The English FA was established in 1863 and governs the game and all its leagues in England. the body itself is known as the Football Association, although it has been a member of FIFA since 1905 and a member of UEFA since 1954. The FA is responsible for the England national football team, and subsequently generates considerable turnover each year. The key figures in the organisation are the Chief Executive and the Chairman, who liaise with and assist in appointing the England team’s manager. The current president is Prince William
Union of European Football Associations (UEFA)
Formed at a meeting on 15th June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland, UEFA was initially consist of just 25 national associations but now has 53 members. It is one of the six FIFA continental organisations and is by far the richest due to its governance of all European-wide club and international competitions; including the Champions League, the UEFA Cup, the European Championships, the UEFA Super Cup, the European-South American Cup, the UEFA Intertoto Cup and the UEFA Women’s Cup. The current president is Michel Platini.
Confederation of African Football
CAF represents the national football associations of Africa, runs continental national and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those competitions. CAF is one of the biggest of six continental confederations of FIFA. Although it is just three years younger than the UEFA, CAF still has a long way to go in order to improve the quality of the national and local competitions, and therefore, overcome a lot of naturally occurring obstacles, or other burdens such as; limited resources and either complete or partial lack of infrastructures, besides the high cost of transportation through different sides of the continent. Nevertheless, Africa produced skilled players and teams that match, and sometimes exceed Europeans, but, these isolated cases should not be self-deceptive into believing that Africa have achieved European standards in all the domains of football.
THE ASIAN FOOTBALL CONFEDERATION (AFC)
The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) is the governing body of Asian football and one of the six Confederations making up FIFA. AFC has 46 Member Associations and these represent more than half of the world’s population. In fact, just India and China have more than 2.5 billion people. The AFC was formed in 1954. Its headquarters is in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The AFC is responsible for running football in Asia. Among its various responsibilities are: regulating the game, drafting new laws to improve the sport, implementing the law, boosting grassroots and youth football, and conducting major competitions. The current President of AFC is Mohamed Bin Hammam, who is from Qatar.
the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF)
is the continent-wide governing body for football in North America, Central America and the Caribbean. Three South American entities, the independent nations of Guyana and Suriname, and the French department of French Guiana, are also members. CONCACAF was founded in its current form on 18 December 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico, by the fusion the NAFC and the CCCF, and it became one of the six continental confederations affiliated with FIFA. Its primary administrative functions are to organize competitions for national teams and clubs, and to conduct World Cup qualifying tournaments. In recent years, the region has been dominated by the United States and Mexico, who have each qualified for the last 4 World Cup tournaments and have won all but one of the editions of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.
