Fédération Calédonienne de Football (FCF) is led by Edmond Bowen who was elected President in July 2011. Former President Claude Fournier was encouraged to pursue full FIFA membership for the French Territory by UEFA President Michel Platini and French Football Federation President Claude Simonet. In May 2004 that became reality when New Caledonia was welcomed as the 205th member of FIFA during the 54th FIFA Congress in Paris.

The French Territory of some 240,000 people has already shown its mettle in Oceania at a variety of levels including a second-place finish at the OFC Nations Cup in 2008. New Caledonia has also been successful in producing a number of top footballers who have gone on to play professionally overseas. Most notably, Lifou-native Christian Karembeu had a glittering 18-year career that included 1998 FIFA World Cup and Euro 2000 successes with France.

A FIFA-approved artificial turf pitch opened in May 2008 and is one of several FIFA Goal Projects aimed at improving New Caledonia’s football infrastructure. The inauguration coincided with the OFC Youth Festival, Extraordinary Congress and Karembeu Jubilee which FIFA Presidend Joseph S. Blatter attended. FCF will now work on phase two and three of the Goal Project which will involve the construction of a technical centre with office space for the association headquarters and eventually an outside futsal facility.