Football Association of Greenland
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The Football Association of Greenland (Greenlandic
Kalaallisut language
Greenlandic is an Eskimo–Aleut language spoken by about 57,000 people in Greenland. It is closely related to the Inuit languages in Canada, such as Inuktitut...

: Kalaallit Nunaanni Isikkamik Arsaattartut Kattuffiat; ) (GBU) is the governing body of football
Football (soccer)
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 in the island
Island
An island or isle is any piece of sub-continental land that is surrounded by water. Very small islands such as emergent land features on atolls can be called islets, cays or keys. An island in a river or lake may be called an eyot , or holm...

 country of Greenland
Greenland
Greenland is an autonomous country within the Kingdom of Denmark, located between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Though physiographically a part of the continent of North America, Greenland has been politically and culturally associated with Europe for...

. The GBU was founded in 1971. It runs the Greenland national football team
Greenland national football team
The Greenland national football team is the national team of Greenland and is controlled by the Football Association of Greenland. Although it has the same status as the Faroe Islands within the Kingdom of Denmark, Greenland is not a member of FIFA nor of any continental confederation and therefore...

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Greenland is not a member of FIFA
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association , commonly known by the acronym FIFA , is the international governing body of :association football, futsal and beach football. Its headquarters are located in Zurich, Switzerland, and its president is Sepp Blatter, who is in his fourth...

 (2010) and can therefore not play in the FIFA World Cup
FIFA World Cup
The FIFA World Cup, often simply the World Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the senior men's national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association , the sport's global governing body...

. In addition to FIFA, Greenland is neither a member of CONCACAF
CONCACAF
The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football is the continental governing body for association football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean...

 or UEFA
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations , almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA is the administrative and controlling body for European association football, futsal and beach soccer....

. This is because Greenland cannot sustain a grass pitch to the permafrost
Permafrost
In geology, permafrost, cryotic soil or permafrost soil is soil at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years. Ice is not always present, as may be in the case of nonporous bedrock, but it frequently occurs and it may be in amounts exceeding the potential hydraulic saturation of...

 which envelops Greenland.

Football is the most popular sport in Greenland and there are about 5,000 players.
The Greenland Football Federation was started in 1971 and they have their office in Nuuk.
The president of GBU in 2011 is Lars Lundblad and he lives in Qaqortoq.
In Greenland, football can usually be played outside from the end of May until the middle of September – of course they can play longer in the south of Greenland than in the north.
All the grounds where they play football matches are sand pitches.
Many towns have indoor halls and the football players play indoor football from October to about April.

The Greenland football championship is named as Coca Cola GM
Coca Cola GM
Coca Cola GM is the top football division in Greenland and it was created in 1958. Since 1971 it is organized by the Football Association of Greenland....

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