European Union of Futsal

European Union of Futsal
Sport	Futsal
Category	Sports federation
Jurisdiction	Europa
Abbreviation	UEFS
Founded	1985
Affiliation	none
Headquarters	Moscow
Location	Barcelona
President	Valeriy Akhumyan
Chairperson	Jose Zamora; Milan Semmler; Pierre Goyvaerts; Alexander Osun; Alexander Sokolov
CEO	Tristan Ortiz; Milan Semmler; Kurt Hartvedt; Pierre Goyvaerts; Alexander Sokolov; Anatoliy Skorbezh; Alexander Osun; Lachezar Palankov; Geoffrey Hugues
Sponsor	Barri
Official website
	www.uefsfutsal.org

The European Futsal Association (UEFS) is the international sporting association for futsal in Europe. Its name has been directly translated into many languages, and in English has been known as both the European Futsal Association and the European Union of Futsal. It was founded in 1985 in Madrid, Spain, then transferred to Moscow in Russia. UEFS was affiliated to the Asociación Mundial de Fútbol de Salón (AMF), and was the European governing body for futsal under the AMF until 2017. However UEFS was disaffiliated from AMF and Futsal European Federation was established to replace UEFS.

UEFS organizes men's and women's tournaments for both national and club's teams. In women's area, the activity started in 2001 in Russia with the national teams: Championships that took place were both won by the Russian national team. Clubs’ tournaments like men's ones take place since 2004.

Competitions

National teams

The first competition organized was the European Championship that took place in Madrid in 1989. This kind of competition was first dominated by Iberian teams: Portugal won in 1989 and 1990 – in 1991 was also world-beater – and Spain in 1992. Afterwards it was dominated by Eastern teams: Slovakia won in 1995, Russia in 1998 and Belarus in 2004. Now UEFS stages the European Championship biennially.

Clubs

In 1991, UEFS organized the first tournament for club's teams: the European Champion Clubs’ Cup, which takes place regularly every year in a different site, except for 2000. In 1995 this competition was put side by side by UEFS Cup that, after being first occasional – 1995, 1997, 1998, 2000 -, now takes place yearly.

External links

UEFS