Union of European Football Associations | |
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.JPG) UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland | |
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| Abbreviation | UEFA |
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| Formation | 15 June 1954 |
| Founded at | Basel, Switzerland |
| Type | Football organisation |
| Headquarters | Nyon, Switzerland |
| Coordinates | 46°22′16″N 6°13′52″E / 46.371009°N 6.23103°E |
Region | Europe |
Membership | 55 full member associations |
Official languages | English French German (other main but not official: Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Spanish)[1] |
| Aleksander Čeferin[2] | |
First vice-president | Karl-Erik Nilsson |
Vice-presidents | Zbigniew Boniek Armand Duka David Gill Gabriele Gravina Laura McAllister |
General secretary | Theodore Theodoridis |
Main organ | UEFA Congress |
Parent organization | FIFA |
| Website | uefa.com |
| FIFA confederations |
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| AFC, CAF, CONCACAF |
| CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA |
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA /juːˈeɪfə/ yoo-AY-fə; French: Union des associations européennes de football;[a] German: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände)[b] is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan, as well as the West Asian countries of Cyprus, Armenia and Israel.[3] UEFA consists of 55 national association members. Since 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national teams and clubs from any FIFA and UEFA competitions.[4][5]
UEFA consists of the national football associations of Europe, and runs national and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Conference League, and UEFA Super Cup, and also controls the prize money, regulations, as well as media rights to those competitions.
Henri Delaunay acted as the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz as the first president. The current president is Aleksander Čeferin, a former Football Association of Slovenia president, who was elected as UEFA's seventh president at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens in September 2016, and automatically became a vice-president of the world body FIFA.[6]
- ^ "How to switch to another language of UEFA.com – Inside UEFA". UEFA. Archived from the original on 9 July 2019. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
- ^ "Čeferin elected as UEFA President". UEFA. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 14 September 2016.
- ^ "National Associations | Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Retrieved 28 July 2022.
- ^ "FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions".
- ^ Rhodes, Charlie (4 July 2009). "UEFA (Union of European Football Associations)". Sportslens.com. Retrieved 5 June 2024.
- ^ "President – About UEFA – Inside UEFA". UEFA.com. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
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