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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.
FIFA's supreme body is the FIFA Congress, an assembly of representatives from each affiliated member association. Each national football association has one vote, regardless of size or footballing strength. The Congress assembles in ordinary sessions once every year, and extraordinary sessions have been held once a year since 1998.
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 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.
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.
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 United States Olympic Committee (USOC) is the national governing body for all U.S. athletes in the Olympic and Pan-American Games. The IOC is the international governing body for the summer and winter Olympic Games. Labor issues are not unique to United States law. The European Union has dealt with countless sports-related legal issues.
Because most European football clubs participate in different competitions during a season, regular-season home-and-away games are often referred to as league games and the others as non-league or cup games, even though the separate competitions may be organized by the same governing body. Also, there is a rugby football code called rugby ...