It’s a matter of equality, to make football, the world’s most popular sport, accessible to everyone!
The phenomenal success of this sport with both young people and adults throughout the world, provides a real challenge for people who use power wheelchairs in their everyday life. As well as being a great hobby, offering a formidable game for young people, Powerchair Football is also a true competition sport with championships in various countries all over the planet. (more…)
This sport appeared in Europe at the end of the nineteen-seventies.
1978 - France creates “Football in electric wheelchairs” for young people with severe disabilities.
1979 – Without having any contact with France, Canada starts to develop a sport called “Power Soccer”.
Since the beginning of the eighties, “Power Soccer” was exported to the United States and Japan,
while “Wheelchair Football” was being played in Belgium, in Portugal and in Switzerland.
Fipfa is governed by an Executive Council with 10 members, each elected for 4 years. The President supervises the proposals put forth by commissions that work together for the development of the discipline throughout the world.
Ten elected members:
The FIPFA Secretariat is composed of:
Every secretariat member remains in the secretariat until their contract expires. The Secretary General manages and maintains all of the FIPFA Secretariat responsibilities. He or she doesn’t necessarily have to be from an NOPF.
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Several countries have already played wheelchair football in competition for a number of years, in different forms:
2010 Affiliate and Associate Members
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…)
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.
The echos of enthusiastic enjoyment from the players in the first Americas Cup had scarcely faded from the Swannee sports halls, yet on Monday morning, 26 October 2009 six National Organisations of Powerchair Football gathered in a conference room in nearby Gwinnette Place for the biennial governing body of FIPFA (Belgium, Canada, England, France, Portugal as well as our host the US Powerchair Soccer Association). (more…)