As an untested tournament the scheduling doesn't meet the organizational capacity of a billion dollar organization like FIFA.

The men's teams that took part were: The women's teams that took part were: As a small tournament, like its European counterpart in Europeada 2008, this VIVA World Cup was not expected to bring in the numbers and financial support of UEFA Euro 2008 earlier this summer; the stadia venues are thus rather small.

The hosts of the games were:[2] Padania became the 2008 VIVA World Cup champions beating Arameans Suryoye in the final 2–0.

Iraqi Kurdistan, also debuting, finished 3rd in the group stage but lost in the 4th place play off to Sapmi.

To round of the places, in a distant last position, having lost all of their group games, was Provence, a region of France.