Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba

What is the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba?

The Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba is the national association for football in Cuba and the country’s member of FIFA and Concacaf. FIFA’s directory lists it as the Cuban Football Association, in the Concacaf confederation, with Oliet Rodríguez as president.^[2] Concacaf’s profile names it the Asociación de Futbol de Cuba and calls it, in English, the Football Association of Cuba.^[3]

The association covers football and futsal. FIFA’s list of its officers names a futsal coordinator, Luis Veitia, who is also a vice-president, and records the president as a member of a futsal committee.^[1] Its seat is the national football school at the Estadio Pedro Marrero in Havana.^[1] Concacaf’s profile places it among the confederation’s founding members.^[3]

What does the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba govern or do?

FIFA’s directory shows the structure through which the association runs the game. Its officers are a president, two vice-presidents, a general secretary and a treasurer, together with a media and communication manager and a technical director.^[1]

Refereeing sits with the association: FIFA lists María Sáez as chair of the referees committee and referee coordinator, and Lázaro Rojas as head of the referees department.^[1] National-team football is directed through head coaches of the men’s and women’s teams, whom FIFA also names, and futsal through a coordinator, Luis Veitia, who is also a vice-president.^[1] The general secretary, Miguel Díaz, sits on an institutional relations committee.^[1] As the FIFA member for Cuba, the association enters the country’s teams in FIFA’s men’s, youth, futsal and Olympic football competitions.^[2]

When was the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba founded and where is it based?

Concacaf states: “Cuba is one of the founding members of Concacaf, with the Football Association of Cuba joining in 1961.”^[3] Concacaf itself “was established in 1961 from a vision of unity, officially formed through the merger of the North American Football Union (NAFU) and the Football Confederation of Central America and the Caribbean (CCCF)”.^[4] The year 1961 is therefore the date of the association’s Concacaf membership, by Concacaf’s account, and is distinct from the date of the association’s own founding. FIFA’s profile records Cuba’s men’s team at the 1938 FIFA World Cup.^[2]

FIFA gives the association’s address as “Estadio Pedro Marrero, Escuela Nacional de Fútbol - Mario López, Avenida 41, 44 y 46 Municipio Playa, La Habana”; Concacaf gives the same.^[1][3]

How is the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba recognised?

FIFA. FIFA’s member-association pages list the Cuban Football Association in the Concacaf confederation, with its president, officers and address.^[2][1] FIFA’s profile records the men’s team’s entry in the qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.^[2]

Concacaf. Concacaf’s list of its 41 member associations includes Cuba, and its profile states that the association joined in 1961, as one of the confederation’s founding members.^[5][3] Concacaf’s members run “from Canada in the north to Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana in the south”.^[4]

The Caribbean. Concacaf’s alphabetical list of its members includes, beside Cuba, the other Caribbean associations of the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico and Trinidad and Tobago, among others.^[5]

What does the Asociación de Fútbol de Cuba organise?

The association fields Cuba’s national teams, and FIFA’s directory names head coaches of the men’s and women’s teams.^[1] FIFA’s profile of the association records the men’s team at the FIFA World Cup in 1938 and in the qualifiers for 2026; youth teams at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2013 and the FIFA U-17 World Cup in 1989 and 1991; the futsal team at the FIFA Futsal World Cup, most recently in 2016; and the Olympic football tournament, including 1980.^[2] The 2026 World Cup (11 June–19 July 2026) is past.

Within Concacaf the national teams enter the confederation’s competitions, among them the Gold Cup, which Concacaf’s profile of the association lists among them, together with the Caribbean Cup.^[3] Concacaf records the senior women’s team in the group stage of the 2018 Concacaf Women’s Championship, and the futsal team’s five qualifications for the FIFA Futsal World Cup, most recently in 2016.^[3] The men’s team plays in the Concacaf Nations League, whose page listed on 4 October 2026 a completed Cuba match against Saint Kitts and Nevis.^[6]

Who are its members?

At the continental level the association is itself the member: Concacaf’s 41 members are national associations, Cuba’s among them.^[5] FIFA likewise lists the association, not its clubs, as Cuba’s member association.^[2]

FIFA’s directory lists the association’s officers in October 2026: president Oliet Rodríguez; vice-presidents Ciro Escalona and Luis Veitia; general secretary Miguel Díaz; treasurer Andy Guzmán; media and communication manager Jesús Pereira; technical director José Herranz; referees committee chair María Sáez; and head of the referees department Lázaro Rojas.^[1] The same directory lists the president on a futsal committee and the general secretary on an institutional relations committee.^[1]