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{{Short description|Football Governing Body}}
{{Infobox organization
| name                = International Amateur Association Football Union
| native_name         = '''''Union Internationale Amateur de Football Association''''' ([[French language|French]])
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| founded             = {{Start date|1909|03|18}}
| founding_location   = [[Paris]], [[France]]
| dissolved           = 1912
| abbreviation        = UIAFA
| region_served       = Worldwide
| type                = Football federation
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The '''''Union Internationale Amateur de Football Association''''' ('''UIAFA'''; [[French language|French]] for International Amateur Association Football Union) was an international governing body of [[association football]] which competed with [[FIFA]] for a short time between [[1909]] and [[1912]].<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zXv_CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1967 |title=Goal! A cultural and social history of modern football |chapter=A Game for the Elite |author1=Christian Koller |author2=Fabian Brandle |publisher=CUA Press |year=2015 |isbn=9780813227276 |page=42 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mYBtMajLAaAC&pg=RA1-PA237 |title=Sports around the World: History, Culture, and Practice [4 volumes] |chapter=Association Football, Italy |author=John Nauright |publisher=ABC-CLIO |year=2012 |page=237 |isbn=9781598843019 }}</ref><ref name="rsssf">{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesx/xporoobeke1911.html |title=Grand Tournoi Européen (Roubaix) 1911 |website=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) |accessdate=2 May 2023 }}</ref><ref name="fecf">{{cite web |url=http://lafutbolteca.com/la-federacion-espanola-de-futbol-i/ |title=La Federación Española de Fútbol (I) |trans-title=The Spanish Football Federation (I) |website=La Futbolteca |author=Vicent Masià |date=June 2011 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
== History ==
[[File:Grand Tournoi Européen de football 1911.jpg|right|thumb|Stadium de Roubaix during the 1911 Great European Tournament.]]
In 1907 there was a split in English football between the [[Amateur Football Association]] (AFA) and the [[Football Association]] (FA) during the conflict between amateurism and professionalism. The AFA tried to join [[FIFA]], but was not admitted. In solidarity, the ''[[Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques]]'' (USFSA), which in that moment was the French FIFA member, left the organization, being replaced by the ''Comité français interfédéral'' (CFI).<ref name="rsssf"/><ref name="bleues">{{cite web |url=https://www.chroniquesbleues.fr/Quand-Roubaix |title=Quand Roubaix accueillait le premier championnat d'Europe, en 1911 |trans-title=When Roubaix hosted the first European Championship, in 1911 |author=Matthieu Delahais |website=Chroniques bleues |date=9 April 2020 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=fr }}</ref>
On the other hand, in [[Kingdom of Bohemia|Bohemia]] there was the ''[[Football Association of the Czech Republic|Český svaz footballový]]'' (ČSF; Czech Football Federation), which had joined FIFA in 1906, but was later expelled from the international organization on 8 June 1908 during the congress held in [[Vienna]] due to objections from the [[Austrian Football Association]] (''Österreichischer Fußball-Verband'', ÖFV), as Bohemia was part of the [[Cisleithania|Austrian-administered territory]] within [[Austria-Hungary]].<ref name="wiener">{{cite news |url=https://www.wienerzeitung.at/nachrichten/sport/fussball/2107522-Der-geheime-Europameister.html |title=Böhmen - der geheime Europameister |trans-title=Bohemia - the secret European champion |newspaper=[[Wiener Zeitung]] |date=9 June 2021 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=de }}</ref>
These three federations not associated with FIFA founded the UIAFA (''Union internationale amateur de football Association''),<ref>{{cite news |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k53252223/f1.item |title=Una nouvelle Fédération Internationale |trans-title=A new International Federation |newspaper=[[:fr:Les Jeunes (journal)|Les Jeunes]] |number=47 |date=19 December 1908 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |page=1 |language=fr }}</ref> which was established in [[Paris]] on 18 March 1909.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46240854/f5.item |title=Football association. Aprés le match France-Angleterre (A.F.A.) |trans-title=Association football. After the France-England match (A.F.A.) |newspaper=[[:fr:L'Auto|L'Auto-Vélo]] |number=77 |date=20 March 1909 |volume=3 |page=5 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=fr }}</ref> British [[Prince Arthur of Connaught]] was named honorary president of the organization.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=2 May 2023|date=20 March 1909|language=fr|newspaper=[[:fr:Le Peuple français (1893)|Le Peuple français]]|number=78 [Year XVIII]|page=4|title=Une nouvelle Fédération Internationale|trans-title=A new International Federation|url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k2951929t/f4.item}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> The first president was Victor E. Schneider, who had been vice president of FIFA.<ref name="rsssf"/> At the [[FIFA Congress]] held in [[Budapest]] in 1909, the matches between clubs of its member associations and UIAFA clubs were prohibited.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nemzetisport.hu/minden_mas_foci/20090610/fifa_budapesten_szuletett_meg_a_szervezet_elso_jelentos_dontese-200269 |title=FIFA: Budapesten született meg a szervezet első jelentős döntése |trans-title=FIFA: The organization's first major decision was made in Budapest |newspaper=[[Nemzeti Sport]] |date=10 June 2009 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=hu }}</ref>
On 15 October 1909, the ''Federación Española de Clubs de Football'' (FECF; Spanish Federation of Football Clubs), a forerunner of the current [[Royal Spanish Football Federation|RFEF]], joined the UIAFA.<ref name="fecf"/> The ''Fédération Belge des Sports Athlétiques'' (FBSA), a Belgian rebel federation, became member in February 1910.<ref name="rsssf"/> At the congress held in January 1911, a Swiss federation, the ''Ligue Sportive Suisse'' (LSS), joined the organization.<ref name="lss1">{{cite news |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k3378738/f3.image |title=Dernière heure. Fédérations des sports |trans-title=Breaking. Sports federations |newspaper=[[:fr:La Dépêche de Brest et de l'Ouest|La Dépêche de Brest]] |number=256 |date=5 January 1911 |volume=9 |page=3 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=fr }}</ref><ref name="lss2">{{cite news |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k76261864/f7.item |title=La vie sportive. Athletisme |trans-title=Sports life. Athletics |newspaper=[[:fr:Le Journal|Le Journal]] |number=675 |date=5 January 1911 |volume=6 |page=7 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=fr }}</ref><ref name="lss3">{{cite news |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4130957r/f3.image |title=Football leaders meet |newspaper=[[New York Herald|The New York Herald - European edition - Paris]] |number=164 |date=6 January 1911 |volume=27 |page=3 |accessdate=2 May 2023 }}</ref> Also was reported the presence of an Austrian association in the meeting.<ref name="lss1"/><ref name="lss2"/><ref name="lss3"/> Some sources say that another two federations representing [[British East Africa]] and [[South America]] also joined UIAFA in that same congress.<ref name="rsssf"/> That same year the UIAFA organized a European championship in [[Roubaix]] during the International Exposition of the North of France. The competition was called [[Great European football tournament]] (In [[French language|French]] ''Grand Tournoi européen de football'')<ref>{{cite news |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4630504f/f5.item |title=Au Stadium de Roubaix |trans-title=At the Roubaix Stadium |newspaper=[[:fr:L'Auto|L'Auto-Vélo]] |number=867 |date=18 May 1911 |volume=3 |page=5 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=fr }}</ref> and was won by the Bohemian national team.<ref name="rsssf"/><ref name="bleues"/><ref name="wiener"/><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5777760g/f2.zoom.r=Roubaix%20tournoi%20international%20football%201911.langEN|title=La Semaine Sportive|trans-title=Sports Week|date=4 June 1911|newspaper=Dunkerque Sports|number=143|accessdate=2 May 2023|language=fr}}</ref>
On 28 May 1911, the Związek Footballistów Polskich (ZFP; in English: Association of Polish Footballers) applied for membership. This was a federation formed in [[Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria|Austrian Galicia]] at the initiative of the Polish club [[Wisła Kraków]], which had already belonged to the UIAFA since December 1910.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wisla.krakow.pl/aktualnosci/aktualnosci/109-lat-temu-z-inicjatywy-wisly-powstal-pierwszy-polski-zwiazek-pilkarski |title=109 lat temu z inicjatywy Wisły powstał pierwszy polski związek piłkarski |trans-title=109 years ago, on the initiative of Wisła, the first Polish football association was established |website=wisla.krakow.pl |date=21 May 2020 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |language=pl }}</ref><ref name="wisly">{{Cite web|url=http://historiawisly.pl/wiki/index.php?title=Wis%C5%82a_a_Zwi%C4%85zek_Footballist%C3%B3w_Polskich|title=Wisła a Związek Footballistów Polskich|trans-title=Wisła and the Polish Footballers' Association|accessdate=2 May 2023|website=historiawisly.pl|language=pl}}</ref> It would become a full member at the next congress to be held in [[Prague]] in 1912.<ref name="wisly"/><ref>{{cite news |url=http://mbc.malopolska.pl/dlibra/docmetadata?id=73084&from=publication |title=Football. |newspaper=[[:pl:Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny|Ilustrowany Kurier Codzienny]] |number=124 |date=1 June 1911 |accessdate=2 May 2023 |page=6 |language=pl }}</ref> However, the UIAFA became inactive.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://historiawisly.pl/wiki/index.php?title=Union_International_Football_Association|title=UIAFA|accessdate=2 May 2023|website=historiawisly.pl|language=pl}}</ref> The [[Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques|USFSA]] joined the CFI, recognized by FIFA, in December of that same year.<ref name="rsssf"/> In 1913 the Spanish FECF and its rival RUECF tried to join FIFA without success, something that was not achieved until the formation of the [[Royal Spanish Football Federation|RFEF]] that same year.<ref name="fecf"/> The English [[Amateur Football Association|AFA]] finally joined the [[The Football Association|FA]] in 1914.<ref name="rsssf"/> Lastly, after the disintegration of Austria-Hungary and the independence of Czechoslovakia, the ČSF became the [[Football Association of the Czech Republic|Czechoslovak Football Federation]] (ČSSF; ''Československý Svaz Footballový'').
== Members ==
* {{flagicon|England}} [[Amateur Football Alliance|Amateur Football Association (AFA)]]
* {{flagicon|Bohemia}} [[Football Association of the Czech Republic|Český svaz footballový (ČSF)]]
* {{flagicon|France}} [[Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques|Union des sociétés françaises de sports athlétiques (USFSA)]]
* {{flagicon|Spain|1785}} Federación Española de Clubs de Football (FECF)
* {{flagicon|Belgium}} Fédération Belge des Sports Athlétiques (FBSA)
* {{flagicon|Switzerland}} Ligue Sportive Suisse (LSS)
* {{flagicon|Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria}} Związek Footballistów Polskich (ZFP)
Also it was reported the membership of an Austrian federation in the 1911 congress,<ref name="lss1"/><ref name="lss2"/><ref name="lss3"/> and some sources say another two federations representing [[British East Africa]] and [[South America]] joined the organization in that congress.<ref name="rsssf"/>
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