This article presents the overview of the on-boarding phase of the integration process between a National Registration System (NRS) of an MA and the FIFA Connect ID Service. For the general overview of the integration process see 00 Integration Overview.

Every new NRS must go through the on-boarding phase. This also applies when an MA upgrades from an older, already integrated system. For more information, refer to the Migration to a new National Registration System (NRS) article.

Note, that if MA decides to adopt an existing system as its NRS, the on-boarding phase will be largely simplified. Both available products - the FIFA Connect Platform (offered free of charge to MAs) and Comet (a commercial product offered by Analyticom) already meet  all functional integration requirements.


Beta Environment Stage

When the following conditions are fulfilled, the system may move to a Preproduction Environment Stage:

1) Developing all functionality (including UI) of the system integration


2) For verification purposes, passing all relevant tests in DevTools Beta environment: https://fci-devtools-beta.azurewebsites.net.


3) Implementing Data Holders functionality and confirming it with the Connect ID Team (support.id@fifa.org)


Preproduction Environment Stage

When the following conditions are fulfilled, the system may move to a Production Environment Stage:

4) Assigning FIFA IDs to copy of production data (real data or scrambled): At least all players and clubs in scope.


5) Exporting by MA and sending to Connect Id Team a list of all FIFA IDs of Persons that have been assigned by that MA and exist in their database. Connect Id Team performs a cross check to make sure that sets of IDs are identical on each side.


The points 4) and 5) above are described in more detail in the following article: Bulk upload process in Preproduction environment.


6) A video conference with screen-sharing walking through defined manual end-to-end test cases (see attached Excel file, depending on the MA integration setup, some test cases may not apply)


Special attention should be paid to data fixing actions as they may be recommended by the DXP system. It's important that an operator of a new system is able to fix potential duplication errors.


More details on how to build the user interface can be found in the following article: Building user interface for duplicate resolution.


7) Testing Clearing House integration (Connect ID Preproduction environment is integrated with the TMS Staging environment)


Production Environment Stage

8) Feedback session/ project closing call