The World Futsal Association (AMF) is the governing body of

futsal Futsal is a football-based game played on a hardcourt, hard court smaller than a football pitch, and mainly indoors. It has similarities to five-a-side football and Indoor soccer, indoor football. Futsal is played between two teams of five players ...

(football of salon 'futsalon'' in Spanish fútbol de salón 'microfutbol'' for both fully and non-independent states or regions, headquartered in Asuncion,

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. It was founded on 25 July 1971 as the International Futsal Federation (FIFUSA) in

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; on 1 December 2002, the organization was replaced, changed its name to Spanish version Asociación Mundial de Futsal.

Names

# FIFUSA (1971–2002) # AMF (2003–present)

History

:''See also Futsal History'' Futsal started in

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in 1930 when Juan Carlos Ceriani created a version of indoor football for recreation in

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s. In 1965, the South American Futsal Confederation was formed, consisting of Uruguay, Paraguay, Peru, Argentina and Brazil. The sport began to spread across South America, and its popularity ensured that a governing body was formed under the name of FIFUSA (Federación Internacional de Fútbol de Salón) in 1971, comprising Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal and Uruguay, along with the World Championships. The first FIFUSA World Championships were held in

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, with hosts Brazil crowned champions ahead of Paraguay and Uruguay. Even more countries participated in the second

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held in

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in 1985. Due to a dispute between

FIFA FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' ( French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was found ...

and FIFUSA over the name of ''fútbol'', FIFUSA registered the word futsal in 1985 (Madrid, Spain). In the 1990s, FIFA wanted to promote and spread its own version of indoor football, different from the original one played in the South American countries, but didn't manage to find an agreement with FIFUSA at the Rio de Janeiro Congress in 1989. In 2000, there was an attempt to repair the situation in

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, while FIFA was celebrating in this country holding its fourth World Championship of Fútsal. In 2002, FIFUSA was reorganised into World Futsal Association — AMF.

Organization

AMF competitions

The AMF and its respective confederations organize futsal tournaments around the world. The

AMF Futsal World Cup The AMF Futsal World Championships (previously called the FIFUSA Futsal World Championships) is the international championships for futsal, the indoor version of football organized by FIFUSA (1971–2002) and AMF (2003–present). The world cha ...

, which was first staged in 1982, is held every four years. A women's world cup was first staged in 2008. In 2017 the Brazil women's team became the first non-host nation to win the world championship.

Current title holders

References

External links

Asociación Mundial de Futsal (AMF)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Asociacion Mundial de Futbol de Salon Futsal organizations