The Greenland Football Association wants to join the Confederation, which also includes the USA. In view of the annexation plans of US President Trump, a delicate application.
In May 2024, the Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) received an inquiry. The football association of Greenland asked for admission as a decent member.
Concacaf is the merger of football associations from North America, Central America and the Caribbean. You also belong to the Association of French Guyana, which in turn belongs to France. The Bonaire Association is also a member of the Concacaf, although the island in front of Venezuela is one of the Netherlands.
So initially there is little against a recording in Greenland, which belongs to Denmark as an autonomous part, in the Concacaf. However, a lot has happened in the world since May 2024. Donald Trump rules again in the United States, and he wants Greenland to be part of the United States soon.
Silence for negotiations
The proposal of the Greenland Football Association, which is called Kalaallit Arsaattartut Kattuffiat (KAK) in the national language of Kalaallit, has now received a political dimension that is tricky.
It is so sensitive that the Greenland association politely asks for understanding that he currently wants to say nothing about the process, which will soon take a year. The KAK will “lead the negotiations with Concacaf, the Danish football association and national politicians” behind closed doors “.
It remains open whether it remains at an appointment on Friday (04/04/2025), which the KAK initially announced itself and described as a “decisive factor” for the question of whether the huge island with the only 57,000 inhabitants, of which 58 football clubs should be organized in 38 football clubs, will soon become a member of Concacaf.
The meeting is said to be the meeting in London, supposedly it was initially scheduled for February in Miami. There is the headquarters of Concacaf, of which nothing was heard about Greenland’s application, and here too, a request from the sports show was without an answer.
No chance of the UEFA
Greenland’s application would be politically obvious to the UEFA. But it is also hopeless, because the European Association changed its statutes after two members were admitted to the associations of the Faroe Islands (also autonomous part of Denmark) and Gibraltar (Great Britain), which exist outside the large respective national associations. The Concacaf keeps its doors open on paper for such cases.
Picturesque backdrop, not even artificial turf: soccer field in Greenland
If Greenland’s application is given positively, the KAK national teams could take part in official competitions, including qualifications for the continental tournament Gold Cup and the World Cup.
Artificial turf and childhood dream
A picturesque backdrop would expect the visiting teams, but also artificial turf, because the climatic conditions in Greenland make it difficult to maintain a natural grass field in such a way that it can be played in the intended time windows.
Patrick Frederiksen is captain of the Greenland national team, who rarely plays. It is his “childhood dream” to compete against larger teams and to show the world that Grönlanders can also play football, he told the AFP news agency in September 2024.
At this point, too, the political dimension of the application was not yet foreseeable. In the meantime, Greenland is only concerned with keeping the autonomous status as part of Denmark. Donald Trump’s latest statements sound threatening. If necessary, according to the US President, he would use the military to get Greenland.