The Occitania national football team is the football

Football (soccer)

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 team of Occitania

Occitania

Occitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...

, which is the name given to areas of Italy, France and Spain where the Occitan language is spoken. It is controlled by the Occitania Football Association. As Occitania is not a recognised state it is neither a member of FIFA

FIFA

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 nor UEFA

UEFA

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, and the team therefore is not eligible to enter either the World Cup or European Championship

UEFA European Football Championship

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. They are members of the New Federations Board, and hosted the inaugural VIVA World Cup

Viva World Cup

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 in November 2006.

Since the Occitania team was established in 2004 they have played matches against Chechnya

Chechnya

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, Monaco

Monaco national football team

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, Northern Cyprus

Northern Cyprus national football team

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, and Val d'Aran

Val d'Aran

The Val d'Aran is a valley in the Pyrenees mountains and a comarca in the northwestern part of the province of Lleida, in Catalonia, northern Spain. Most of the valley constitutes the only part of Spain, and of Catalonia, on the north face of the Pyrenees, hence the only part of Catalonia whose...

.

In 2008 Occitania preferred to play in the Europeada 2008 organised by Federal Union of European Nationalities

Federal Union of European Nationalities

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 (FUEN) instead of the 2008 VIVA World Cup

2008 VIVA World Cup

The 2008 VIVA World Cup was the second VIVA World Cup, an international tournament for football, that took place in July 2008. The winners were Padania, who took home the Nelson Mandela Trophy. The tournament was organised by the Nouvelle Fédération-Board....

 organised by NF-Board. In the Europeada 2008 Occitania reached the quarter finals, being eliminated there by the later tournament winner South Tyrol.

VIVA World Cup record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
2006 2006 VIVA World Cup The 2006 Viva World Cup an international tournament for football, took place in Occitania from 20 November 2006 to 24 November 2006.-The Inaugural Tournament:...	3rd place match	3rd	2	0	0	2	2	10
2008 2008 VIVA World Cup The 2008 VIVA World Cup was the second VIVA World Cup, an international tournament for football, that took place in July 2008. The winners were Padania, who took home the Nelson Mandela Trophy. The tournament was organised by the Nouvelle Fédération-Board....	Did not enter
2009	5th place match	5th	3	1	0	2	2	6
2010 2010 VIVA World Cup -Group B:-------------Knockout stage:-Semi-Finals:-------------5th Place Match:---------3rd Place Match:---------Final:...	3rd place match	3rd	4	2	0	2	9	3
Total			9	3	0	6	13	19

Europeada record

Year	Round	Position	GP	W	D	L	GS	GA
Europeada 2008	Quarter Final	5th	4	2	2	0	8	5
Total			4	2	2	0	8	5

Selected international matches

Date	Venue			Score
May 28 2011	Olargues			11–2
Jun 05 2010	2010 VIVA World Cup 2010 VIVA World Cup -Group B:-------------Knockout stage:-Semi-Finals:-------------5th Place Match:---------3rd Place Match:---------Final:...  – Gozo Gozo Gozo is a small island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Southern European country of Malta; after the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago...			2–0
Jun 04 2010	2010 VIVA World Cup 2010 VIVA World Cup -Group B:-------------Knockout stage:-Semi-Finals:-------------5th Place Match:---------3rd Place Match:---------Final:...  – Gozo Gozo Gozo is a small island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Southern European country of Malta; after the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago...			1–2
Jun 02 2010	2010 VIVA World Cup 2010 VIVA World Cup -Group B:-------------Knockout stage:-Semi-Finals:-------------5th Place Match:---------3rd Place Match:---------Final:...  – Gozo Gozo Gozo is a small island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Southern European country of Malta; after the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago...			5–0
Jun 01 2010	2010 VIVA World Cup 2010 VIVA World Cup -Group B:-------------Knockout stage:-Semi-Finals:-------------5th Place Match:---------3rd Place Match:---------Final:...  – Gozo Gozo Gozo is a small island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. The island is part of the Southern European country of Malta; after the island of Malta itself, it is the second-largest island in the archipelago...			0–1
Apr 03 2010	Saint-Dalmas-De-Tende			5–1
Jun 26 2009	2009 VIVA World Cup – Padania Padania Padania is an alternative name for the Po Valley in Italy. The term was sparingly used until the early 1990s, when Lega Nord, a political party in Italy, proposed Padania as a possible denomination for an autonomous Northern Italy...			2–1
Jun 23 2009	2009 VIVA World Cup – Padania Padania Padania is an alternative name for the Po Valley in Italy. The term was sparingly used until the early 1990s, when Lega Nord, a political party in Italy, proposed Padania as a possible denomination for an autonomous Northern Italy...			0–4
Jun 22 2009	2009 VIVA World Cup – Padania Padania Padania is an alternative name for the Po Valley in Italy. The term was sparingly used until the early 1990s, when Lega Nord, a political party in Italy, proposed Padania as a possible denomination for an autonomous Northern Italy...			0–1
Nov 08 2008	Caraglio Caraglio Caraglio is a comune in the Province of Cuneo in the Italian region Piedmont, located about 80 km southwest of Turin and about 10 km northwest of Cuneo...			2–2
Jun 05 2008	Europeada 2008 – Rhaetia		South Tyrol	0–2
Jun 03 2008	Europeada 2008 – Rhaetia		Croats of Romania Croats of Romania The Croats are an ethnic minority in Romania, numbering 6,786 people according to the 2002 census. Croats mainly live in the southwest of the country, particularly in Caraş-Severin County. Declared Croatians form a majority in two Romanian localities: the communes of Caraşova and Lupac...	5–0
Jun 02 2008	Europeada 2008 – Rhaetia		Sorbs Sorbs Sorbs are a Western Slavic people of Central Europe living predominantly in Lusatia, a region on the territory of Germany and Poland. In Germany they live in the states of Brandenburg and Saxony. They speak the Sorbian languages - closely related to Polish and Czech - officially recognized and...	1–2
Jun 01 2008	Europeada 2008 – Rhaetia		Cimbrians	2–1
Nov 21 2006	2006 VIVA World Cup 2006 VIVA World Cup The 2006 Viva World Cup an international tournament for football, took place in Occitania from 20 November 2006 to 24 November 2006.-The Inaugural Tournament:...  – Occitania Occitania Occitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...			2–3
Nov 20 2006	2006 VIVA World Cup 2006 VIVA World Cup The 2006 Viva World Cup an international tournament for football, took place in Occitania from 20 November 2006 to 24 November 2006.-The Inaugural Tournament:...  – Occitania Occitania Occitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...			0–7
Aug 15 2006	Val d'Aran Val d'Aran The Val d'Aran is a valley in the Pyrenees mountains and a comarca in the northwestern part of the province of Lleida, in Catalonia, northern Spain. Most of the valley constitutes the only part of Spain, and of Catalonia, on the north face of the Pyrenees, hence the only part of Catalonia whose...	FC Bossost		4–2
Apr 15 2006	Occitania Occitania Occitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...			0–3
Dec 17 2005	France			1–2
Mar 3 2005	Occitania Occitania Occitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...		Chechnya Chechnya The Chechen Republic , commonly referred to as Chechnya , also spelled Chechnia or Chechenia, sometimes referred to as Ichkeria , is a federal subject of Russia . It is located in the southeastern part of Europe in the Northern Caucasus mountains. The capital of the republic is the city of Grozny...	14–0
Feb 12 2005	Occitania Occitania Occitania , also sometimes lo País d'Òc, "the Oc Country"), is the region in southern Europe where Occitan was historically the main language spoken, and where it is sometimes still used, for the most part as a second language...			0–0

Current squad

Squad for the 2010 VIVA World Cup

2010 VIVA World Cup

-Group B:-------------Knockout stage:-Semi-Finals:-------------5th Place Match:---------3rd Place Match:---------Final:...

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External links

• Occitania International Results
• Occitania Football Association-includes game summaries and rosters (in Occitan)