The Union of European Football Associations (French: Union des Associations Européennes de Football) is the administrative and controlling body for European football and futsal. It is almost always referred to by its acronym UEFA.

 

UEFA represents the national football associations of Europe, runs Europewide national and club competitions, and controls the prize money, regulations and media rights to those competitions. Several national football associations which are, at least partly, geographically in Asia belong to UEFA rather than the Asian Football Confederation (AFC).

 

These nations are Armenia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Cyprus and Turkey (Israel and Kazakhstan are former AFC members). Cyprus chose to be classed as a European football nation – it had the choice of Europe, Asia or Africa.