non-Official Football Association

Hattrick Organisations

HFA	Hattrick Football Association
COF	Club Owners Federation
HTPU	Hattrick Player Union
GAO	Global Agent Organisation
HCB	Hattrick Central Bank

Associations in rivalry
NFA	Non-Official Football Association
WTCA	World Top Clubs Alliance

The Non-Official Football Association (NFA) is the international governing body for hattrick football teams that are not affiliated with HFA. The organization was created as a joyfull league of nations, dependencies, unrecognized states, minorities, stateless peoples, regions and micronations claiming their own spot in the game and/or HFA recognition.

Foundation and Purpose

The Non-Official Football Association (NFA) is a mystic organisation located somewhere in the non-Hattrick world, The organization was created as a joyfull league of territoties claiming their own spot in the game and/or HFA recognition. It was made up for teams for who application for HFA membership was denied.

The NFA organised the first NFA U-20 World Cup in 2007. After that, it all changed: the national U-20 teams of Savoy, Somaliland and Afghanistan became bot teams, Catalunya's application for HFA membership was denied in 2009, and Cuba and Qatar obtained their official leagues in 2011. The NFA transformed gradually in a secret group operating in the shadows as an alternatif of the HFA.

Another European republics as Valais, Vaud or Geneva, are members of the Swiss Confederation by own choise and do not need to join the NFA, but they are be able to participate at the NFA World Cup. Recently, Rhenish Republic founded its national team in november 2020.

Announcements

The HT-staff has made an announcement about Non-HFA international football:

**Hattrick announces**
Our policy on leagues and league names	09/06/2009
From time to time we get questions about our policy for new league additions, and also for country names, and while this may not be the most interesting news it's good to spell it out and make it clear. New league additions in Hattrick have to be FIFA members. We also base our naming policy on FIFA. We have used this policy for many years now, as it makes perfect sense for us to do so. Hattrick is a global online football game, and FIFA is the international governing body of association football. So in case of any dispute, we choose the same name that FIFA uses. This way, we don't take side in any real life conflict. In our league dropdowns we will start using the English name now. This will make it much easier for everyone to understand and use the dropdown. It will also make us more compliant with our FIFA policy and avoid real life conflicts carrying over to the Hattrick world.

Tournaments

The NFA organised the NFA U-20 World Cup, an international football tournament for national teams that are not (and usually may not become) members of the HFA.

Members

potential HFA countries are all NFA unofficial members

NFA expressly uses the term "members" rather than "countries" or "states". A football association may be eligible to apply for membership of NFA if it, or the entity (ethnic and/or linguistic minority, indigenous group, cultural organization, territory) it represents, is not a member of HFA and satisfies one or more of the following criteria:

territories part of larger countries whose inhabitants have a strong historically constituted identity with ethnic or cultural unity;
full recognized country non associated with HFA that does not participate in international tournaments.