As there is the Commonwealth Games.. Is there any chance of a Commonwealth Football Championship as it may be the only chance any of the Home Nations are likely to win a competition.

I predict England will be the favourites and Australia are getting a good team and Scotland would easily appear in these finals and possibility able to host these finals unlike the WC and Euros.

What do you think?

Surprised they don't have them this year say at under 23 level, they have the grounds as well for a small tournament

Out of the World Cup teams this year, only England, Australia, Ghana and Nigeria who also compete in the Commonwealth Games would be in this competition

Probably a good reason not to have it then. The quality of such a tournament would be drab to say the least.

It'd be a good idea for younger players at least.

In that case I'd make Nigeria favourites, they usually have good youth teams...

You've also got New Zealand, South Africa and Trinidad & Tobago who have qualified for recent world cups and a handful of other countries with some footballing heritage


I'd imagine we'd have a 16 team tournament


The 4 home nations
Australia
Ghana
Nigeria
New Zealand
South Africa
Trinidad & Tobago
Canada
Jamaica
Cyprus
Cameroon (oh, there's another one from this year's world cup)
Singapore

As a youth tournie it might have some merit.

Don't really see the point in adding to an already crowded fixture calendar with a meaningless tournament.

If it's for younger players, it'd be fine. Most wouldn't be playing in regular first team club football anyway.

seven a side!
would fully endorse this

Possible Championship draw based on current FIFA rankings

Pot 1

England
Scotland
Ghana
Wales

Pot 2

Nigeria
Sierra Leone (no 54 in rankings!)
Cameroon
Australia

Pot 3

South Africa
Trinidad and Tobago
Zambia
Jamaica

Pot 4

Uganda
Northern Ireland
Botswana
New Zealand

Other teams in the game by Fifa
Kenya
Canada
Namibia
Rwanda
Mozambique
Malawi
Malta
St Vincent and the Grenadines
St Lucia
Lesotho
Cyprus
Grenada
Maldives
Antigua and Barbuda
Belize
Malaysia
India
Singapore
Guyana
St Kitts and Nevis
Pakistan
Montserrat
Bangladesh
Dominica
Barbados
Swaziland
Bermuda
Sri Lanka
Solomon Islands
Seychelles
Mauritius
Bahamas
Fiji
Samoa
Vanuatu
Brunei Darussalam
Tonga
Cayman Islands
Papua New Guinea
British Virgin Islands
Cook Islands
Anguilla
Turks and Caicos Islands
and new team Gibraltar

Not a bad idea at all to have another tournament. How about the home nations, Ireland and three invited teams, run it parallel to the Confederations cup.

within the games themselves though

It could also be held parallel to the World Cup, right after the group stage.

now the Commonwealth Games are approaching. Best to get the discussing alive again

I suspect there would be problems with the legality of it. It would have to be a FIFA sanctioned event and I imagine they might have problems with the idea of such a tournament, especially as it's held in World Cup year every four years.....in effect, it could be seen as a 'rival' event to the World Cup (in a heavily diluted form of course).

It would be a complete car crash of a tournament.

Nigeria we're the only country from the commonwealth to get to the last sixteen of the world cup.

You forgot Cameroon.

It should be held in the other year rather than the WC year

No players picked for World Cup allowed to play in Commonwealths. In effect, you'd put your B team in the Commonwealths and blood new players because no player will put CG before WC.

It could work with some sort of stipulation such as that.