The Football at the 2019 Summer Universiade in Naples was played between 2 and 13 July. 24 football teams participated in the tournament.

Following the FISU regulations, The maximum of 12 teams in football events where the number of entries is larger than the authorised participation level will be selected by ^[1]

• The entry and the payment of guarantee.
• Those 6 teams finishing top rankings of the previous edition will be automatically qualified.
• Those 3 teams finishing bottom rankings of the previous edition will be replaced by new applying teams.
• The host is automatically qualified
• The remaining teams will be selected by wild card system according to geographical, continental representation, FISU ranking and FIFA ranking.

Qualified teams

Men's competition

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Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	—	—	1	Italy
Top five of previous edition	18–29 August 2017	Taipei	5	Japan  France  Mexico  Uruguay  Russia
Continental Quotas		Lausanne	4	Ukraine  Brazil  South Korea  South Africa
Wild card		Naples	2	Argentina  Republic of Ireland
Total			12

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Women's competition

More information Means of qualification, Date ...

Means of qualification	Date	Venue	Vacancies	Qualified
Host Country	—	—	1	Italy
Top six of previous edition	17–28 August 2017	Taipei	6	Brazil  Japan  Russia  South Africa  United States  South Korea
Continental Quotas		Lausanne	2	Canada  China
Wild card		Naples	3	North Korea  Republic of Ireland  Mexico
Total			12

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Following the FISU regulations, draw of pool will be based on following by.^[1]

• Previous Summer Universiade results
• Participation in previous Summer Universiades
• Continental representation
• FIFA rankings