Seven Football for Unity festivals will be held in UEFA EURO 2020 host cities to showcase how football can create bridges between people and promote the social inclusion of third-country nationals in their host countries. The UEFA Foundation for Children teamed up with streetfootballworld, the European Football for Development Network and non-profit grassroots football organisations
Legacy ambitions include 120,000 more girls playing across England’s nine host cities by 2024 Tickets priced from £5 – £50, with over half a million tickets available for £25 or less With all 16 teams now confirmed for UEFA Women’s EURO 2022, a major ticketing roadmap and legacy programme have been unveiled to illustrate how
European football’s governing body will show solidarity in the fight against online discriminatory abuse with a silence on social media, starting on Friday 30 April UEFA has announced it will join a coalition of English footballing stakeholders, including the Football Association and the Premier League, by taking part in their social media boycott. UEFA will
UEFA’s revamped Women’s Champions League, set to kick off this summer, will herald the dawn of a more sustainable future for women’s football, thanks to a pioneering financial distribution model. The new model, introduced for the 2021/22 season and approved by UEFA’s Executive Committee last week, will see the world’s biggest women’s club competition redistribute
Fans will be able to select their favourite line-up from 50 women’s and men’s players before the deadline on 6 January Football supporters around the world are once again being invited to have their say as the polls open for the 2020 UEFA.com fans’ Team of the Year. Besides the traditional men’s poll, for the
The UEFA Referees Committee has announced that Esther Staubli will referee the 2020 UEFA Women’s Champions League final between VfL Wolfsburg and Olympique Lyonnais. The match will be played at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastián on Sunday 30 August at 20:00 CET. The 40-year-old Swiss, an international referee since 2006, will be taking charge
UEFA’s Together #WePlayStrong women’s football campaign has today released a documentary with FC Barcelona Femeni and Nigerian international Asisat Oshoala, as part of its Strong Is… documentary series, which follows the journey of some of the biggest names in women’s football to shine a light on the adversities they have faced and how football has
After consultation with UEFA’s 55 member associations, the UEFA Executive Committee has today taken several decisions regarding youth national team competitions considering the current COVID-19 situation across Europe. In order to alleviate the additional operational and financial burden on national associations – caused by hygiene conditions impacting travel and accommodation, as well as testing to
ITC, UEFA Foundation for Children and partners launch life-skills curriculum for young people in developing countries using football as coaching medium. A new curriculum using football to teach entrepreneurship and employability life skills to young people in developing countries is being launched by the International Trade Centre (ITC), the UEFA Foundation for Children, Kick4Life and
The guidelines were approved this week by the UEFA Executive Committee and fulfil a crucial need for a consensus document on heading guidance in youth football. Although the key findings of research commissioned by UEFA show that youth players have low amid ongoing debate about whether heading a football could potentially alter players’ brain structures
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