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(Birth–Death) Term of office Country of origin Took office Left office Time in office 1: Robert Guérin (1876–1952) 22 May 1904 4 June 1906 2 years, 12 days France: 2: Daniel Burley Woolfall (1852–1918) 4 June 1906 24 October 1918 (died in office) 12 years, 142 days England – Cornelis August Wilhelm Hirschman [note 1] (1877–1951) 24 ...
Three states with limited international recognition and no UN membership are members of both FIFA and an affiliated confederation: the Republic of China (as Chinese Taipei), Kosovo, and Palestine. The Cook Islands is an associated state with no UN membership, but it is a member of both FIFA and the OFC. The national teams representing these ...
Only Congress can pass changes to FIFA's statutes. The congress approves the annual report and decides on the acceptance of new national associations, and holds elections. Congress elects the President of FIFA, its general secretary, and the other members of the FIFA Council in the year following the FIFA World Cup. [33]
Infantino was a member of FIFA's Reform Committee. [16] On 26 October 2015, he received the backing of the UEFA Executive Committee to stand for the position of president in the 2016 FIFA Extraordinary Congress. On the same day, he confirmed his candidacy and submitted the required declarations of support. [17]
Main tournament was the Amateur European Championship, this confederations was the rival to FIFA in the early years. NF-Board - New Federation Board - 18 members + 14 provisional - founded in 2003, represented nations, dependencies, unrecognized states, minorities, stateless peoples, regions and micronations not affiliated to FIFA.
A vital statistics system is defined by the United Nations "as the total process of (a) collecting information by civil registration or enumeration on the frequency or occurrence of specified and defined vital events, as well as relevant characteristics of the events themselves and the person or persons concerned, and (b) compiling, processing, analyzing, evaluating, presenting, and ...
FIFA (French: Fédération Internationale de Football Association) is an international self-regulatory governing body of association football, futsal and beach soccer. It is one of the world's oldest and largest NGOs, being founded on 21 May 1904. [1] It has since expanded to include 211 member associations and is governed by a set of ...
The following National Federations form the members of International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) these are broken down into the following six Continental Associations. v t