Romanian Football Federation (FRF) is the governing body of football in Romania. The Federation organizes the national team and the women’s national team, as well as most of the Romanian football competitions, and it is affiliated to UEFA and FIFA. It is the largest sports organisation in Romania, comprising approximatively 230 affiliated members: clubs and football associations, that reunite about 150.000 women and men practicing football, as well as other people involved in the sport (coaches, technical staff, referees, club managers, members of the medical staff).

The Latvian Football Federation (LFF) (Latvian: Latvijas Futbola federācija) is the governing body of football in Latvia, based in the capital city of Riga. It organizes the Latvian football championship, including the Virslīga and lower leagues, the Latvian Football Cup, and oversees the Latvia national football team. The LFF has 100 member associations, including 172 clubs and 15,000 registered players. Approximately 90,000 people in Latvia are involved in Latvian football, making it the most popular sport in the country.

The Malta Football Association is the largest sports association in Malta with over 15,000 affiliated members between players, coaches, match officials, administrators, staff, volunteers and other stakeholders who are all part of the domestic football family. The vision of the Malta FA is to further strengthen its investment to build a stronger foundation, aiming at long-term development and the sustainability of Maltese football across all levels, from community, grassroots, amateurs, women and youths all the way to the elite, clubs and national team selections.

Football Social Responsibility

The Malta FA is fully committed to an inclusive policy of football social responsibility starting from within the association and its staff members and reaching out to football clubs and the communities they embrace, as well as all those who can in one way or another benefit from our social responsibility initiatives in a manner that is fully inclusive and creates a feel-good factor for the protagonists of our projects. In doing so we commit to create and engage in meaningful FSR projects that have a short term and long-term effect all round for all genders, all nationalities, all ages, and all abilities, to create better lifestyles and good football feel. Our Football Social Responsibility credo is one of full engagement strategies with the widest implications and involvement internally and externally. We understand the importance of reaching out and its short time and long-term positiveness. The creation of football communities, of people who meet to play and play to meet; of individuals becoming communities; of reaching in and then reaching out.

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Contact details: 

MALTA FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION

MILLENNIUM STAND, FLOOR TWO, THE NATIONAL STADIUM, TA’ QALI, ATD 4000

T +356 2338 6000 E INFO@MFA.COM.MT W WWW.MFA.COM.MT

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Make no mistake about it, the Irish Football Association is one of the true giants of world football. A lofty claim perhaps but despite a population well below two million, despite only having just over 960 registered clubs and despite being able to draw from a pool of approximately 25,000 players spread over less than 5,500 square miles the influence the association had - and still does - on the game across the globe is immeasurable.

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Founded in the Queens Hotel, Belfast back on 18th November 1880 the Irish Football Association is the fourth oldest governing body in the world behind the other three home associations. This inaugural meeting was at the behest of the Cliftonville club – the oldest in Ireland – who gathered clubs from Belfast and the outlying districts together with a view to creating a unifying constitution and set of rules along the lines of those adopted by their Scottish counterparts some seven years earlier.

The aims of this fledgling, but ambitious, body were to promote, foster and develop the game throughout the island. Clubs represented at this historic gathering, alongside Cliftonville, were Avoneil, Distillery, Knock, Oldpark, Moyola Park and the Limavady-based Alexander.

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Football itself first came to Ireland a couple of years earlier when Scottish clubs Queens Park and The Caledonians staged an exhibition at the Ulster Cricket Ground, Ballynafeigh after John M. McAlery, the first secretary of the new association, had discovered the game whilst on honeymoon in Edinburgh.

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Major Spencer Chichester was appointed President and plans were formulated to stage a Challenge Cup competition, eventually won by Moyola Park in a 1-0 defeat of Cliftonville on 9th April 1881.

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International football followed soon after although a 13-0 defeat at the hands of England at the Knock Ground, Bloomfield in 1882 wasn't quite the start that might have been desired.

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Thankfully performances have come a long way since then with three World Cup finals appearances to our credit and a series of legendary players being produced from the likes of Peter Doherty, Danny Blanchflower and Pat Jennings to, arguably, the greatest of them all, a certain George Best.

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