Fédération Française de Football
| Fédération Française de Football | |
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| founding | 1919 |
| president | Noël Le Graët |
| National teams |
Men's national team , U-21 , U-20 , U-19 , U-18 , U-17 , U-16 women French women's national soccer team , U-23 , U-19 , U-17 |
| Seat | 87 Boulevard de Grenelle, 75015 Paris |
| Homepage | www.fff.fr |
The Fédération Française de Football (FFF) ( German- French Football Federation ) is the national football association of France . It is based in the 15th arrondissement of Paris on the Boulevard de Grenelle .
The association was founded on April 7, 1919 as the Fédération Française de Football Association (FFFA) ; the addition of Association (which stood for the distinction of association football from rugby ) accounted for around 1940. His predecessor, which was founded in 1887 were Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques (USFSA), the 1904-1908 France in soccer's governing body FIFA represented, and the Comité Français Interfédéral (CFI), an umbrella organization of several individual associations and a FIFA member between 1909 and 1919. The FFF is also a founding member of the European continental association UEFA , which was founded in 1954 after discussions and at the suggestion of the FFF, the Belgian and Italian associations.
structure
The FFF is generally subdivided into the Ligue de Football Professionell (LFP), which oversees professional sports ( Ligue 1 , Ligue 2 , French League Cup ) largely autonomously, as well as in 22 regional associations analogous to the administrative regions of the country that existed until the end of 2015 , which as a rule operate the amateur game operation of the sixth division ( Division d'honneur ) and the leagues below; the regional associations are in turn divided into districts. The central association itself, through its subdivision Ligue du Football Amateur (LFA), is responsible for the third to fifth France-wide league ( National , Championnat de France Amateur and Championnat de France Amateur 2), the upper women's football area ( Division 1 and 2 Féminine ) and the national teams the men , the women - each the A and A 'team, the latter are called in other countries often B-team - and youth cohorts. The national futsal team established in 1997 and the beach soccer team are also under the direction of the FFF.
Ten of France's overseas territories also have their own regional association and each operate their own league system, usually with a Division d'Honneur as the highest division, the winners of which could theoretically advance to CFA 2; However, this fails in practice due to the long distances to the French heartland ( France métropolitaine ). Until their independence (1956 and 1962), this was also regulated in the North African departments in what is now Tunisia and Algeria . The regional cup winners from overseas take part in the national cup competition, which is also run by the FFF, which has created a Commission de la Coupe de France for this purpose .
Furthermore, the FFF - immediately for the national and its subdivisions for the regional area - for the entire game operation in the women's and youth football and for refereeing responsible. In Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines the association maintains a national education, training and training center for youth, men and women footballers, coaches and the like. a. ( Center technique national Fernand-Sastre and Institut national de formation ). The budget for the 2010/11 financial year was based on just under € 200 million in revenue, including a good 45 million each from the national team supplier Nike and TF1 for television broadcasting rights, 14 million from other sponsors, 12.5 million from the LFP (earmarked for the promotion of the amateur sector) and 4 million from tickets for games of the various national teams. The year ended with a pre-tax profit of € 495,000, a clear improvement compared to 2009/10, in which the FFF recorded a loss of almost € 1.4 million.
Finally, the FFF has a codified right of co-determination and decision-making in the matters of organized football in business (partner association: the Fédération Française des Sports d'Entreprise / FFSE ), school ( Union Nationale du Sport Scolaire / UNSS , Union Française ), codified by bilateral agreements des Œuvres Laïques d'Éducation Physique / UFOLEP or Union Sportive de l'Enseignement du Premier Degré / USEP ), university ( Fédération Française du Sport Universitaire / FFSU ) and military sports ( Center National des Sports de la Défense / CNSD ) as well as the "Landsportbund" ( Fédération Nationale du Sport en Milieu Rural / FNSMR ). Even workers' sport ( Fédération Sportive et Gymnique du Travail / FSGT ), which also suffered greatly from loss of importance in France after the Second World War , and which - like the ATSB in Germany compared to the DFB - had always felt in opposition to "civil football", is 1975 entered into a convention with the FFF.
Regional associations in the heart of France
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Until 2017 there were the following 22 leagues:
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The regions with the largest number of members in 2012 were Paris-Île de France with 223,000, Rhône-Alpes with almost 183,000, Nord-Pas de Calais with 144,000 and Brittany with 139,000 club members; on the other hand, only a good 9,000 footballers are registered in Corsica and only 40,000 each in Maine and Franche-Comté. These regional leagues are also responsible for the operations of the respective Division d'Honneur .
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The FFF has for many years - even before the Second World War, a cup competition for representative teams of the Regions - (Coupe des Provinces de France or from 1973/74 Coupe Nationale des Ligues) organized; this is no longer held these days. The regional associations maintain regional selection teams , Brittany even two (for professional players and for amateurs, see Breton football selection ); the selection teams are now playing off the French participants in the UEFA Regions' Cup .
By December 31, 2017 at the latest, the football association had to adapt its structure to the regional reorganization of the state , as the responsible minister Patrick Kanner announced to the FFF president at the end of 2015. This arrangement had caused considerable displeasure in the Ligues, especially since it led to the dissolution of nine regional associations and also made it necessary to completely reorganize the amateur game operations below the fifth league level. The current 13 regional associations are:
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Overseas regional associations
| Surname | membership |
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| Ligue Guadeloupéenne de Football | Member of CONCACAF |
| Ligue de football de la Guyane française | Member of CONCACAF |
| Ligue de football de la Martinique | Member of CONCACAF |
| Comité de football des Îles du Nord ( Saint-Martin ) | Member of CONCACAF |
| Ligue de football de Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon | |
| Ligue Réunionnaise de football | associate member of the CAF |
| Fédération Tahitienne de football ( French Polynesia ) | Independent member of FIFA since 1990 |
| Fédération Calédonienne de football ( New Caledonia ) | FIFA member since 2004 |
| Ligue de football de Mayotte | |
| Ligue de football de Wallis-et-Futuna |
In 2012, the FFF in these overseas regions combined had 99,000 members, the least of which - apart from Wallis-et-Futuna and Saint-Martin, for which no figures are available - with 549 in Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon, while there were 29,430 in Réunion are.
These leagues and associations have their own national selection teams based on agreements with FIFA and FFF, some of which are also allowed to take part in international competitions such as World Cups or Gold Cups .
For the first time in 2008, the selection teams of seven of these associations (it was missing Saint-Martin, Wallis-et-Futuna and Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon) the tournament for the Coupe de l'Outre-Mer ("Overseas Cup "). The trophy will be played every two years.
Association bodies
The general meeting
The Federal Assembly (assemblée fédérale) of the FFF is the "Parliament of French Football" responsible for organizational elections and fundamental decisions. Around three quarters of it consists of representatives from the amateur sector and meets at least twice a year. On the basis of resolutions of the Federal Assembly, a total of 27 permanent commissions work that have been set up on a wide variety of topics. As a result of the fiasco in Knysna (2010), a reform of the association's structures was initiated, which was implemented for the first time in June 2011 through the election of the new bodies. Since then, the twelve-member Executive Committee (previously: the Federal Council) has been responsible for the operational business , to which the ten members of the list elected in the presidential election as well as the chairmen of the amateur (LFA) and the professional sector (LFP) belong as "born representatives"; the chairmanship is held by the FFF President. The work of this committee is controlled by the 20-member high authority of football , which is made up of two representatives of the various sub-groups ("families of French football") such as regional leagues and districts, football teachers, referees, amateur and professional players, female footballers as well Doctors or therapists. The voting weight of professionals in the Federal Assembly has risen from 25 to 37%, which means that the LFP has a blocking minority ; At the same time, the financial support of the amateurs by the professionals was fixed at at least 14.26 million euros per year.
The previous presidents
In the present the president is elected for four years; Re-election is possible. Due to the resignation of Jean-Pierre Escalettes in connection with the performance and performance of the national team at the World Cup in South Africa , the Federal Council elected Fernand Duchaussoy as an interim president on July 23, 2010 , but in the ordinary election on June 18, 2011, he elected Vice-President Noël Le Graët lost. In March 2017, Le Graët was confirmed in office for a further four years.
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DTN and DNCG
The most influential of the 27 FFF commissions is the Direction Technique Nationale (DTN), created in 1970 . Her main tasks are to coordinate the training of players at all levels (grassroots, youth, amateurs, professionals, elite) in order to “give French football a single face”, and to promote the long-term strategic development of football in France, for which she is make proposals to the President and the Executive Committee. It includes the national coaches of all teams as well as the regional technical advisers (conseillers techniques) . Particular importance is attached to the head of the committee, who at the same time "has to know French football inside out and should be a visionary". François Blaquart headed the DTN until spring 2017; Hubert Fournier takes on this function from summer of the year.
The previous directors were:
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The Direction Nationale du Contrôle de Gestion (DNCG) is of particular importance for the clubs ; As the authority responsible for licensing, it checks the fulfillment of the economic and organizational criteria and decides on the admission of each club to a sporting league level up to the professional level. To this end, it can also impose financial and personnel requirements.
Membership development
In 1921 there were only 35,000 footballers in 1,800 clubs, in 1925 there were already around 100,000 members in a good 2,900 clubs in the FFF; by the outbreak of World War II , those numbers grew to 189,000 active and passive footballers in 5,570 clubs. The further development is as follows (all figures rounded):
| year | Members | Clubs |
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| 1950 | 441,000 | 8,870 |
| 1960 | 418,000 | 8,680 |
| 1970 | 698,000 | 12,680 |
| 1980 | 1,413,000 | 20,410 |
| 1991 | 1,891,000 | nb |
| 2000 | 2,150,000 | 19,730 |
| 2007 | 2,321,000 | 17,500 |
| 2012 | 1,973,000 | nb |
| 2013 | 2,030,000 | nb |
The number of members in 2007 represents the highest level to date. Of the FFF members specified for the end of the 2011/12 season, 1.69 million active players (including around 59,400 women), 217,000 officials and almost 25,000 referees.
The FFF as the host of international tournaments
In addition to organizing world (1938, 1998, 2019 [women]) and European championships (1960, 1984, 2016), Confederation Cups (2003) and Olympic football tournaments (1924) for national teams in their own country, the association also has tournaments in the adult sector de France designated invitation tournaments in men's ( 1988 , 1997 ) and women's football (for the first time in 2020).
The Toulon tournament has enjoyed a high international reputation for young male footballers (U-21s) since 1974.
See also
- Main article Football in France
- French national soccer team , French women's national soccer team
- Ligue 1 , Ligue 2 , National (D3) , Championnat de France Amateur , Division 1 Féminin
- French football cup , Coupe de France feminin , Coupe Gambardella
- List of FIFA members
literature
- Thierry Berthou / Collectif: Dictionnaire historique des clubs de football français. Pages de Foot, Créteil 1999 - Volume 1 (A-Mo) ISBN 2-913146-01-5
- Pierre Delaunay / Jacques de Ryswick / Jean Cornu: 100 ans de football en France. Atlas, Paris 1982, 1983² ISBN 2-7312-0108-8
- Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2007. Vecchi, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-7328-6842-6
Web links
Remarks
- ^ Fédération Française de Football (ed.): 100 dates, histoires, objets du football français. Tana, o.r. 2011, ISBN 978-2-84567-701-2 , pp. 162/163 and 196
- ↑ France Football of May 4, 2010, pp. 30/31
- ↑ see this article ( memento of July 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on the association's website
- ↑ current agreements with the USEP and the FFSU on the side of the FFF
- ↑ Pages on the agreements between FFF and UFOLEP / USEP (PDF file; 37 kB), FFSE (from page 20) (PDF file; 37 kB), CNSD ( Memento of November 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), FFSU ( Memento from April 6, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), FNSMR ( Memento from January 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) and FSGT (PDF file; 26 kB)
- ↑ after this PDF
- ↑ There is no coherent , complete information on this either on the web or in the printed literature.
- ↑ Article "En territoires hostiles" ("In hostile terrain"), France Football of December 2, 2015, pp. 38–41
- ↑ Guillet / Laforge, p. 581
- ↑ For the current composition of the Executive Committee and Haute Autorité du Football, see the election results of June 18, 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the association side.
- ↑ see the summary ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the association side
- ↑ Election result on the association's website
- ^ Election results from March 18, 2017 at footofeminin.fr
- ↑ Jevain was installed by the Vichy government ; In fact, the high government commissioner for sport, Colonel Joseph Pascot, had the decision-making power.
- ↑ Obituary (February 10, 2020)
- ^ "In search of a new DTN" in France Football of November 23, 2010, pp. 28–31
- ↑ News from June 24, 2017 at France Football
- ^ Alfred Wahl: Les archives du football. Sport et société en France (1880-1980). Gallimard, o. O. 1989 ISBN 2-07-071603-1 , p. 179
- ↑ after France Football of June 25, 2013, p. 10
- ↑ Figures according to this association page (PDF; 78 kB)
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