Take a look at the official Powerchair Football Presentation Video! Use Medium Quality (MQ) if your connection happens to be “not so fast”, High Quality (HQ) otherwise … Choose your langage,(English, Français, German, Italiano, Espanol, Deutsch, Nederlands, Portugues, Dansk, Sverige, Norsk), to take advantage of subtitles. To get the DVD, send a request at: contact@fipfa.org.

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The internationalising of Powerchair Football is on the march today. As modeled by the French assisting Belgium in 2002 and Portugal in 2003 to discover the discipline, FIPFA would like to continue to develop these initiatives and create “promotional” clinics. Our goal is to further pursue development, increase our influence at the 4 corners of the planet and multiply the competitions and the exchanges in order to allow this sport to become accessible to as many people as possible, and to be known by all. (more…)

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FIPFA organised the first World Cup in the history of the discipline in October 2007 in Tokyo, Japan. Eight countries competed to win the first international competition of Powerchair Football. Broadcast live on the Internet, a Japanese website indicated the competition was visited by several thousand players and supporters all over the world! (more…)

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This competition, organised in Europe under the authority of the European Powerchair Football Association (EPFA), brings together the best 8 clubs in Europe. Based on the same principle as the Champion’s League, the premier competition of able-bodied European football, the initial games took place in France in the autumn of 2008 when the first title of European Club Champion was awarded.

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Several countries have already played wheelchair football in competition for a number of years, in different forms:

• national structured championships in France, with almost 70 clubs, in Japan with almost 60 clubs, in England with thirty official clubs and in USA with over than 30 teams
• regional tournaments in Portugal and in USA
• national cups in France and Belgium

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Powerchair Football is a team sport played in a power wheelchair that respects the sale rules as football:

• an indoor basketball court with a specific floor marking
• powerchair adapted to the play of football thanks to a footguard that that enables the player to control and hit the ball (more…)

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THE BALL

The official ball is spherical with a smooth surface of 33 cm (13 inches) diameter.

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