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The International Football Association Board (IFAB) is an international self-regulatory body of association football that is known for determining the Laws of the Game, the regulations for the gameplay of football. It was founded in 1886 in order to establish standardised regulations or "Laws" for the gameplay of international competition, and ...
FIFA - Fédération Internationale de Football Association - 211 members - founded in 1904, represents nations from around the world, and is the overall governing body of recognised international football.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association [a] (lit. ' International Federation of Association Football '), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA [b] (/ ˈ f iː f ə / FEE-fə), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.
A sports governing body is a sports organization that has a regulatory or sanctioning function. Sports governing bodies come in various forms and have a variety of regulatory functions, including disciplinary action for rule infractions and deciding on rule changes in the sport that they govern. Governing bodies have different scopes.
The Football Association (the FA) is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.Formed in 1863, it is the oldest football association in the world and is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the amateur and professional game in its territory.
USA Football is the governing body of American football in the United States. [1] It is the United States' member of the International Federation of American Football (IFAF), [ 2 ] and a recognized sports organization of the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee . [ 3 ]
The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, [1] [a] abbreviated as CONCACAF (/ ˈ k ɒ ŋ k ə k æ f / KONG-kə-kaf; typeset for branding purposes since 2018 as Concacaf), [2] is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football.
Confederation of Independent Football Associations (4 C, 7 P) Pages in category "Association football governing bodies" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.