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FIFA International Match Calendar
The FIFA International Match Calendar (sometimes abbreviated as the FIFA Calendar) is an outline agreement between FIFA, the six continental football confederations, the European Club Association, and FIFPro, which sets out which dates can be used for "official" and "Exhibition game#Association football, friendly" international matches. Individual periods of these dates are commonly referred to as "international breaks". The current dates are within five windows: in March, June, September, October, and November. The match calendar also determines when international competitions such as the AFC Asian Cup, Africa Cup of Nations, Copa América, CONCACAF Gold Cup, OFC Nations Cup, UEFA European Championship, FIFA World Cup, and the Summer Olympic Games, Summer Olympics can take place. Official matches have a release period of four days, which means that players can take up to four days away from club duties to partake in national team duties. If a player participates in an official ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (), more commonly known by its acronym FIFA ( ), is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain (represented by Real Madrid CF), Swedish Football Association, Sweden, and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must also be members of one of the six regional confederations: Confederation of African Football, CAF (Africa), Asian Football Confederat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2027 AFC Asian Cup
The 2027 AFC Asian Cup will be the 19th edition of the AFC Asian Cup, the quadrennial international men's association football, football championship of Asia organised by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). The tournament involves 24 national teams after the expansion in 2019 AFC Asian Cup, 2019. It will be held in Saudi Arabia from 7 January to 5 February 2027. The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle, after the 2023 AFC Asian Cup, 2023 edition was postponed to 2024 due to the removal of China as hosts, and high summer temperatures in Qatar. Qatar national football team, Qatar are the two-time defending champions. Host selection AFC confirmed the list of member associations expressed their interests to host 2027 Asian Cup before the 30 June 2020 deadline, and they gave their necessary letters of undertaking in November. On 17 October 2022, the AFC Executive Committee announced that the host of the 2027 AFC Asian Cup would be chosen by the AFC Congress at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup
The 2026 AFC Women's Asian Cup will be the 21st edition of the AFC Women's Asian Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament in Asia competed by the women's national teams in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Australia was officially ratified as the host nation by the AFC Women's Football Committee on 15 May 2024. The final tournament will serve as the final stage of Asian qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup in Brazil. This will be the last time the qualifications will be linked, as a standalone qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup will be held starting from the 2031 edition onwards. For the first time, the final tournament will also serve as the penultimate stage of Asian qualification for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, with all eight quarter-finalists qualifying for the 2028 AFC Women's Olympic Qualifying Tournament. China are the defending champions. Host selection The following four football associations submitted their interest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Copa América Femenina
The 2025 Copa América Femenina will be the 10th edition of the main international women's football championship in South America, the Copa América Femenina, for national teams affiliated with CONMEBOL. The competition will be held in Ecuador from 12 July to 2 August 2025. This edition celebrates the 10th anniversary of the Copa América Femenina series. Brazil are the four-time defending champions. Unlike all previous editions, the tournament won't act as South American qualification for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup with a separate qualifying tournament being organised instead. It may however provide two slots for the 2028 Summer Olympics women's football tournament in Los Angeles and three more places for the 2027 Pan American Games tournament in Lima (in addition to Peru that qualified automatically as hosts). Teams All ten CONMEBOL women's national teams will participate. Venues The venues were announced on 5 May 2025. The matches were played in three stadiums in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2024 Women's Africa Cup Of Nations
The 2024 Women's Africa Cup of Nations (), officially known as the 2024 TotalEnergies Women's Africa Cup of Nations for sponsorship purposes and as WAFCON 2024 for short, will be the 15th edition of the biennial African women's football tournament organized by the Confederation of African Football. It will be hosted by Morocco in consecutive editions, having hosted the previous edition two years before. South Africa are the defending champions. Host selection CAF retained Morocco as hosts on 10 August 2022, thus becoming the first country to host back-to-back WAFCON editions. Qualification Morocco qualified automatically as hosts, while the remaining spots will be determined by the qualification rounds, whose draw was conducted on 6 July 2023 at the Mohammed VI Complex in Rabat, Morocco and will commence in August. Qualified teams The following teams have qualified for this edition of the tournament. Venues Rabat, Casablanca, Mohammédia, Oujda and Berkane were the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup
The 2025 OFC Women's Nations Cup will be the 13th edition of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, the quadrennial international football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the women's national teams of the Oceanian region. As with the previous tournament, it will be held in Fiji. It will take place between 4-19 July 2025. Papua New Guinea are the defending champions having beaten Fiji 2–1 in the previous final. Format The format will follow: *Final tournament: A total of eight teams will play in the tournament, which will be held in July 2025 in Fiji. For the group stage, they will be divided into two groups of four teams. The top two teams of each group will advance to the knockout stage (quarter-finals, semi-finals, positional play-offds and final) to decide the winner of the OFC Women's Nations Cup, however the winner will no longer qualify for the FIFA Women's World Cup with OFC instead opting to organise a separate qualifiers tournament. Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Women's Euro 2025
The 2025 UEFA Women's Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Women's Euro 2025 or simply Euro 2025, will be the 14th edition of the UEFA Women's Championship, the quadrennial international football championship organised by UEFA for the women's national teams of Europe. The tournament will be played in Switzerland from 2 to 27 July 2025. It will be the third edition since it was expanded to 16 teams. The tournament will return to its usual four-year cycle after the previous tournament was delayed to 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. England are the defending champions, having won the 2022 tournament. Host selection Applications were submitted in August 2022, while final submissions were made in October. Switzerland were selected as hosts of the tournament on 4 April 2023 at the UEFA Executive Committee in Lisbon, Portugal. To be appointed as hosts, an absolute majority of votes was needed in the first round. If the first vote did not produce an absolute majority, the two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asian Football Confederation
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal in most countries and territories in Asia. The AFC was formed in 1954. It has 47 members. The Asian Ladies Football Confederation (ALFC) was the section of AFC that managed women's association football in Asia. The group was independently founded in April 1968 in a meeting involving Taiwan, British Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore. In 1986, ALFC merged with AFC. Executive Committee Members 2026 FIFA World Cup Qualification Playoffs In June 2025, the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) confirmed that Qatar and Saudi Arabia will host the Asian qualifying playoffs for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The playoffs will feature six teams, comprising the third- and fourth-placed teams from the recent third round of Asian qualifiers. These teams will be divided into two groups of three, with the winners of each group advancing to the intercontinental playoff round. The deci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA
The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA ; ; ) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football. It governs football, futsal and beach soccer, beach football in Europe and the List of transcontinental countries#Asia and Europe, transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Kazakhstan, as well as the West Asian countries of Cyprus, Armenia and Israel. UEFA consists of 55 national association List of men's national association football teams#UEFA (Europe), members. Since 2022, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national teams and clubs from any FIFA and UEFA competitions. UEFA consists of the national football associations of Europe, and runs national and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, European Championship, UEFA Nations League, Nations League, UEFA Champions League, Champions League, UEFA Europa League, Europa League, UEFA Conference League, Conference League, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2030 FIFA World Cup
The 2030 FIFA World Cup will be the 24th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. Three countries will host the competition, representing, for the first time ever, two continents, - with Morocco, Portugal, and Spain as host nations. Moreover, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the FIFA World Cup, representatives of yet another continent, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, will each host one game; the latter of which hosted the first World Cup in 1930. The first game, alongside a special centenary celebration, will be held in Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay. The second and third games will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Asunción, Paraguay, respectively. The rest of the games will be held in Morocco, Portugal, and Spain. This will be the first World Cup held in North Africa as well as anywhere in Africa since 2010; in South America since 2014, as well as in E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2029 CONCACAF Gold Cup
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding . Evolution of the Hindu–Arabic digit Circa 300 BC, as part of the Brahmi numerals, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and Gupta started curving the bottom vertical line coming up with a -look-alike. How the numbers got to their Gupta form is open to considerable debate. The Nagari continued the bottom stroke to make a circle and enclose the 3-look-alike, in much the same way that the sign @ encircles a lowercase ''a''. As time went on, the enclosing circle became bigger and its line continued beyond the circle downwards, as the 3-look-alike became smaller. Soon, all that was left of the 3-look-alike was a squiggle. The Arabs simply connected that squiggle to the downward stroke at the middle and subsequent European change was purely cosmetic. While the shape of the glyph for the digit 9 has an ascender in most modern typefa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UEFA Euro 2028
The 2028 UEFA European Football Championship, commonly referred to as UEFA Euro 2028 or simply Euro 2028, will be the 18th UEFA European Championship, the quadrennial international association football, football championship. It will be co-hosted by England, the Republic of Ireland, Scotland, and Wales, and is projected to take place from 9 June to 9 July 2028. Spain national football team, Spain are the defending champions after winning the UEFA Euro 2024 final, 2024 final against England national football team, England, one of the upcoming hosts. Bid process On 23 March 2022, UEFA announced that three proposals had been received from countries declaring an interest in hosting the tournament: one from Russia, one from Turkey, and a joint bid by all five UEFA members from the British Isles including Northern Ireland. Russia and Turkey were simultaneously bidding to host UEFA Euro 2032, Euro 2032. Russia submitted its bids despite the ongoing ban by UEFA on Russian clubs and n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
