Some UEFA member associations allow teams from outside their association's main territory to take part in their "domestic" competition.
Countries which had been members of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) were also admitted to the European football association, such as Israel (because it had been banned from the AFC group in 1974) and Kazakhstan. Some UEFA members are transcontinental states (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkey) and others are considered part of Europe both culturally and politically (Cyprus and Armenia). These include England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales ( constituent countries of the United Kingdom), Gibraltar ( British Overseas Territory), the Faroe Islands (autonomous territory within the Kingdom of Denmark), and Kosovo ( state with limited recognition), however, in the context of these countries, government functions concerning sport tend to be carried at the territorial level coterminous with the UEFA member entity. Some UEFA members are not sovereign states, but form part of a larger recognised sovereign state in the context of international law. One UN member state (Monaco) and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state (Vatican City) are not members. UEFA membership coincides for the most part with recognition as a sovereign country in Europe (48 out of 55 members are sovereign UN member states), although there are some exceptions. They moved to Nyon, Switzerland, in 1995, where they operated out of temporary offices until 1999 while the organisation's current headquarters were under construction. UEFA's main headquarters after its foundation were located in Paris, but moved to Bern in 1960. UEFA grew to more than 50 members by the mid-1990s, as new associations were born out of the fragmentation of the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia into their constituent states. However, 6 other associations which were not present were still recognised as founding members, bringing the total of founding associations to 31. At the founding meeting, 25 members were present. UEFA was inaugurated on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations. The current president is Aleksander Čeferin, a former Football Association of Slovenia president, who was elected as UEFA's seventh president at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens in September 2016, and automatically became a vice-president of the world body FIFA. Henri Delaunay acted as the first general secretary and Ebbe Schwartz as the first president. UEFA consists of the national football associations of Europe, and runs national and club competitions including the UEFA European Championship, UEFA Nations League, UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europa League, UEFA Europa Conference League, and UEFA Super Cup, and also controls the prize money, regulations, as well as media rights to those competitions. Because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, FIFA and UEFA suspended all Russian national teams and clubs from any FIFA and UEFA competitions. UEFA consists of 55 national association members. It governs football, futsal and beach football in Europe and the transcontinental countries of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Russia and Kazakhstan, as well as some Asian countries such as Israel, Cyprus and Armenia. Union of European Football Associations ( UEFA / j uː ˈ eɪ f ə/ yoo- AY-fə French: Union des associations européennes de football German: Union der europäischen Fußballverbände) is one of six continental bodies of governance in association football.
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