Fédération Internationale de Football Association

FIFA

Last modified: 2005-09-24 by juan manuel gabino villascán
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by Juan Manuel Gabino Villascán

• FIFA
• Current FIFA flag
• Use of flags at international matches
• Previous FIFA flag
• FIFA Centenial flag and emblem
• National football associations
  • FIFA full member national football associations
  • Former national football association members of the FIFA
  • Independent countries not members of the FIFA
• Sources

• AFC - Asian Football Confederation
• CAF - Confédération Africaine de Football / African Football Confederation
• CONCACAF - Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Football
• CONMEBOL - Confederación Sudarmericana de Fútbol
• OFC - Oceania Football Confederation
• UEFA - Union of European Fooball Associations

• International Sporting Organizations
• International Organizations

• Fédération Internationale de Football Association Website

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) was founded in Paris on 21 May 1904, by the Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlètiques (USFSA), the Union Belge des Sociétés de Sports (UBSSA), the Dansk Boldspil Union (DBU), the Nederlandsche Voetbal Bond (NVB), the Madrid Football Club, the Svenska Bollspells Förbundet (SBF), and the Association Suisse de Football (ASF).

One of its main goals, beside the standarisation of the "Laws of the Game", has always been the organization of international competition, and a way to accomplish this was through the organization of the Olympic Soccer tournament at the London Olympic Games of 1908. Since then the FIFA has, with the exception of the Games of 1932, organized Soccer tournam