Gibraltar Football Association

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Gibraltar Football Association
Gibraltar Football Association logo
founding 1895
FIFA accession May 13, 2016
UEFA accession May 24, 2013
president Desmond Reoch
National teams Men
women
Homepage www.gibraltarfa.com

The Gibraltar Football Association (GFA) is the governing body of football in Gibraltar . The GFA was a provisional member of UEFA from December 2006 to January 2007 and held this status again from October 2012 until it was finally accepted on May 24, 2013 as the 54th full member of UEFA. On May 13, 2016, the association became the 211th member of FIFA . The president of the association is Desmond Reoch .

history

The association was founded in 1895 as the Gibraltar Civilian Football Association , making it one of the oldest football associations in the world.

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In December 2006, Gibraltar was admitted as a provisional member of UEFA. At the UEFA General Assembly in Düsseldorf the following month, however, the application for full membership did not find a majority, even though the International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) had previously recommended that the Continental Federation accept Gibraltar as a member. In October 2012, Gibraltar was granted temporary member status again. The decision on full membership was made by the UEFA Congress on May 24, 2013 in London . The main problem until then was the resistance of Spain, which lays territorial claims to the possession of Gibraltar . On September 20, 2013, at a special meeting in an executive meeting in Dubrovnik , UEFA decided that GFA club teams would take part in the qualifications for the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League for the first time in the 2014/15 season . The national team will also take part in qualifying for the 2016 European Championship .

On September 26, 2014, the world football association FIFA refused the association membership on the grounds that Gibraltar was not an independent state . This decision was later revised and GFA was finally admitted to FIFA as the 211th member on May 13, 2016.

Competitions

National competitions

The following national competitions are held under the umbrella of GFA:

Participation in international competitions

The Gibraltar national football team took first in the qualification for the UEFA EURO 2016 in France in qualifying matches for European Football Championship in part.

National champions and cup winners take part in the qualifications for the European Cup competitions.

UEFA five-year ranking

Placement in the UEFA five-year ranking ( previous year's ranking in brackets ). The abbreviations CL and EL after the country coefficients indicate the number of representatives in the 2019/20 season of the Champions League and the Europa League .

Status: end of the European Cup season 2018/19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Martin Gruener : 22 clubs. A stadium. , kicker-Sportmagazin # 92/2014, Olympia-Verlag Nürnberg , November 10, 2014, pp. 84–87
  2. ↑ Gibraltar “temporarily included” ( Memento of December 9, 2006 in the Internet Archive ). Press release on the UEFA website dated December 8, 2006, accessed from the Internet Archive on October 2, 2012.
  3. ↑ Kevin Fylan: UEFA admits Montenegro report from Reuters of January 26, 2007, accessed on October 2, 2012 (English)
  4. ↑ Duncan Mackay Ruling paves way for Gibraltar to join Uefa report in the Guardian of September 20, 2006, accessed on October 2, 2012 (English)
  5. ^ Decisions of the Executive Committee in St. Petersburg . ( Alternative version ) UEFA press release of October 1, 2012, accessed the following day.
  6. ↑ Heute.at : Gibraltar clubs from 2014 in the Champions League from September 20, 2013
  7. ↑ FIFA refuses to accept Gibraltar - Blatter: Not an independent state. Kicker-Sportmagazin , September 26, 2014, accessed on September 27, 2014 .
  8. ↑ FIFA Congress moves football forward, first Secretary General appointed. In: de.fifa.com. FIFA, May 13, 2016, accessed May 19, 2016 .
  9. ↑ UEFA rankings for club competitions. In: UEFA. Retrieved July 14, 2019 .