UEFA[]
"Union of European Football Associations" or UEFA is the administrative body for association football in Europe and Asia. It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Super Cup and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions.
UEFA was founded on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations. Initially, the European football union consisted of 25 members which number doubled by the early 1990s. UEFA membership coincides for the most part with recognition as a sovereign country in Europe, although there some exceptions. Some micro states, (e.g. the Vatican City) are not members. Some UEFA members are not sovereign states, but form part of a larger recognised sovereign state in the context of international law. Examples include England and Scotland, (part of the United Kingdom) or the Faroe Islands, (part of Denmark) however in the context of these countries government functions concerning sport tend to be carried at the territorial level coterminous with the UEFA member entity. Some UEFA members are transcontinental states, (e.g. Turkey and Russia). Several Asian countries were also admitted to the European football association, particularly Israel and Kazakhstan, which had been members of the Asian football association. Additionally some UEFA member associations allow teams from outside their association's main territory to take part in their "domestic" competition. Monaco, for example, takes part in the French League (though a separate sovereign entity); Welsh clubs Cardiff City and Swansea City participate in the English League; Berwick Rangers, situated in England, play in the Scottish Professional Football League and Derry City, situated in Northern Ireland, play in the Republic of Ireland-based League of Ireland .
Until 1959 the main headquarters were located in Paris, and later in Bern. Since 1995, UEFA headquarters transferred to Nyon, Switzerland. Henri Delaunay was the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz the first president. The current president is Michel Platini.
Members[edit][]
Code | Association | National teams | Founded | FIFA affiliation | UEFA affiliation | IOC member |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
ALB | [1]Albania | 1930 | 1932 | 1954 | Yes | |
AND | [2]Andorra | 1994 | 1996 | 1996 | Yes | |
ARM | [3]Armenia | 1992 | 1992 | 1992 | Yes | |
AUT | [4]Austria | 1904 | 1905 | 1954 | Yes | |
AZE | [5]Azerbaijan | 1992 | 1994 | 1994 | Yes | |
BLR | [6]Belarus | 1989 | 1992 | 1993 | Yes | |
BEL | [7]Belgium | 1895 | 1904 | 1954 | Yes | |
BIH | [8]Bosnia-Herzegovina | 1992 | 1996 | 1998 | Yes | |
BUL | [9]Bulgaria | 1923 | 1924 | 1954 | Yes | |
CRO | [10]Croatia | 1912 | 1992 | 1993 | Yes | |
CYP | [11]Cyprus | 1934 | 1948 | 1962 | Yes | |
CZE | [12]Czech Republic | 1901 | 1907 | 1954 | Yes | |
DEN | [13]Denmark | 1889 | 1904 | 1954 | Yes | |
ENG | [14]England | 1863 | 1905 | 1954 | No[n 1] | |
EST | [15]Estonia | 1921 | 1923 | 1992 | Yes | |
FRO | [16]Faroe Islands | 1979 | 1988 | 1990 | No[n 2] | |
FIN | [17]Finland | 1907 | 1908 | 1954 | Yes | |
FRA | [18]France | 1919[n 3] | 1904[n 4] | 1954 | Yes | |
MKD | [19]FYR Macedonia | 1948 | 1994 | 1994 | Yes | |
GEO | [20]Georgia | 1990 | 1992 | 1992 | Yes | |
GER | [21]Germany | 1900 | 1904 | 1954 | Yes | |
GIB[n 5] | [22]Gibraltar | 1895 | None | 2013 | No[n 1] | |
GRE | [23]Greece | 1926 | 1927 | 1954 | Yes | |
HUN | [24]Hungary | 1901 | 1906 | 1954 | Yes | |
ISL | [25]Iceland | 1947 | 1947 | 1954 | Yes | |
ISR | [26]Israel[n 6] | 1928 | 1929 | 1994 | Yes | |
ITA | [27]Italy | 1898 | 1905 | 1954 | Yes | |
KAZ | [28]Kazakhstan[n 7] | 1994 | 1994 | 2002 | Yes | |
LVA | [29]Latvia | 1921 | 1922 | 1992 | Yes | |
LIE | [30]Liechtenstein | 1934 | 1974 | 1974 | Yes | |
LTU | [31]Lithuania | 1922 | 1923 | 1992 | Yes | |
LUX | [32]Luxembourg | 1908 | 1910 | 1954 | Yes | |
MLT | [33]Malta | 1900 | 1959 | 1960 | Yes | |
MDA | [34]Moldova | 1990 | 1994 | 1993 | Yes | |
MNE | [35]Montenegro | 1931 | 2007 | 2007 | Yes | |
NED | [36]Netherlands | 1889 | 1904 | 1954 | Yes | |
NIR | [37]Northern Ireland | 1880 | 1911 | 1954 | No[n 1] | |
NOR | [38]Norway | 1902 | 1908 | 1954 | Yes | |
POL | [39]Poland | 1919 | 1923 | 1954 | Yes | |
POR | [40]Portugal | 1914 | 1923 | 1954 | Yes | |
IRL | [41]Republic of Ireland | 1921 | 1923 | 1954 | Yes | |
ROU | [42]Romania | 1909 | 1923 | 1954 | Yes | |
RUS | [43]Russia | 1912 | 1912 | 1954 | Yes | |
SMR | [44]San Marino | 1931 | 1988 | 1988 | Yes | |
SCO | [45]Scotland | 1873 | 1910 | 1954 | No[n 1] | |
SRB | [46]Serbia | 1919 | 1921 | 1954 | Yes | |
SVK | [47]Slovakia | 1938 | 1994 | 1993 | Yes | |
SVN | [48]Slovenia | 1920 | 1994 | 1994 | Yes | |
ESP | [49]Spain | 1909 | 1913 | 1954 | Yes | |
SWE | [50]Sweden | 1904 | 1904 | 1954 | Yes | |
SUI | [51]Switzerland | 1895 | 1904 | 1954 | Yes | |
TUR | [52]Turkey | 1923 | 1923 | 1962 | Yes | |
UKR | [53]Ukraine | 1991 | 1992 | 1992 | Yes | |
WAL | [54]Wales | 1876 | 1910 | 1954 | No[n 1] |
Notes[edit][]
- ^ ab c d e Part of the British Olympic Association
- ^ Part of the Danish National Olympic Committee
- ^ Originally founded as Comité Français Interfédéral in 1907, a predecessor to the current federation.
- ^ The current French FA, the French Football Federation (in its previous incarnation, the Comité Français Interfédéral), replaced the USFSA in 1907.
- ^ Tentative abbreviation, used by uefa.com to link to yet uncreated pages regarding Gibraltar
- ^ Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1954–1974), joined UEFA as several AFC teams refused to play against them. See also Foreign relations of Israel and International recognition of Israel.
- ^ Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1994–2002), joined UEFA.
Former members[edit][]
- [55] Saarland Football Union 1954–1956
- [56] German football association of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) 1954–1990
- [57] Football Federation of the Soviet Union 1954–1991, in 1992 became Russian Football Union. The newly independent 14 Soviet Republics created their own football associations, and they all became members of FIFA and UEFA or AFC.
- [58] Football Association of Yugoslavia 1954–1992, became Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro. Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Sloveniabecame independent and created their own football associations.
- [59] Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro 1992–2006, became Football Association of Serbia. Montenegro, which became independent, created its own football association.
Competitions[edit][]
UEFA runs official international competitions in Europe and some countries of Northern, Southwestern and Central regions of Asia for national teams and professional clubs, known as UEFA competitions, some of them regarded between the world's most prestigious tournaments.
International[edit][]
The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European Football Championship, started in 1958, with the first finals in 1960, and known as the European Nations Cup until 1964. It is also called UEFA or the EURO. UEFA also runs national competitions at Under-21, Under-19 and Under-17 levels. For women's national teams, UEFA operates the UEFA Women's Championship for senior national sides as well as Women's Under-19 and Women's Under-17 Championships.
UEFA also organized the UEFA-CAF Meridian Cup with CAF for youth teams. In an effort to boost youth soccer.
UEFA launched the UEFA Regions' Cup, for semi-professional teams representing their local region, in 1999.
In futsal there is the UEFA Futsal Championship and UEFA Futsal Under-21 Championship.
Italian, German, Spanish and French men's national teams are the sole to have won the European football championship in all categories.
Club[edit][]
[60][61]UEFA member countries by club competition entry entitlements, 2007/8
The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in the 1992/93 season and gathers the top 1–4 teams of each country's league (the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded); this competition was re-structured from a previous one that only gathered the top team of each country (held from 1955–92 and known as the European Champion Clubs' Cup or simply the European Cup).
A second, lower-ranked competition is the UEFA Europa League. This competition, for national knockout cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by UEFA in 1971 as a successor of both the former UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (also begun in 1955). A third competition, the Cup Winners' Cup, which had started in 1960, was absorbed into the UEFA Cup (now UEFA Europa League) in 1999.
In women's football UEFA also conducts the UEFA Women's Champions League for club teams. The competition was first held in 2001, and known as the UEFA Women's Cup until 2009.
The UEFA Super Cup pits the winners of the Champions League against the winners of the UEFA Europa League (previously the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup), and came into being in 1973.[5][6][7]
The UEFA Intertoto Cup was a summer competition, previously operated by several Central European football associations, which was relaunched and recognized as official UEFA club competition by UEFA in 1995.[8] The last Intertoto Cup took place in 2008.
The Intercontinental Cup was jointly organised with CONMEBOL between the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores winners.[9]
Only four teams[10][11] (Juventus, Ajax, Bayern Munich and Chelsea[12]) have won each of the three main competitions (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, UEFA Cup Winner's Cup and UEFA Cup/Europa League),[13] a feat that is no longer possible for any team that did not win the Cup Winners' Cup. There are currently nine teams throughout Europe that have won two of the three trophies; all but one have won the Cup Winners Cup, four require a win in the Champions League and five require a UEFA Europa League win.
Juventus of Italy was the first team in Europe—remaining the only one to date (2013)—to win all UEFA's official championships and cups[14] and, in commemoration of achieving that feat, have received The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.[15][16]
UEFA's premier futsal competition is the UEFA Futsal Cup, a tournament started in 2001 which replaced the former Futsal European Clubs Championship. This event, despite enjoying a long and well-established tradition in the European futsal community, dating back to 1984, was never recognized as official by UEFA.
Sponsors[edit][]
The UEFA Champions League current main sponsors are:
- Nissan[17]
- Gazprom[18]
- Heineken (excluding France, Kazakhstan, Russia, Slovenia, and Turkey, where alcohol sponsorship is restricted. In France, Switzerland and some parts of Spain, the Heineken hoarding is replaced by an "Enjoy responsibly" or "open your world" hoarding, and in Kazakhstan and Russia, the Heineken hoarding is replaced by a "Respect" hoarding.[citation needed])
- MasterCard
- Sony Computer Entertainment Europe[19]
- PlayStation is the brand advertised.
- UniCredit[20]
- HTC[21]
The UEFA Europa League current main sponsors are:
Adidas is a secondary sponsor and supplies the official match ball and referee uniform for all UEFA competitions. Konami's Pro Evolution Soccer is also a secondary sponsor as the official Champions League video game.
League revenues[edit][]
See also: List of professional sports leagues by revenue
Annual revenue comparison. All figures in Euros.
Source is the Deloitte 2013 annual report, which uses 2011–12 figures.[25]
Rank | League | Revenue | Revenue sources |
---|---|---|---|
1 | English Premier League | 3.0 bn | Broadcast revenue accounts for 50% of league revenue |
2 | German Bundesliga | 1.9 bn | Commercial sponsorship accounts for almost 50% of league revenue |
3 | Spanish La Liga | 1.8 bn | Two clubs – Real Madrid and Barcelona – account for 56% of league revenue |
4 | Italian Serie A | 1.6 bn | Matchday revenue accounts for only 12% of league revenue |
5 | French Ligue 1 | 1.1 bn | Matchday revenue accounts for only 11% of league revenue |
6 | Russian Premier League | 636 m | |
7 | Football League Championship (ENG) | 588 m | |
8 | Turkish Süper Lig | 444 m | |
9 | Dutch Eredivisie | 434 m |
See also[edit][]
Competitions[edit][]
Resolutions[edit][]
Awards: | Qualifications: |
Match: |
Major non-UEFA competitions[edit][]
Clubs:
|
National teams:
|
Financial Fair Play[edit][]
See also[edit][]
[62][63]Previous logo (until 2012)*Timeline of football
- List of Presidents of UEFA
- CONMEBOL
- CONCACAF
- Confederation of African Football (CAF)
- Asian Football Confederation (AFC)
- Oceania Football Confederation (OFC)
World Cup Participation and results[edit][]
- Legend
- 1st – Champion
- 2nd – Runner-up
- 3rd – Third Place[26]
- 4th – Fourth place
- QF – Quarterfinals
- R16 – Round of 16 (since 1986: knockout round of 16)
- R2 – Second round (for the 1974, 1978, and 1982 tournaments, which had two group stages)
- GS – Group Stage (in the 1950, 1974, 1978, and 1982 tournaments, which had two group stages, this refers to the first group stage)
- 1S – First Knockout Stage (1934–1938 Single-elimination tournament)
- • — Did not qualify
- × — Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
- — Hosts
Men[edit][]
Team | 1930
(13) |
1934
(16) |
1938
(15) |
1950
(13) |
1954
(16) |
1958
(16) |
1962
(16) |
1966
(16) |
1970
(16) |
1974
(16) |
1978
(16) |
1982
(24) |
1986
(24) |
1990
(24) |
1994
(24) |
1998
(32) |
2002
(32) |
2006
(32) |
2010
(32) |
2014
(32) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Austria | × | 4th | ••[27] | × | 3rd | R1
15th |
× | • | • | • | R2
7th |
R2
8th |
• | R1
T-18th |
• | R1
23rd |
• | • | • | • |
Belgium | R1
11th |
R1
15th |
R1
13th |
× | R1
12th |
• | • | • | R1
T-10th |
• | • | R2
10th |
4th | R2
11th |
R2
11th |
R1
19th |
R2
14th |
• | • | q |
Bosnia and Herzegovina[citation needed] | Part of Yugoslavia | × | • | • | • | • | R1
20th | |||||||||||||
Bulgaria | × | • | • | × | • | • | R1
15th |
R1
15th |
R1
13th |
R1
12th |
• | • | R2
15th |
• | 4th | R1
29th |
• | • | • | • |
Croatia[citation needed] | Part of Yugoslavia | × | 3rd | R1
23rd |
R1
22nd |
• | R1
19th | |||||||||||||
Czechoslovakia[citation needed] | see Czech Republic (1930–1994) | |||||||||||||||||||
Czech Republic[citation needed] | × | 2nd | QF
5th |
× | R1
14th |
R1
9th |
2nd | • | R1
15th |
• | • | R1
19th |
• | QF
6th |
• | • | • | R1
20th |
• | • |
Denmark | × | × | × | × | × | • | × | • | • | • | • | • | R2
9th |
• | • | QF
8th |
R2
10th |
• | R1
24th |
• |
East Germany[citation needed] | Part of Germany | × | × | • | • | • | • | R2
6th |
• | • | • | • | Part of Germany | |||||||
England | × | × | × | R1
8th |
QF
6th |
R1
11th |
QF
8th |
1st | QF
8th |
• | • | R2
6th |
QF
8th |
4th | • | R2
9th |
QF
6th |
QF
7th |
R2
13th |
R1
25th |
France | R1
7th |
R1
T-9th |
QF
6th |
• | R1
11th |
3rd | • | R1
T-13th |
• | • | R1
12th |
4th | 3rd | • | • | 1st | R1
28th |
2nd | R1
29th |
q |
Germany[citation needed] | × | 3rd | R1
10th |
× | 1st | 4th | QF
7th |
2nd | 3rd | 1st | R2
6th |
2nd | 2nd | 1st | QF
5th |
QF
7th |
2nd | 3rd | 3rd | q |
Greece | × | • | • | × | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | R1
24th |
• | • | • | R1
25th |
R2
TBC |
Hungary | × | QF
6th |
2nd | × | 2nd | R1
10th |
QF
5th |
QF
6th |
• | • | R1
15th |
R1
14th |
R1
18th |
• | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Israel[28] | × | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | R1
12th |
• | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Italy | × | 1st | 1st | R1
7th |
R1
10th |
• | R1
9th |
R1
9th |
2nd | R1
10th |
4th | 1st | R2
12th |
3rd | 2nd | QF
5th |
R2
15th |
1st | R1
26th |
R1
22nd |
Netherlands | × | R1
T-9th |
R1
14th |
× | × | • | • | • | • | 2nd | 2nd | • | • | R2
15th |
QF
7th |
4th | • | R2
11th |
2nd | q |
Northern Ireland | × | × | × | • | • | QF
8th |
• | • | • | • | • | R2
9th |
R1
21st |
• | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Norway | × | × | R1
12th |
× | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | R1
17th |
R2
15th |
• | • | • | • |
Poland | × | • | R1
11th |
× | × | • | • | • | • | 3rd | R2
5th |
3rd | R2
14th |
• | • | • | R1
25th |
R1
21st |
• | • |
Portugal | × | • | • | • | • | • | • | 3rd | • | • | • | • | R1
17th |
• | • | • | R1
21st |
4th | R2
11th |
R1
18th |
Republic of Ireland[29] | × | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | QF
8th |
R2
16th |
• | R2
12th |
• | • | • |
Romania | R1
8th |
R1
12th |
R1
9th |
× | • | • | • | • | R1
T-10th |
• | • | • | • | R2
12th |
QF
6th |
R2
11th |
• | • | • | • |
Russia[30] | QF
7th |
QF
6th |
4th | QF
5th |
• | • | R2
7th |
R2
10th |
R1
17th |
R1
18th |
• | R1
22nd |
• | • | R1
24th | |||||
Scotland | × | × | × | •• | R1
15th |
R1
14th |
• | • | • | R1
9th |
R1
11th |
R1
15th |
R1
19th |
R1
T-18th |
• | R1
27th |
• | • | • | • |
Serbia[citation needed] | 4th[31] | • | • | R1
5th |
QF
7th |
QF
5th |
4th | • | • | R2
7th |
• | R1
16th |
• | QF
5th |
× | R2
10th |
• | R1
32nd |
R1
23rd |
• |
Serbia and Montenegro[citation needed] | see Serbia (2006) | |||||||||||||||||||
Slovakia[citation needed] | Part of Czechoslovakia | • | • | • | R2
16th |
• | ||||||||||||||
Slovenia[citation needed] | Part of Yugoslavia | × | • | R1
30th |
• | R1
18th |
• | |||||||||||||
Soviet Union[30] | see Russia (1930–1990) | |||||||||||||||||||
Spain | × | QF
5th |
× | 4th | • | • | R1
12th |
R1
10th |
• | • | R1
10th |
R2
12th |
QF
7th |
R2
10th |
QF
8th |
R1
17th |
QF
5th |
R2
9th |
1st | R1
23rd |
Sweden | × | QF
8th |
4th | 3rd | • | 2nd | • | • | R1
9th |
R2
5th |
R1
13th |
• | • | R1
21st |
3rd | • | R2
13th |
R2
14th |
• | • |
Switzerland | × | QF
7th |
QF
7th |
R1
6th |
QF
8th |
• | R1
16th |
R1
16th |
• | • | • | • | • | • | R2
15th |
• | • | R2
10th |
R1
19th |
R2
TBC |
Turkey | × | × | × | •• | R1
9th |
× | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | 3rd | • | • | • |
Ukraine[30] | Part of Soviet Union | × | • | • | QF
8th |
• | • | |||||||||||||
Wales | × | × | × | • | • | QF
6th |
• | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
West Germany[citation needed] | see Germany (1950–1990) | |||||||||||||||||||
Yugoslavia[citation needed] | see Serbia (1930 for Kingdom of Yugoslavia; 1950–1990 for SFR Yugoslavia; 1994–2002 for FR Yugoslavia) |
Women[edit][]
Team | 1991
[64] (12) |
1995
[65] (12) |
1999
[66] (16) |
2003
[67] (16) |
2007
[68] (16) |
2011
[69] (16) |
2015
[70] (24) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Denmark | QF
7th |
QF
7th |
R2
15th |
• | R2
12th |
• | |
England | • | QF
6th |
• | • | QF
7th |
QF
7th |
|
France | • | • | • | R2
9th |
• | 4th | |
Germany | 4th | 2nd | QF
8th |
1st | 1st | QF
6th |
|
Italy | QF
6th |
• | R2
9th |
• | • | • | |
Norway | 2nd | 1st | 4th | QF
7th |
4th | R2
10th |
|
Russia | × | • | QF
5th |
QF
8th |
• | • | |
Sweden | 3rd | QF
5th |
QF
6th |
2nd | R2
10–11 |
3rd | |
Switzerland | • | • | • | • | • | • | q |
FIFA Confederations Cup[edit][]
- Legend
- 1st – Champions
- 2nd – Runners-up
- 3rd – Third place
- 4th – Fourth place
- GS – Group stage
- •• — Qualified / Invited, but declined to take part
- • — Did not qualify
- × — Did not enter / Withdrew from continental championship / Confederation did not take part
- Q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
- — Hosts
Team | 1992
(4) |
1995
(6) |
1997
(8) |
1999
(8) |
2001
(8) |
2003
(8) |
2005
(8) |
2009
(8) |
2013
(8) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Czech Republic | × | × | 3rd | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Denmark | × | 1st | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
France | × | • | • | •• | 1st | 1st | • | • | • |
Germany | × | • | •• | GS | • | •• | 3rd | • | • |
Greece | × | • | • | • | • | • | GS | • | • |
Italy | × | • | • | • | • | •• | • | GS | 3rd |
Spain | × | • | • | • | • | •• | • | 3rd | 2nd |
Turkey | × | • | • | • | • | 3rd | • | • | • |
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- ^ There was no Third Place match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semifinals. FIFA recognizes the United States as the third-placed team andYugoslavia as the fourth-placed team using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.
- ^ Austria qualified in 1938, but withdrew to play as part of Germany after being annexed.
- ^ Israel competed as Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) in 1934 and in 1938, with a team consisting exclusively of Jewish and British footballers from the Palestine Mandate.
- ^ Republic of Ireland competed as the Irish Free State in 1934 and then as Ireland in 1938 and 1950.
- ^ ab c Russia's best result is group stage in 1994 and 2002. However FIFA considers Russia as the successor team of the USSR.
- ^ There was no official World Cup Third Place match in 1930; The USA and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. Currently, FIFA recognizes USA as the third-placed team andYugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the1930 FIFA World Cup.
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