South American Board of New Football Federations

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South American Board of New Football Federations
Consejo Sudamericano de Nuevas Federaciones de Fútbol
Conselho Sul-Americano de Novas Federações de Futebol

Formation	May 25, 2007
Type	Sports organization
Headquarters	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Membership	South American regions, ethnic groups, small nations
Official language	Spanish, Portuguese
President	Gonzalo Esteban Parada
Vice President	Thiago Fernandes Monteiro
General Secretary	Gonzalo Flores Domarchi
Employees	03 (including the president) 02 (including the general secretary) 03 (including the vice-president) 01 01 01 (special representative)
Website	www.csanf.net

The South American Board of New Football Federations (Spanish: Consejo Sudamericano de Nuevas Federaciones de Fútbol, Portuguese: Conselho Sul-Americano de Novas Federações de Futebol), also known by its acronym COSANFF (formerly known as CSANF) is the administrative and controlling body for non-FIFA football federations in South America.^[1] It was also initially affiliated with the now defunct N.F.-Board.

CSANF was founded on 25 May 2007 and is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the founders, is the current President.

CSANF Cup[]

The CSANF Cup, sometimes called the Alternative America Cup (in Spanish Copa América Alternativa), is the main competition organized by CSANF between the football teams of the peoples and regions affiliated with the CSANF. The first CSANF Cup was launched in 2011, a modest arrangement because of financial difficulties. The single match elimination of the loser was adopted.

The following Cup events were in 2014 called CSANF Cup - Fraternidad Internacional and the third was in 2017 called CSANF Cup - 10 Años o celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of the CSANF

#	Year	Title	Host	Final
				Winner	Score	Runner-up
1	2011	Copa CSANF 2011	Juan Fernández Islands Chile	Juan Fernández Islands	1 – 1 (4 – 3 Penalty kicks)	Aimará Nation
2	2014	Copa CSANF 2014 - Fraternidad Internacional	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Armenian Argentine Community	8 - 3	Esperanto
3	2017	Copa CSANF - 10 Años	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Armenian Argentine Community	10 - 0	Fernando de Noronha

Affiliated associations in Confederation of Independent Football Associations[]

Since 2019, CSANF has some associations affiliated to Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA). The champion of the CSANF Cup, has the right, if affiliated at the same time with CONIFA, to qualify automatically to the following edition of the ConIFA World Cup as representative of the South American group. It is worth mentioning that this was a new opening, as until the 2019 agreement, ConIFA did not have any South American representation. However the CSANF champion was not obliged to participate in case it didn't want to. If the CSANF champion was not an affiliate or has financial issues that kept it from taking part, the CSANF runner-up (if affiliated with ConIFA) would earn the right to take part.^{[citation needed]}

Members[]

Selection	Area	Membership Category	Year federation joined COSANFF
Aymara Nation [2]	Mainly Chile Also: Bolivia, Peru	Full-member	2010
Juan Fernández Islands[3]	Chile	Full-member	2010
Mapuche Nation[3]	Chile Argentina	Full-member	2010
Fernando de Noronha[3]	Brazil	Full-member	2012
Roraima[3]	Brazil	Full-member	2016
Indigenous peoples of Panama[3]	Panama	Full-member	2016
Chiloé[3]	Chile	Full-member	2021
Tierra del Fuego[3]	Argentina	Associate	2020
Credited as Special members
Easter Island	Chile	Special Associate Team: CF Rapa Nui	2010
Esperanto[4]	International	Special Associate	2014
Armenian Argentine Community	Argentina	Special Associate	2014

• Isla de Pascua and Esperanto were earlier members of the now-defunct NF-Board
• Isla de Pascua and Mapuche Nation are members of ConIFA

Potential Members[]

• Ascension Island (United Kingdom)
• Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas (United Kingdom)
• Galápagos Islands (Ecuador)
• Mbyá-Guaraní (Paraguay)
• Magallanes and Chilean Antarctica Region (Chile)
• Margarita Island (Venezuela)
• Martín García Island (Argentina)
• Saint Helena (United Kingdom)
• San Andrés y Providencia (Colombia)
• South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands (United Kingdom)
• Táchira (Venezuela)
• Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom)

Staff[]

Currently, CSANF has representatives in 5 of 13 South American countries - Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil and Colombia - and one special representative in Spain.

In total are 16 members, including the president, vice-president and the general secretary.

Board[]

• Gonzalo Esteban Parada (President)
• Thiago Fernandes Monteiro (Vice-President)
• Gonzalo Flores Domarchi (Secretary General)

Other representatives (current and earlier)

• Facundo Mango Vorrath
• Javier Luis Parada
• Jorge González Aburto
• Benedito Júnior
• Anderson Fernandes Borges
• Esteban Riveros Zárate
• Daniel Stéfano Cañete
• Raúl Sánchez (Special Representative)

See also[]

• Non-FIFA international football
• Confederation of Independent Football Associations
• World Unity Football Alliance
• N.F.-Board
• International Island Games Association, another non-FIFA governing body.

Footnotes[]

External links[]

• Official website (in Spanish)
• Facebook (in Spanish)
• Facebook (in Portuguese)
• Video of an interview with the representative for Brazil in a Television Channel (in Portuguese)