UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA /juːˈeɪfə/ yoo-AY-fə; French: Union des associations européennes de football;[lower-alpha 1] German: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände)[lower-alpha 2] is the administrative body for football, futsal and beach soccer in Europe, as well as Asia's Israel and the Euroasian transcontinental countries of Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan.[citation needed] It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA consists of 55 national association members. Because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended from FIFA and UEFA competitions all Russian teams, whether national representative teams or club teams.[3]
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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 | 46.371009°N 6.23103°E |
Region served | Europe |
Membership | 55 full member associations |
Official languages | English French German (other main but not official: Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish)[1] |
| Aleksander Čeferin[2] | |
First vice-president | Karl-Erik Nilsson |
Vice-presidents | Zbigniew Boniek Sándor Csányi Luis Rubiales Fernando Gomes Michele Uva |
General secretary | Theodore Theodoridis |
Main organ | UEFA Congress |
Parent organization | FIFA |
| Website | uefa |
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| AFC, CAF, CONCACAF |
| CONMEBOL, OFC, UEFA |
UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, and UEFA Super Cup, and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions.
Henri Delaunay was the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz 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.[4]