2019 MIFF World Cup

The 2019 MIFF World Cup is scheduled to be the 5th MIFF World Cup, an international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations. It is scheduled to take place in Aliezza and Lygossia Nogai during summer 2019. It will be the third World Cup to be held in Europe.

The finals will involve 32 teams, of which 30 come through qualifying competitions, while the host nations qualified automatically. Apollo Union is the defending champions.

The final will take place in July at the in, Aliezza.

Host selection
Main article: MIFF World Cup 2019 Bids

The bidding procedure to host the 2019 MIFF World Cup began on 13th of August 2018, and national associations had until 20th of August to register their interest. A total of seven bids were accepted by the MIFF. Adria, Caribe and Hainan applied as a sole nation. Dual bids were now introduced in the bidding procedure and four dual bids were accepted: Aliezza–Lygossia Nogai, Dantomkia–Scotland-Ireland, Valkyria–Fyorr and Western Republic–Apollo Union.

This was the first time when was introduced in the bidding procedure to prevent tactical voting, in which people don't vote for their sincere bid because it is not likely to win. The voting began on on 3rd of September 2018 and it ended on 25th of September. A total of 18 votes were registered.

The results were announced on 6th of October 2018. The Aliezza–Lygossia Nogai bid won, defeating Dantomkia–Scotland-Ireland in the final round.

Qualification
32 teams from four confederations qualified to the final tournament.

Draw
The draw was held on 4 May 2019 at the in. The 32 teams were drawn into 8 groups of 4, by selecting one team from each of the 4 ranked pots.

For the draw, the teams were allocated to four pots based on the MIFF World Ranking. Pot 1 contained the hosts Aliezza and Lygossia Nogai (who were automatically assigned to position A1 and B1) and the best six teams, pot 2 contained the next best eight teams, and so on for pots 3 and 4. Teams from the same confederation still were not drawn against each other for the group stage, except that two European teams could be in each group.

Venues
The matches will take place in 12 venues in 10 host cities all across Aliezza and Lygossia Nogai.

Team base camps
Base camps were used by the 32 national squads to stay and train before and during the World Cup tournament.

Group stage
Competing nations were divided into eight groups of four teams (groups A to H). Matches in the groups A to D were scheduled to Aliezza, where as the groups E to H in Lygossia Nogai.

Times are written in the hosting stadium's time zone (UTC +3 for Aliezza, UTC +3:30 for Lygossia Nogai)

Tiebreakers

 * 1) The ranking of teams in the group stage is determined as follows:
 * 2) Points obtained in all group matches;
 * 3) Goal difference in all group matches;
 * 4) Number of goals scored in all group matches;
 * 5) Points obtained in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 6) Goal difference in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 7) Number of goals scored in the matches played between the teams in question;
 * 8) Drawing of lots.

Group A
(H) Host.

Group E
(H) Host.

Match balls
The official match ball, Adidas Zafer 19, was unveiled 12 July 2018. The word zafer means victory. During the tournament, the Adidas Fetih 19 was introduced as the exclusive match ball for the knockout rounds.

Mascot
The official mascot for the tournament was unveiled 11 November 2018, and selected through a design competition. A public vote was held to decide the mascot from three finalists—an eagle, a cat, and a wolf. The winner, with 68% of votes was Bayram — an anthropomorphic wolf dressed in 2019 MIFF World Cup merchandise.

Bayram is based on a legend on a grey wolf. The wolf symbolizes honor and is also considered the mother of most.

Official song
The competition's official opening song was "" by an American pop rock band released on 23 February 2019. Its music video was released on the same date.