The East Turkestan football team is a team from the Uyghur region of East Turkestan. Previously registered as Uyghur, it is a member of ConIFA.
The idea to create an East Turkestan Football Association began in 2014 before it was eventually established.
On 19 October 2019, it played its first international game ever, that ended with a 8âÂÂ2 against West Papua in The Hague.
On 14 December 2019, East Turkestan played a qualification match for the 2020 CONIFA World Cup against Tamil Eelam in Cergy, France, that ended with a 0âÂÂ3 loss. The team debuted in the CONIFA Asian Football Cup in 2025, held in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, they competed in a 3-team round-robin including Tamil Eelam and Tibet.