The power of sporting spectacles to symbolically put a place ‘on the map’, and for athletes’ performances to represent their nations to the rest of the world, has become an established theme in scholarship on the geopolitics of sport. This chapter discusses the participation of Kabylia in the 2018 CONIFA World Football Cup in London, in which a wide variety of unrecognised states, secessionist groups and geopolitical anomalies were represented. Kabylia, a Berber-speaking region of Algeria, emerged on this international stage, mediatised and embodied primarily through the assemblage of its diaspora. The Kabylia that was presented to the world through online and mainstream media was a nation searching for its independence. However, most media coverage of Kabylia at the tournament was based upon deeply partisan nationalist discourse, presented so as to suggest that, beyond any question, Kabylia is a nation. Such a claim would have been unimaginable until recently, but the growth of Kabyle diaspora institutions is providing a space for its articulation. This chapter will analyse the role of this sporting event in the assemblage of diaspora and argue that an already existent Kabyle discourse and performance of secessionism has been further developed through CONIFA’s format and mediatisation.