European Union of Futsal

Union Europea de Futsal
Sport	Futsal
Category	Sports federation
Jurisdiction	Europa
Abbreviation	UEFS
Founded	1985
Affiliation	Asociación Mundial de Fútbol de Salón
Affiliation date	2003
Regional affiliation	World
Headquarters	Moscow
Location	Barcelona
President	Valeriy Akhumyan
Chairperson	Jose Zamora; Milan Semmler; Pierre Goyvaerts; Alexander Osun; Alexander Sokolov
CEO	Tristan Ortiz; Milan Semmler; Jordi Eduardo; Kurt Hartvedt; Pierre Goyvaerts; Alexander Sokolov; Anatoliy Skorbezh; Alexander Osun; Lachezar Palankov; Geoffrey Hugues
Secretary	Jordi Eduardo
Sponsor	Barri
Official website
	www.uefsfutsal.org

The Union Europea de Futsal (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 1988 in Madrid, then transferred to Moscow in Russia. The UEFS is affiliated to the Asociación Mundial de Fútbol de Salón (AMF), and is the European governing body for futsal under the AMF regulations.

The UEFS involves more than twenty national federations, among which Australia and Israel too.

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.

Recently UEFS (futsal) and UEFA (football) have been discussing the European futsal management. UEFS is a specific governing body for futsal and UEFA has the futsal as a committee beside football. UEFS has been organizing European Championships several years before UEFA organized their own.

Members

Full members

	Member	Web site
European Union of Futsal (UEFS) Members
Abkhazia	Abkhazian Futsal Federation
Armenia	Armenian Futsal Federation
Basque Country	Federación Vasca de Futbol Sala
Belarus	Belarus Federation of Indoor Football	http://www.futsal-by.com/
Belgium	Association Belge de Football en Salle	http://www.belgianfutsalfed.be/
Catalonia	Federació Catalana de Futbol Sala (FCFS)	http://www.futsal.cat/
Czech Republic	Ceská federace sálového fotbalu-futsalu	http://www.futsal-salovyfotbal.com
Denmark	Danish Federation
England	England Federation
France	Association Française de Futsal (AFF)	Futsal France
Germany	Futsal Germany
Greece	Greece Federation
Italy	Federazione Italiana Football Sala (FIFS)	http://www.fifs.it/
Kazakhstan	Kazakhstani Federation
Latvia	Latvian Federation
Norway	Indoor Football Scandinavia (IFS)	http://www.futsal.no/
Portugal	Portugal Federation
Russia	Russian Futsal Federation (FFR)	http://www.futsal-ffr.ru
Slovakia	Futsal Slovakia
South Ossetia	South Ossetian Futsal Federation
Spain	Confederación Nacional de Fútbol Sala	http://www.cnfutbolsala.com/
Ukraine	Ukrainian Federation

Associated members

	Member	Web site
Associated Members
Australia	Australian Federation	http://www.conistonindoor.com.au/
Israel	Israel Federation
Saint-Helena	Saint-Helena Federation
Japan	Japan Fustal Federation

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.

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