The Yemen Football Association ( ar, الاتحاد اليمني لكرة القدم) is the governing body of football in

Yemen Yemen (; ar, ٱلْيَمَن, al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen,, ) is a country in Western Asia. It is situated on the southern end of the Arabian Peninsula, and borders Saudi Arabia to the Saudi Arabia–Yemen border, north and ...

. The organisation joined

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 ...

in 1980 as the

Yemen Arab Republic The Yemen Arab Republic (YAR; ar, الجمهورية العربية اليمنية '), also known simply as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a country from 1962 to 1990 in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen.The United States extend ...

, commonly known as North Yemen. In 2005 the YFA was suspended by FIFA due to serious interference by political authorities in the internal affairs of the association, violating Article 17 of the FIFA Statutes.

Former Presidents

* Ali Al Ashwal 1987-2000 * Mohammed Abdel-ilah Al Qadhi 2000-2006 * Ahmed Saleh Al-Eissi 2006–present

Association staff

References

External links

Yemen Football Association
at the FIFA website.

at AFC site
Official website

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Football in Yemen Sports organizations established in 1962

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