The Kuwait Football Association ( ar, الإتحاد الكويتي لكرة القدم) is the governing body of

football in Kuwait Football is the most popular sport in Kuwait. Kuwait Football Association The Kuwait Football Association ( ar, الإتحاد الكويتي لكرة القدم) is headquartered in Udailiya, Al-Ittihad Street, Kuwait City. The Kuwait Football ...

. Kuwait has thrice been suspended by FIFA for political interference since 2007 and were allowed to participate in the 2011 Asian Cup qualifying campaign and other international competitions on a provisional basis.

Association Staff

FIFA Suspension

Contrary to the road map established by

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 the AFC, the Kuwaiti Public Authority for Youth and Sport continued to interfere. Elections were held on 9 October in direct violation of the FIFA Executive Committee's May 2007 decision to the contrary. As a consequence, the committee recommended to the FIFA Executive Committee that the Kuwait Football Association be unsuspended. Kuwait's football federation board resigned days after world governing body FIFA unsuspended the Gulf Arab state. The suspension was lifted after the federation said it will ratify new statutes to prevent government interference in the sport as demanded by FIFA. "Otherwise FIFA will immediately suspend the (federation) again," FIFA said in a statement. The suspension was conditionally lifted and extended by the FIFA Congress in June 2009. FIFA was closely monitoring the situation within Kuwait. On 16 October 2015, FIFA suspended Kuwait and all remaining results from AFC Asian Cup and FIFA World Cup qualification were added as forfeits while all Kuwaiti teams that were participating in international competitions were withdrawn. Kuwait tried to get the suspension lifted at the 66th FIFA Congress but this was rejected and therefore from the earlier announcement on 27 April 2016, the hosting of the Arabian Gulf Cup tournament was moved to Qatar. The suspension was eventually lifted on 6 December 2017 after Kuwait's adoption of a new sports law.

Competitions

* STC Premier League *

Kuwaiti Division One The Kuwaiti Division One is a second-tier professional Kuwaiti football league. Winners of the league are promoted to the Kuwait Premier League. Kuwaiti Division One was introduced for the 2006–07 season, when the bottom 6 clubs in the Premier ...

Kuwaiti Futsal League The Kuwaiti Futsal League started in 2009 Which was inspired b Al-roudan Famous Tournemnt. The first ever Champion was Al-Yarmouk SC of the 2009-10 season. Champions * 2009-10: Al-Yarmouk SC * 2010-11: Al-Yarmouk SC * 2011-12: Al-Salmiya SC * 2 ...

* Kuwait Joint League (defunct) *

Kuwait Emir Cup The Kuwait Amir/Emir Cup ( ar, كأس أمير الكويت) is a Kuwaiti football competition created in 1962. The Emir Cup, is the last football competition held in the Kuwaiti football season. It is considered the most valuable cup. Al Arabi ...

Kuwait Crown Prince Cup The Crown Prince Cup ( ar, كأس ولي العهد) is a Kuwaiti domestic annual football competition created in 1994. Previous winners *1994 : Kuwait SC *1995 : Kazma SC *1996 : Al Arabi SC *1997 : Al Arabi SC *1998 : Qadsia SC *1999 : Al Ar ...

* Al Khurafi Cup (defunct) *

Kuwait Federation Cup The Kuwaiti Federation Cup ( ar, كأس الاتحاد الكويتي) is a competition organised by the Kuwait Football Association, the Kuwaiti version of a League cup and has been played in its current format every year since 2008. The first e ...

Kuwait Super Cup The Kuwait Super Cup ( ar, كأس السوبر الكويتي) is an annual one-match association football competition in Kuwait organised by Kuwait Football Association (KFA). This competition serves as the season opener and is played between the ...

Kuwaiti Futsal Federation Cup The Kuwaiti Futsal Federation Cup started in 2009 in which Al-Fahaheel FC won against Al-Salmiya SC to be crowned the first champion along with Al-Yarmouk SC winning the Kuwaiti Futsal League. Champions * 2009–10: Al-Fahaheel FC * 2010–11: ...

* Kuwaiti Futsal Super Cup

Friendly Competitions

*Kuwait Champions Challenge

Current champions

Defunct/paused

References

External links

Official website

at the FIFA website.

at AFC site {{UAFA Football Football in Kuwait

Kuwait Kuwait (; ar, الكويت ', or ), officially the State of Kuwait ( ar, دولة الكويت '), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated in the northern edge of Eastern Arabia at the tip of the Persian Gulf, bordering Iraq to the nort ...

Football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

Sports organizations established in 1952 1952 establishments in Kuwait