UEFA

Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
Abbreviation	UEFA
Formation	15 June 1954
Founded at	Basel, Switzerland
Headquarters	Nyon, Switzerland
Coordinates	46°22′16″N 6°13′52″E / 46.371009°N 6.23103°E
Region served	Europe
Membership	55 full member associations
Official languages	English; French; German; (other main but not official: Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, Turkish)
President	Aleksander Čeferin[1]
First vice-president	Karl-Erik Nilsson
Vice-presidents	Reinhard Grindel; Hryhoriy Surkis; Fernando Gomes; Michele Uva
General secretary	Theodore Theodoridis
Main organ	UEFA Congress
Parent organization	FIFA
Website	uefa.org

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA /juːˈeɪfə/ yoo-AY-fə; French: Union des Associations Européennes de Football;^[2] German: Vereinigung Europäischer Fußballverbände)^[3] is the administrative body for association football in Europe, although several member states are primarily or entirely located in Asia. It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. UEFA consists of 55 national association members.

UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, and UEFA Super Cup, and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions.

Henri Delaunay was the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz the first president. The current president is Aleksander Čeferin, a former Football Association of Slovenia president, who was elected as UEFA's seventh president at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens in September 2016, and automatically became a vice-president of the world body FIFA.^[4]

History and membership

UEFA headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland

UEFA was founded on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations.^[5] The European football union began with 25 members; that number doubled by the early 1990s. Until 1959 the main headquarters were located in Paris, and later in Bern. In 1995, UEFA headquarters were transferred to Nyon, Switzerland. UEFA membership coincides for the most part with recognition as a sovereign country in Europe, although there are some exceptions. Some states (Monaco and 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. These include Northern Ireland, Scotland, England and Wales (countries of the United Kingdom), Gibraltar (British Overseas Territory), the Faroe Islands (autonomous country within Denmark), and Kosovo (disputed territory and partially recognised state), 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 (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Turkey and Russia) and others are considered part of Europe both culturally and politically (Armenia and Cyprus). Countries which had been members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) were also admitted to the European football association, particularly Israel (because it had been banned from the AFC group in 1974) and Kazakhstan. Additionally some UEFA member associations allow teams from outside their association's main territory to take part in their "domestic" competition. AS Monaco, for example, takes part in the French League (though a separate sovereign entity); Welsh clubs Cardiff City, Swansea City and Newport County A.F.C. participate in the English League; Berwick Rangers, situated in England, play in the Scottish Professional Football League. Derry City, situated in Northern Ireland, plays in the Republic of Ireland-based League of Ireland and the 7 native Liechtensteinian teams play in the Swiss Leagues.

Members

Code	Association	National teams	Founded	FIFA affiliation	UEFA affiliation
ALB	Albania	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1930	1932	1954
AND	Andorra	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1994	1996	1996
ARM	Armenia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1992	1992	1992
AUT	Austria	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1904	1905	1954
AZE	Azerbaijan	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1992	1994	1994
BLR	Belarus	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1989	1992	1993
BEL	Belgium	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1895	1904	1954
BIH	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1992	1996	1998
BUL	Bulgaria	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1923	1924	1954
CRO	Croatia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1912	1992	1993
CYP	Cyprus	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1934	1948	1962
CZE	Czech Republic	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1901	1907	1954
DEN	Denmark	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1889	1904	1954
ENG	England	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1863	1905	1954
EST	Estonia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1921	1923	1992
FRO	Faroe Islands	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1979	1988	1990
FIN	Finland	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1907	1908	1954
FRA	France	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1919^{[n 1]}	1904^{[n 2]}	1954
GEO	Georgia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1990	1992	1992
GER	Germany	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1900	1904	1954
GIB	Gibraltar	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1895	2016	2013
GRE	Greece	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1926	1927	1954
HUN	Hungary	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1901	1906	1954
ISL	Iceland	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1947^{[n 3]}	1947	1954
IRL	Republic of Ireland	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1921	1923	1954
ISR	Israel^{[n 4]}	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1949	1949	1994^{[n 5]}
ITA	Italy	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1898	1905	1954
KAZ	Kazakhstan^{[n 6]}	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1994	1994	2002
KVX	Kosovo	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1946	2016	2016
LVA	Latvia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1921	1922	1992
LIE	Liechtenstein	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1934	1974	1974
LTU	Lithuania	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1922	1923	1992
LUX	Luxembourg	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1908	1910	1954
MKD	Macedonia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1926	1994	1994
MLT	Malta	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1900	1959	1960
MDA	Moldova	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1990	1994	1993
MNE	Montenegro	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1931	2007	2007
NED	Netherlands	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1889	1904	1954
NIR	Northern Ireland	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1880	1911	1954
NOR	Norway	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1902	1908	1954
POL	Poland	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1919^{[n 7]}	1923	1954
POR	Portugal	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1914	1923	1954
ROU	Romania	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1909	1923	1954
RUS	Russia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1912	1912	1954
SMR	San Marino	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1931	1988	1988
SCO	Scotland	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1873	1910	1954
SRB	Serbia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1919	1923	1954
SVK	Slovakia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1938	1994	1993
SVN	Slovenia	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1920	1992	1992
ESP	Spain	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1909	1904	1954
SWE	Sweden	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1904	1904	1954
SUI	Switzerland	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1895	1904	1954
TUR	Turkey	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1923	1923	1962
UKR	Ukraine	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1991	1992	1992
WAL	Wales	Men's U21 U19 U17 Women's U19 U17	1876	1910	1954

Notes

↑ 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.
↑ Icelandic top-flight club football dates back to 1912 or 35 years prior to founding of KSI, All titles pre-1947 are recognized by KSI
↑ 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.
↑ Israel had been an associated member of UEFA since 1992, therefore Israeli clubs were entitled to take part in the 1992–93 and 1993–94 UEFA club competitions despite Israel not being a full UEFA member.
↑ Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1994–2002), joined UEFA.
↑ Founded as Związek Polski Piłki Nożnej (part of the disintegrated Austrian Football Union) in 1911, a predecessor to the current federation.

Former members

Saarland Football Union (1954–1956), joined Football Association of West Germany
Football Association of East Germany (1954–1990), joined Football Association of West Germany as German Football Association
Football Federation of the Soviet Union (1954–1991); in 1992 the Soviet Union was dissolved into 15 republics (10 in Europe and 5 in Asia) with the Russian Football Union being acknowledged as the direct successor of the Football Federation of the Soviet Union; in spring and summer of 1992 it was represented by teams of the Commonwealth of Independent States
Football Association of Yugoslavia (1954–1992); in 1992 Yugoslavia collapsed, with various federal republics becoming independent states, leaving only Serbia and Montenegro as part of FR Yugoslavia (which was renamed the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro in 2003); the Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro was acknowledged as the direct successor of Football Association of Yugoslavia. Four other successor republics formed their own football organisations.
Football Association of Serbia and Montenegro (1992–2006); in 2006 the union state was dissolved with the Football Association of Serbia becoming its successor. Montenegro, which exited the union, created the Football Association of Montenegro. It competed as FR Yugoslavia until 2003 when the country changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro.
Football Association of Czechoslovakia (1954–1993), became Football Association of the Czech Republic and Slovak Football Association with the Football Association of the Czech Republic acknowledged as its direct successor.

Sanctions

Against associations

Lithuania, in 1990 sanctions were imposed due to succession of Lithuanian Football Federation from the Football Federation of Soviet Union
Yugoslavia, in 1992-1998 sanctions were imposed due to the Bosnian War (as part of Yugoslav Wars)

Against clubs (restrictions against associations)

England, in 1985-1991 sanctions were imposed against English association football clubs due to the Heysel Stadium disaster by suspending their participation in continental competitions for five years
Netherlands, in 1991-1992 sanctions were imposed against AFC Ajax due to its fans, the Netherlands were restricted from the European Cup to which Ajax qualified
Albania, in 1967 special sanctions were imposed against 1966–67 Albanian Superliga due to its political background
1968–69 the Warsaw Pact demonstrated political protest and imposed sanctions on clubs of its members in continental competitions (included East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Soviet Union)

Competitions

UEFA runs official international competitions in Europe and some countries of Northern, Southwestern and Central Asia for national teams and professional clubs, known as UEFA competitions, some of which are regarded as the world's most prestigious tournaments.

International

The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European 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 organised the UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup with CAF for youth teams in an effort to boost youth football. 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. Despite the existence of UEFA's Futsal and Beach soccer committee, UEFA does not organise any beach soccer competitions. International and club beach soccer competitions for UEFA members are organised externally by Beach Soccer Worldwide.

The Italian, German, Spanish, French and Russian^[6] men's national teams are the sole teams to have won the European football championship in all categories.

Club

UEFA member countries by club competition entry entitlements, 2009/10

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 to 1992 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 UEFA 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 Europa League (previously the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup), and came into being in 1973.^[7]^[8]^[9]

The UEFA Intertoto Cup was a summer competition, previously operated by several Central European football associations, which was relaunched and recognised as official UEFA club competition by UEFA in 1995.^[10] The last Intertoto Cup took place in 2008.

The European/South American Cup was jointly organised with CONMEBOL between the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores winners.^[11]

Only five teams^[12]^[13] (Juventus, Ajax, Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Chelsea^[14]) have won each of the three main competitions (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, European Cup Winners' Cup/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League),^[15] a feat that is no longer possible for any team that did not win the Cup Winners' Cup. There are currently eight 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 four require a UEFA Europa League win.

Juventus of Italy was the first team in Europe—remaining the only one to date (2015)—to win all UEFA's official championships and cups^[16] and, in commemoration of achieving that feat, have received The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.^[17]^[18]

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 recognised as official by UEFA.

Current title holders

Competitions	Champions	Title	Runners-up	Next edition
Clubs
UEFA Champions League	Real Madrid	13th	Liverpool	2018–19
UEFA Europa League	Atlético Madrid	3rd	Marseille	2018–19
UEFA Super Cup	Atlético Madrid	3rd	Real Madrid	2019
UEFA Youth League	Barcelona	2nd	Chelsea	2018–19
UEFA Futsal Champions League	Inter FS	5th	Sporting CP	2018–19
UEFA Women's Champions League	Lyon	5th	Wolfsburg	2018–19
Nations Men
UEFA European Championship	Portugal	1st	France	2020 (June–July)
UEFA Nations League	vacant	N/A	vacant	2018–19 (Sep.–May)
UEFA European U-21 Championship	Germany	2nd	Spain	2019 (June)
UEFA European U-19 Championship	Portugal	4th	Italy	2019 (July)
UEFA European U-17 Championship	Netherlands	3rd	Italy	2019 (May)
UEFA Futsal Championship	Portugal	1st	Spain	2022
Nations Women
UEFA Women's Championship	Netherlands	1st	Denmark	2021 (July)
UEFA Women's U-19 Championship	Spain	3rd	Germany	2019 (July)
UEFA Women's U-17 Championship	Spain	4th	Germany	2019 (May)
UEFA Women's Futsal Championship	vacant	n/a	vacant	2019

UEFA competitions

Clubs:

Defunct

National teams:

Intercontinental:

Defunct

Amateur:

UEFA Regions' Cup

Defunct

UEFA Amateur Cup

Nations with trophies

Nation	Men				Women			Futsal		Total
Nation	Euro	U21	U19	U17	Euro	U19	U17	Men's	Women's	Total
Spain	3	4	8	9	0	3	4	7	0	38
Germany^{[upper-alpha 1]}	3	2	4	3	8	6	6	0	0	32
France	2	1	7	2	0	4	0	0	0	16
Italy	1	5	1	1	0	1	0	2	0	11
Portugal	1	0	3	6	0	0	0	1	0	11
Russia^{[upper-alpha 2]}	1	2	2	3	0	1	0	1	0	10
Netherlands	1	2	0	3	1	1	0	0	0	8
England	0	2	2	2	0	1	0	0	0	7
Sweden	0	1	0	0	1	3	0	0	0	5
Bulgaria	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Turkey	0	0	1	2	0	0	0	0	0	3
Czech Republic^{[upper-alpha 3]}	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
Poland	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	3
Denmark	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2
Norway	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	2
Republic of Ireland	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
Serbia^{[upper-alpha 4]}	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Greece	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Hungary	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Scotland	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Ukraine	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	1

↑ Including East Germany and West Germany.
↑ Including the Soviet Union.
↑ Including Czechoslovakia.
↑ Including Yugoslavia.

Corruption and controversy

Dissatisfied fans across Europe have referred to the organisation as UEFA mafia, including in Russia's top league,^[26] in Bulgaria's top league,^[27] and in a Champions League group stage match held in Sweden.^[28] The term has also been covered for its use outside of stadiums, for example during a protest in Kosovo outside an EU building following the Serbia v Albania (UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying) match.^[29]

Following the 2015 FIFA corruption case, the current president of UEFA, Michel Platini, was also involved himself in the case. Swiss prosecutors accuse FIFA president Sepp Blatter of making a "disloyal payment" of $2m (£1.6m) to Mr Platini. Swiss attorney general, Michael Lauber, stated: "We didn't interview Mr Platini as a witness, that's not true. We investigated against him in between as a witness and an accused person".^[30]^[31] Both Platini and Sepp Blatter are currently under formal investigation by FIFA's independent ethics committee. On 8 October 2015, Platini was provisionally suspended for 90 days from any football-related activity.^[32]

League revenues

Annual revenue comparison. All figures in Euros.

Source is the Deloitte 2015 annual report, which uses 2013–14 figures.^[33]

Rank	League	Revenue	Revenue sources
1	English Premier League	3.9 bn	Broadcast revenue accounts for 50% of league revenue
2	German Bundesliga	2.3 bn	Commercial sponsorship accounts for 50% of league revenue
3	Spanish La Liga	1.9 bn	Real Madrid and Barcelona account for 56% of league revenue
4	Italian Serie A	1.7 bn	Matchday revenue accounts for 12% of league revenue
5	French Ligue 1	1.5 bn	Matchday revenue accounts for 11% of league revenue
6	Russian Premier League	636 m
7	English Championship	588 m
8	Turkish Süper Lig	444 m
9	Dutch Eredivisie	434 m

World Cup participation and results

Legend

1st – Champions
2nd – Runners-up
3rd – Third place^{[wc 1]}
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)
R1 – 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

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)	2018 (32)
Austria	×	4th	×^{[wc 2]}	×	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	R16 11th	R16 11th	R1 19th	R16 14th	•	•	QF 6th	3rd
Bosnia and Herzegovina	Part of Yugoslavia														×	•	•	•	•	R1 20th	•
Bulgaria	×	•	•	×	•	•	R1 15th	R1 15th	R1 13th	R1 12th	•	•	R16 15th	•	4th	R1 29th	•	•	•	•	•
Croatia	Part of Yugoslavia														×	3rd	R1 23rd	R1 22nd	•	R1 19th	2nd
Czech Republic^{[wc 3]}	×	2nd	QF 5th	×	R1 14th	R1 9th	2nd	•	R1 15th	•	•	R1 19th	•	QF 6th	•	•	•	R1 20th	•	•	•
Denmark	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	R16 9th	•	•	QF 8th	R16 10th	•	R1 24th	•	R16 11th
East Germany^{[wc 3]}	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	•	R16 9th	QF 6th	QF 7th	R16 13th	R1 26th	4th
France	R1 7th	R1 T-9th	QF 6th	•	R1 11th	3rd	•	R1 T-13th	•	•	R1 12th	4th	3rd	•	•	1st	R1 28th	2nd	R1 29th	QF 7th	1st
Germany^{[wc 3]}	×	3rd	R1 10th	×	1st	4th	QF 7th	2nd	3rd	1st	R2 6th	2nd	2nd	1st	QF 5th	QF 7th	2nd	3rd	3rd	1st	R1 22nd
Greece	×	•	•	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 24th	•	•	•	R1 25th	R16 13th	•
Hungary	×	QF 6th	2nd	×	2nd	R1 10th	QF 5th	QF 6th	•	•	R1 15th	R1 14th	R1 18th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Iceland	×	×	×	×	×	•	×	×	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 28th
Israel^{[wc 4]}	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 12th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Italy	×	1st	1st	R1 7th	R1 10th	•	R1 9th	R1 9th	2nd	R1 10th	4th	1st	R16 12th	3rd	2nd	QF 5th	R16 15th	1st	R1 26th	R1 22nd	•
Netherlands	×	R1 T-9th	R1 14th	×	×	•	•	•	•	2nd	2nd	•	•	R16 15th	QF 7th	4th	•	R16 11th	2nd	3rd	•
Northern Ireland	×	×	×	•	•	QF 8th	•	•	•	•	•	R2 9th	R1 21st	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Norway	×	×	R1 12th	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 17th	R16 15th	•	•	•	•	•
Poland	×	•	R1 11th	×	×	•	•	•	•	3rd	R2 5th	3rd	R16 14th	•	•	•	R1 25th	R1 21st	•	•	R1 25th
Portugal	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•	•	R1 17th	•	•	•	R1 21st	4th	R16 11th	R1 18th	R16 13th
Republic of Ireland^{[wc 5]}	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	QF 8th	R16 16th	•	R16 12th	•	•	•	•
Romania	R1 8th	R1 12th	R1 9th	×	•	•	•	•	R1 T-10th	•	•	•	•	R16 12th	QF 6th	R16 11th	•	•	•	•	•
Russia^{[wc 6]}	×	×	×	×	×	QF 7th	QF 6th	4th	QF 5th	•	•	R2 7th	R16 10th	R1 17th	R1 18th	•	R1 22nd	•	•	R1 24th	QF 8th
Scotland	×	×	×	••	R1 15th	R1 14th	•	•	•	R1 9th	R1 11th	R1 15th	R1 19th	R1 T-18th	•	R1 27th	•	•	•	•	•
Serbia^{[wc 3]}	4th^{[wc 7]}	•	•	R1 5th	QF 7th	QF 5th	4th	•	•	R2 7th	•	R1 16th	•	QF 5th	×	R16 10th	•	R1 32nd	R1 23rd	•	R1 23rd
Slovakia	Part of Czechoslovakia															•	•	•	R16 16th	•	•
Slovenia	Part of Yugoslavia														×	•	R1 30th	•	R1 18th	•	•
Spain	×	QF 5th	×	4th	•	•	R1 12th	R1 10th	•	•	R1 10th	R2 12th	QF 7th	R16 10th	QF 8th	R1 17th	QF 5th	R16 9th	1st	R1 23rd	R16 10th
Sweden	×	QF 8th	4th	3rd	•	2nd	•	•	R1 9th	R2 5th	R1 13th	•	•	R1 21st	3rd	•	R16 13th	R16 14th	•	•	QF 7th
Switzerland	×	QF 7th	QF 7th	R1 6th	QF 8th	•	R1 16th	R1 16th	•	•	•	•	•	•	R16 15th	•	•	R16 10th	R1 19th	R16 11th	R16 14th
Turkey	×	×	×	••	R1 9th	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•	•
Ukraine^{[wc 6]}	Part of Soviet Union														×	•	•	QF 8th	•	•	•
Wales	×	×	×	•	•	QF 6th	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Total	4	12	13	6	12	12	10	10	9	9	10	14	14	14	13	15	15	14	13	13	14

Notes

↑ There was no Third {{subst:lc:Place}} match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. FIFA recognizes the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia 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.
1 2 3 4 FIFA considers that the national team of Russia succeeds the USSR, the national team of Serbia succeeds Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro, the national team of Czech Republic succeeds Czechoslovakia, and the national team of Germany succeeds West Germany and East Germany.
↑ 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.
1 2 Russia's best result is quarter-finals in 2018. 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 and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

Women

Team	1991 (12)	1995 (12)	1999 (16)	2003 (16)	2007 (16)	2011 (16)	2015 (24)	2019 (24)
Denmark	QF 7th	QF 7th	R2 15th	•	R2 12th	•	•	TBD
England	•	QF 6th	•	•	QF 7th	QF 7th	3rd	TBD
France	•	•	•	R2 9th	•	4th	QF 5th	q
Germany	4th	2nd	QF 8th	1st	1st	QF 6th	4th	TBD
Italy	QF 6th	•	R2 9th	•	•	•	•	q
Netherlands	•	•	•	•	•	•	R2 13th	TBD
Norway	2nd	1st	4th	QF 7th	4th	R2 10th	R2 10th	TBD
Russia	×	•	QF 5th	QF 8th	•	•	•	•
Spain	•	•	•	•	•	•	R1 20th	q
Sweden	3rd	QF 5th	QF 6th	2nd	R2 10–11	3rd	R2 16th	TBD
Switzerland	•	•	•	•	•	•	R2 15th	TBD

FIFA Confederations Cup

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)	2017 (8)
Czech Republic	×	×	3rd	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Denmark	×	1st	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
France	×	•	•	••	1st	1st	•	•	•	•
Germany	×	•	••	GS	•	••	3rd	•	•	1st
Greece	×	•	•	•	•	•	GS	•	•	•
Italy	×	•	•	•	•	••	•	GS	3rd	•
Portugal	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	3rd
Russia	×	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	GS
Spain	×	•	•	•	•	••	•	3rd	2nd	•
Turkey	×	•	•	•	•	3rd	•	•	•	•

National team rankings

Highest Ranked UEFA member
in the men's FIFA World Rankings

Last updates:
- Men's national teams – 20 September 2018^[34]
- Women's national teams – 7 June 2018^[35]

Top men's national teams Rankings are calculated by FIFA.				Top women's national teams Rankings are calculated by FIFA.
UEFA	FIFA	Nation	Points	UEFA	FIFA	Nation	Points
1	1	Belgium	1729	1	2	Germany	2049
1	1	France	1729	2	3	France	2032
3	4	Croatia	1634	3	4	England	2026
4	6	England	1612	4	9	Netherlands	1977
5	7	Portugal	1606	5	11	Sweden	1941
6	8	Switzerland	1598	6	12	Spain	1911
7	9	Spain	1597	7	13	Denmark	1903
8	10	Denmark	1581	8	14	Norway	1887
9	12	Germany	1568	9	16	Italy	1870
10	15	Sweden	1550	10	18	Switzerland	1861
11	17	Netherlands	1540	11	19	Iceland	1823
12	18	Poland	1537	12	21	Scotland	1801
13	19	Wales	1536	13	22	Austria	1794
14	20	Italy	1526	14	23	Belgium	1773
15	24	Austria	1499	15	24	Ukraine	1731
16	26	Slovakia	1491	16	27	Russia	1702
17	27	Romania	1489	17	29	Wales	1679
18	28	Northern Ireland	1487	18	30	Finland	1678
19	29	Ukraine	1483	19	31	Republic of Ireland	1664
20	30	Republic of Ireland	1478	20	32	Czech Republic	1648
21	34	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1468	21	34	Portugal	1644
22	35	Serbia	1463	22	36	Poland	1629
23	36	Iceland	1461	23	40	Romania	1567
24	38	Turkey	1456	24	43	Serbia	1545
25	39	Scotland	1448	25	45	Hungary	1537
26	41	Montenegro	1444	26	46	Slovakia	1503
27	42	Greece	1433	27	52	Belarus	1431
28	44	Bulgaria	1430	28	53	Croatia	1425
29	46	Russia	1423	29	54	Slovenia	1423
30	47	Czech Republic	1418	30	56	Northern Ireland	1419
31	49	Hungary	1409	31	61	Turkey	1403
32	52	Norway	1405	32	63	Israel	1392
33	57	Albania	1383	33	65	Greece	1374
34	58	Finland	1378	34	66	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1373
35	61	Slovenia	1376	35	69	Azerbaijan	1360
36	68	Macedonia	1344	36	70	Kazakhstan	1353
37	80	Belarus	1304	37	74	Bulgaria	1340
38	82	Luxembourg	1292	38	75	Albania	1325
39	86	Cyprus	1283	39	81	Faroe Islands	1272
40	92	Faroe Islands	1261	40	89	Moldova	1228
41	93	Georgia	1254	41	90	Montenegro	1220
42	94	Israel	1247	41	90	Estonia	1220
43	98	Estonia	1240	43	92	Latvia	1209
44	100	Armenia	1225	44	95	Malta	1190
45	108	Azerbaijan	1202	45	97	Lithuania	1180
46	118	Kazakhstan	1160	46	100	Georgia	1145
47	126	Lithuania	1123	47	104	Luxembourg	1125
48	128	Andorra	1121	48	105	Cyprus	1120
49	131	Latvia	1116	49	109	Kosovo	1022
50	138	Kosovo	1092	50	136	Andorra	748
51	173	Moldova	958	N/A	N/A	Armenia**	1104
52	178	Liechtenstein	947	N/A	N/A	Macedonia**	1069
53	183	Malta	928
54	198	Gibraltar	891
55	204	San Marino	871

* – Provisionally listed due to not having played more than five matches against officially ranked teams.
** – Inactive for more than 18 months and therefore not ranked.

UEFA Executive Committee

President

Aleksander Čeferin

Vice-presidents

Karl-Erik Nilsson – First Vice-President^[36]
Fernando Gomes
Reinhard Grindel
Hryhoriy Surkis
Michele Uva

Members

General secretary

Theodore Theodoridis

Deputy general secretary

Giorgio Marchetti

Head of club competitions

Michael Heselschwerdt

Head of national compettitions

Lance Kelly

Honorary president

Lennart Johansson^[36]

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[FRA-founded-6] Founded as Comité Français Interfédéral in 1907, a predecessor to the current federation.

[FRA-FIFA-7] The current French FA, the French Football Federation (in its previous incarnation, the Comité Français Interfédéral), replaced the USFSA in 1907.

[ISL-8] Icelandic top-flight club football dates back to 1912 or 35 years prior to founding of KSI, All titles pre-1947 are recognized by KSI

[ISR-9] 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.

[ISR_Club-10] Israel had been an associated member of UEFA since 1992, therefore Israeli clubs were entitled to take part in the 1992–93 and 1993–94 UEFA club competitions despite Israel not being a full UEFA member.

[KAZ-11] Former member of the Asian Football Confederation (1994–2002), joined UEFA.

[POL-founded-12] Founded as Związek Polski Piłki Nożnej (part of the disintegrated Austrian Football Union) in 1911, a predecessor to the current federation.

[26] Including East Germany and West Germany.

[27] Including the Soviet Union.

[28] Including Czechoslovakia.

[29] Including Yugoslavia.

[1930_World_Cup-45] There was no Third {{subst:lc:Place}} match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. FIFA recognizes the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

[46] Austria qualified in 1938, but withdrew to play as part of Germany after being annexed.

[successor-47] 1 2 3 4 FIFA considers that the national team of Russia succeeds the USSR, the national team of Serbia succeeds Yugoslavia/Serbia and Montenegro, the national team of Czech Republic succeeds Czechoslovakia, and the national team of Germany succeeds West Germany and East Germany.

[48] 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-49] Republic of Ireland competed as the Irish Free State in 1934 and then as Ireland in 1938 and 1950.

[USSR-50] 1 2 Russia's best result is quarter-finals in 2018. However, FIFA considers Russia as the successor team of the USSR.

[wc1930-51] 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 and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team, using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.

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