The city of Zamość in Poland is 60km from the border with Ukraine, it has been a multi-cultural centre of learning and progress in Europe from its founding in the sixteenth century. It is also the furthest place to the south-east of FIPFA’s Europe Zone (as far as we know) to have a Powerchair Football club! (more…)

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and Paris, France – The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced that its Governing Board officially approved FIPFA as an International Federation.

Xavier Gonzalez, IPC Chief Executive Officer, met with (more…)

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EMBARGO: FOR RELEASE Wednesday, 11 November 2009

Interview Contact (in French, English): Herve Delattre, FIFPA President
Mobile telephone: +33 608 775 059 President@fipfa.org

Contact for Technical Questions (in English, French): Ms. Terrie Moore, FIPFA Secretariat.                                       Mobile telephone: +1 604 307 0675 International@fipfa.org

For more information about the sport of powerchair football and its organisation visit www.fi (more…)

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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…)

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How many people are actually playing Powerchair Football across the globe? We asked the question to the Directors of the 10 National Organisations affiliated to FIPFA. Many of them are beginning to differenciate between a sport that practices for competition and a sport that practices for leisure alone. While Belgium, (more…)

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Official Rules & Regulation of Powerchair Football:

• Approved February 28th, 2009.
• Formatted July 2009.

Powerchair Football_Laws of the Game Approved Feb_28_2009

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9 March 2009; Atlanta, Georgia – “The worst critics of referees are…other referees!” This statement was no truer than when a group of International referees attended the recent 2009 US Power Soccer Association (USPSA) Eastern Regional Championships. 16 officials from six countries (more…)

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On November 1st, 2nd and 3rd, FIFPA went to Switzerland, a new FIPFA associate member, to promote and develop Powerchair Football. The delegation included 8 players (7 France, 1 USA), 2 coaches (1 France, 1 USA), 2 referees (USA), Europe Zone President and FIPFA President who also is Director of the Development Commission. During 2 days, the delegation presented all the aspects of Powerchair Football: Federation organizational system, refereeing, equipment, team management, coaching, and playing.

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Douai (France), host the 1rst Eurpean Powerchampion’s League November 07-09, 2008. It was a successful, event with eight teams from four countries participating including Belgium, Denmark, France, and England. The gymnasium was packed with spectators above and arround the court. For the final match of Montauban (France) vs Villeneuve d’Ascq (France), Montauban took the advantage scoring the first goal with two minutes left in the first half. Each team had (more…)

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