Football for Unity in Diversity

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

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UEFA joins the social media boycott

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

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UEFA lays foundations for more sustainable future

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

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UEFA postpones youth national team competitions

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

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ITC and UEFA Foundation for Children launch life-skills curriculum

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

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UEFA unveils heading guidelines for youth players

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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