Some UEFA members are not sovereign states, but form part of a larger recognised sovereign state in the context of international law. One UN member state (Monaco) and one UN observer state (Vatican City) are not members. UEFA membership coincides for the most part with recognition as a sovereign country in Europe (48 out of 55 members are sovereign UN member states), although there are some exceptions. They moved to Nyon, Switzerland, in 1995, where they operated out of temporary offices until 1999 while the organisation's current headquarters were under construction. UEFA's main headquarters after its foundation were located in Paris, but moved to Bern in 1960. UEFA grew to more than 50 members by the mid-1990s, as new associations were born out of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia into their constituent states. However, 6 other associations which were not present were still recognised as founding members, bringing the total of founding associations to 31. At the founding meeting, 25 members were present. UEFA was inaugurated on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations. 4.2 World, Olympic and intercontinental competitions.The current president is Aleksander ДЊeferin, a former Football Association of Slovenia president, who was elected as UEFA's seventh president at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens in September 2016, and automatically became a vice-president of the world body FIFA. Henri Delaunay acted as the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz as the first president. UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs nation and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, and UEFA Super Cup, and controls the prize money, regulations, and media rights to those competitions. Because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national representative teams and club teams from any FIFA and UEFA competitions. UEFA consists of 55 national association members.

It is one of six continental confederations of world football's governing body FIFA. It administers football, futsal and beach soccer in Europe as well as Israel in Asia and the Euroasian transcontinental countries of Russia, Turkey, Cyprus, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and Kazakhstan. The Union of European Football Associations ( UEFA / j uЛђ Л€ eЙЄ f Й™/ yoo- AY-fЙ™ French: Union des associations europГ©ennes de football German: Union der europГ¤ischen FuГџballverbГ¤nde) is one of FIFA's six continental governing bodies for association football.

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