Context FIFA's 2006 attempt to estimate the total number of football players. Content This includes three files. One for the count of players FIFA provided for each national football association, in the original format from their webpage and in long form. And one for which confederations each of these associations belong to. Source Big count data take from: https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131953/http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/bigcount/allplayers.html ISO_3166-1 standard details and confederation information taken from Wikipedia.