FA Sápmi

FA Sápmi is a football association which is the organizer of the Sápmi football team representing the indigenous Sámi people. It is a member of the Confederation of Independent Football Associations (ConIFA), but not a member of either FIFA or UEFA.^[3] The president of the FA Sápmi is Håkan Kuorak from Jokkmokk, Sweden.^[4] It was the host of 2014 ConIFA World Football Cup.^[5]

FA Sápmi was established in March 2014 as the successor of the 2003 founded Sámi Football Association (Northern Sami: Sámi Spábbáčiekčan Lihttu, SSL; Norwegian: Samisk Fotballforbund, SFF), which had not submitted neither the financial accounts, nor their budget requirement to the Sámi Parliament, and had only existed on paper since 2011,^[6][4] and as a result, its president and vice-president had both resigned in 2012,^[6][7] it had lost the support of the Sámi Parliament in 2013,^[8] and finally went bankrupt on 14 January 2015, leaving FA Sápmi as the main football association for the Sámi people.^[9]