3 They are: AFC in Asia; CAF in Africa; CONCACAF IN Northern America, Central America and the Caribbean Islands; CONMEBOL in South America; and OFC in Oceania. Do you know what the main national football championships corresponding to the Italian Serie A are called in other European countries? Name as many as you can. Is there any international football tournament planned this year? head coach: commissario tecnico top-ranking: ai primi posti in classifica top scorer: capocannoniere 14 TO PLAY ORGANISATION AND MAIN TOURNAMENTS Football organisations around the world By the beginning of the 20th century, football had already spread outside the UK. In 1904, representatives of the football associations of six countries, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, founded the F d ration Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), which now includes 209 nations from all over the world. In 1954, the need to develop collaboration among European football federations led to the founding of the Union of European Football Associations, or UEFA, which counts 55 members as of 2024; after the foundation of UEFA in Europe, similar confederations of football clubs appeared in the other continents as well . National associations Every country belonging to FIFA or to a continental international football association has its own national football team; moreover, they organise their own national football championships among football clubs at different levels. In Italy, national championships are organised by the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio, or FIGC. The main national football championship is the Serie A one, where twenty clubs play; at a lower level, there are Serie B, Lega Pro Prima Divisione, and Lega Pro Seconda Divisione, all of which are professional championships. At the amateur level, the Lega Nazionale Dilettanti includes all the clubs with nonprofessional players; the most important championship among these is the Serie D one. Main international tournaments Football clubs and national teams periodically play in tournaments and championships organised by the international football associations; in particular: the UEFA European Championship (EURO), a tournament among national European teams held every four years; the UEFA Champions League, a competition among top-ranking European football clubs taking place every year; the UEFA Nations League, a competition held every two years among all of UEFA s member associations national teams divided into a series of groups, called Leagues, according to a ranking based on their recent results; the FIFA World Cup, organised every four years, alternately with the EURO championship, with national football teams from all over the world.