Indoor soccer in Colombia

 Indoor soccer, played according to the official indoor soccer rules of the World
Futsal Association (AMF), is the second national sport of Colombia. It has
reached great maturity in terms of organization, popularity, game systems and
sports figures. It is the collective discipline that has achieved the greatest
international successes and the one that

 more is practiced
Colombia is the only country that, to date, has won all the competitions organized
by the AMF (formerly the International Indoor Football Federation, FIFUSA),
Panafutsal and CSFS in the senior men's category. At youth level, he won the title
of the first U-17 World Championship in 2016.2 His only pending subject in the
men's branch is the U-20 World Cup, in which he obtained third place in the first
edition in 2016. The women's team has won the world title once (2013) and is the
current South American champion.
These achievements, combined with the long history of this sport in the country,
have made Colombia a world power in this discipline. The excellent results are due
to the outstanding management of the Colombian Indoor Soccer Federation
(Fecolfutsalón) since, since 2009https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009, the country has
had its own professional competitions for
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%C3%BAtbol_Femenina_(Colombia) (two of the most competitive on the
continent).

Organization
The Colombian Indoor Football Federation (Fecolfutsalón) is the entity that governs
and promotes indoor football in Colombia. It was founded on November 8, 1974. It
is recognized by the Colombian Olympic Committee. It also has the official
endorsement of Coldeportes through Resolution 01619 of September 3, 1976.
After its founding, it joined the South American Futsal Confederation. It is also a
founding member of the Pan American Futsal Confederation and the World Futsal
Association. Later, it joined CONCACFUTSAL,https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_de_sal
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4 an entity that promotes sport in North, Central America
and the Caribbean.
The federation is in charge of the Colombian national team in both the men's and
women's categories. It is also responsible, through the National Indoor Soccer
Division, for organizing professional tournaments in the discipline for men and
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Copa_Profesional_de_Microf%C3%BAtbol_(Colombia).

History of indoor soccer in Colombia[edit]

Indoor soccer was developed in Colombia thanks to Mr. Jaime Arroyave
(nicknamed "El Pantalonudo") after a trip he made to Brazil in the 60s, observing
from the air some small soccer fields, which caught his attention and awakened his
curiosity about this sport discipline. Arroyave took on the development of futsal in
Colombia, dedicating himself to extending it since 1966, when he introduced it to
the country, and later founding the Colombian Indoor Soccer Federation in 1974,
which he presided over from its creation until the last year of the 20th century.
In 1967, the Social Security Institute in the city of Bogotá gave futsal its final boost
by organizing an event with the participation of 597 teams, an unimaginable record
for the time, which also marked the subsequent beginning of the Inter-
Neighborhood Championship in Bogotá, sponsored by the newspaper El Tiempo
and Pony Malta, and which served to create the first league in Colombia on August
20, 1973: the Bogotá League.
Around 1983, the first regulation was published in Spanish, based on some work
already prepared and the translation made from Portuguese by engineer Albano
Ariza.
In its early days, the sport was rejected by sectors linked to field football, where
indoor football was labelled as "anti-football". However, it has the recognition of
Colombian sports bodies, appearing in the National Games, and is the most widely
practiced sport in the country, since it can be practiced anywhere and on any
terrain.

Tournaments[edit]
Domestic competitions[edit]
At the end of the 1980s, the national 1000 Cities tournament was launched, which
brought the sport to the entire country and was held at an amateur level. It has
remained active until today.
In 1993, the first semi-professional indoor soccer tournament was held in Bogotá:
the Doria/Promasa Cup, which pitted the best-structured teams in the country's
capital against each other.
At the end of the 20th century, an attempt was made at professionalization in the
department of Santander, where a 6-team tournament was held sponsored by the
regional newspaper Vanguardia Liberal, of which only 4 editions could be held
(from 1996 to 1999). The tournament's attraction was the registration of one
Colombian national team player per team (in those years, the base of the national
team was from that region).
In 2009, the federation achieved definitive professionalization with a successful
national men's tournament, led by former coach and current leader Manuel
Sánchez Aguirre, current president of the federation. The following year, it
expanded to the women's
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International championships organized by Colombia[edit]
Fecolfutsalon has organized several international events. At the national team
level, it hosted the Pan American Championships in 1990 and 1996. In 2011, it
organized the 2011 Microfootball World Cup. In 2013,
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013it hosted the Futsal Tournament of the 2013
World Games,https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_de_sal%C3%B3n_en_Colombia - cite_note-75 where the
discipline was incorporated as an exhibition sport. In November of that year,
Colombia also hosted the second Women's Microfootball World
Cup.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_de_sal%C3%B3n_en_Colombia - cite_note-86 In 2014, it organized the
South American Men's Championship and the following year, its equivalent in the
women's branch, repeating the organization in 2017.
At club level, since 2014, the continental tournament called Copa de las Américas
has been organized in Colombia, where the best from the North Zone and the
South Zone of South America compete. The country hosted the qualifying round for
the Northern Zone for two years. In 2016 and 2017, the tournament was not played
in the Northern Zone; the places to play in the Copa de las Américas were taken by
the Champion and Runner-up of the Colombian professional tournament.

National team[edit]
Main article: Colombia national futsal team
Colombia had its first significant international participation in the 1977 South
Americanhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Campeonato_Sudamericano_de_futsal Championship, where it finished third. At
that time it was directed by Luis Augusto García.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_de_sal
%C3%B3n_en_Colombia - cite_note-9
7 In 1982, it participated in the I FIFUSA World Cup in Brazil,
under the technical direction of Gonzalo Gusmán.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_de_sal
%C3%B3n_en_Colombia - cite_note-Placar11jun82-10
8 In this tournament, the Colombian team reached
the semifinals by beating Japan 5-0 and Holland 5-2, and then fell in the dispute for
third place with Uruguay.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_de_sal%C3%B3n_en_Colombia - cite_note-119
The Colombian team again achieved fourth place in the
1984https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984 Pan American Games in Brazil.10 It did not
participate in the 1985 World Cup in Spain and the 1988 World Cup in Australia.
In the 1990s, Colombia won its first continental titles. In 1990, they won the III Pan
American Championship held in Santa Fe de Bogotá undefeated, defeating
Paraguay, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selecci%C3%B3n_masculina_de_f
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andhttps://es.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Selecci%C3%B3n_de_f
%C3%BAtbol_de_sal%C3%B3n_de_Bolivia&action=edit&redlink=1 Bolivia in the
final round, with Jaime Azza as the tournament's top scorer and led by Diego
Morales (promoter of FIFA indoor football in Colombia). The player base of this
contest allowed them to revalidate the title https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993in 1993
against Bolivia in La Paz.11 The following year, the Colombian team was runner-up
in the World Cup in Argentina 1994, losing the final to the local
team.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_de_sal%C3%B3n_en_Colombia - cite_note-1412 13https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F
%C3%BAtbol_de_sal%C3%B3n_en_Colombia - cite_note-15
In the 2000 World Cup in Bolivia, they won
their first world title by beating the host team on penalties, consecrating the then
youth Jhon Pinilla as top scorer.14 In this decade, their greatest reference was
Giovanny Hernández, considered until his retirement the best player in the world in
the specialty.
In the 2000s, despite not being able to repeat the triumphs achieved in the
previous decade (partly due to the crisis experienced in the sport due to the conflict
that it still has with FIFA over the rights to the sport, which led to the disappearance
of FIFUSA and the creation of the AMF), it managed to finish second in the 2003
Paraguay World Cup and third in Argentina 2007.
In 2011, Colombia won the title for the second time, at the 10th World Indoor
Soccer Championship, beating Paraguay, the then defending champion, by 8-2.
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cite_note-18
Two years later, Colombia won another important title: the Exhibition
Tournament at the 2013 World Games. In 2014 he won his first South American
title.18 In https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/20152015 he won his third world title in Belarus
(the second in a row). In https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/20162016, Colombia, in its U-
17 youth edition, won its first youth title in the first edition of this, by winning a final
quadrangular.
The women's team, for its part, won the title of the II World Championship in 2013,
which it hosted, defeating the Venezuelan team in the final, whom they also
defeated to win the South American title in 2017.

Colombian Indoor Soccer Federation

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Indoor soccer, also known as micro-soccer or futsal (internationally), is different

from soccer in the very setting in which it is played, the ball used, the number of
players involved and other characteristics that irremediably separate them, despite
being played with the foot. A fact comparable to other modalities (such as sports
played with an instrument that hits a ball), which, for this simple reason, are not
grouped into a single discipline.

The appearance of this sport occurred in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay, when Juan
Carlos Ceriani, a member of the Young Men's Christian Association of that country,
created it, after discovering that it was possible to regulate a discipline that was
practiced on the streets in his country and in many parts of the world. From there it
spread to neighbouring countries, but especially to Sao Paulo in Brazil and the
border with Paraguay, places where it was perfected, regulatory, technical and
tactically, and where many outstanding figures emerged who made it experience
great success, until in February 1954, the first League was created in Brazil.

Its name, in essence, derives from its practical application, the handling of the ball
with the foot, in English foot ball. It was created to be played with five people on a
hard and preferably covered floor. This is how the name given by its implementers
in our country was micro-football or indoor football, names to which today, due to
universalization, the name futsal has been added. The latter is the one that is
being implemented throughout the world with the AMF regulations.

CP ALUMNI ASSOCIATION BERNAT METGEWEB

OFFICIAL OF THE 21ST INDOOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE 2011-12 SEASON
A SHORT HISTORY OF FUTSAL

Indoor football is a sport in which two teams made up of four field players
and a goalkeeper compete against each other. The objective is to score
more goals than the opponent during a period of play that lasts two 20-
minute periods (time is separated when the ball is not in play).
You may know it as futsal, futsala, indoor football... (at a high level it has
a high tactical complexity due to its small spaces: the field measures 40
metres by 20).
If you want to know something about its history: Indoor soccer

was born in Uruguay in 1930. It was Professor Juan Carlos Ceriani who,
using rules from water polo, basketball, handball and football, wrote the
regulations for this sport.

The precedents of indoor football must be sought in Uruguay in the year

1930. At that time, football was a real craze on the streets of Montevideo.
It was the time when the Uruguayan national team had won the world
championship.
It was Professor Juan Carlos Ceriani who noticed that children were
playing football on basketball courts when there were no free football
fields and he tried to solve the problem. His great success was bringing
football to a small field intended for other sports.

"Indoor soccer is a different sport from football""Indoor

soccer", as it began to be called, caused a sensation in Uruguay, from
where it spread to Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Spain. It then spread
to the rest of the world.
Futsal is a sport that is different from conventional football, as it is a
combination of several sports, including football of course.

Not only rules but also playing techniques such as blocks (basketball) or
rotations (roller hockey) have been taken from other sports.
Indoor
Futsal is a sport football
for players with technical ability, who like to dominate the
ball.
The speed with which the ball is received, passed or the technical gesture
is performed must be as fast as possible in this sport.
In Spain we have good players. Our national team is, under the
leadership of Javier Lozano, World Champion and has been European
Champion.

Indoor football
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2007. football, futsal, futsala or
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Each indoor
Sports AMF (formerly Fifusa) and FOCA football team must be made up of 5
authority players in which there must be a
goalkeeper on each team, the
game consists of introducing the
Other names Indoor soccer, futsal, futsal ball into a goal protected by the
goalkeeper of the opposing team
who will try to prevent the ball from
Characteristics entering the goal. It was inspired by
other sports such as football, which
is the basis of the game; handball;
Contact Physical contact sport and others such as water polo; and
basketball; taking from these not
only some of the rules, but also
Members per 12 players: 5 on the field some game tactics.
team Although it was initially governed
and 7 substitutes
by the International Futsal
Federation (Fifusa), today there are
Gender Male, female and mixed or combined two global bodies: the direct
successor of the former, called the
Category Team sport
World Futsal Association (AMF),
Accessories In FIFA regulations, shin guards or shin and FIFA.
guards are mandatory. Unlike
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Ball Spherical %C3%BAtbolprofessional football
and just like in beach soccer, there
Meeting place Official rectangular court measuring 40 × 20 is no offside here.
m and for departmental or national events 38
× 18 m

Duration of the 40 min (2 parts of 20 min). If the timer is 50

meeting min (2 parts of 25 min)

Scoring format Goal, 1 point

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 Index

 1 History
 2 Rules
 3Positions
 4Technical and tactical fundamentals
 5Game period
 6 Most important championships
o 6.1 Men's senior national teams
o 6.2Clubs
o 6.3 Women's senior national teams
o 6.4Men's Youth Teams
o 6.5 Women's Youth Teams
 7 Most important national tournaments
o 7.1 Europe
o 7.2 South America
o 7.3Asia
o 7.4The Italian case
 8See also
 9References
 10External links

History[edit]
The creation of this sport dates back to https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/19301930 in Montevideo,
Uruguay. Led by Javier Lozano, this team had just won the first World Cup in their country and
two years ago, they had won https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anexo:F
%C3%BAtbol_en_los_Juegos_Ol%C3%ADmpicos_de_%C3%81msterdam_1928the gold
medal at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
It was a real frenzy, young people were excited to play football regardless of the size or type of
surface. There were few fields to practice it and they remained full, forcing children and young
people to play in the streets and on smaller fields. It was Professor Juan Carlos Ceriani, from
the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) of Montevideo, who brought his practice to
closed venues. He came up with the idea of adapting the rules of football, combining them with
rules from other sports such as handball, water polo and basketball, to a small, hard field.
From basketball it took the number of players, five per team, and the total playing time of 40
minutes; from handball the size of the goals, the low-bounce ball and the measurements of the
field; and from water polo the rules regarding the goalkeeper. Initially it was called "indoor
football" and caused a sensation in Uruguay, later passing to the rest
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudam%C3%A9ricaof South America, extending to all
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In 1965, the South American Indoor Soccer Confederation was created, the first international
organization for this sport. That year, the first South American national team championship was
also held.
The International Federation of Indoor Football (FIFUSA) was founded in
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/19711971 in São Paulo. This organization held the
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1982first World Cup of the sport inhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_sala -
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19824 and subsequently six more.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_sala - cite_note-55 FIFUSA remained an
independent organization until its dissolution in 2002.
At the end of 1985 and faced with the economic crisis of FIFUSA and its affiliates, partly due to
the pressure exerted by the parent entity of football (FIFA), several countries, led by Brazil,
decided to ask the then President of FIFA Joao Havelange, as well as its Secretary General
Joseph Blatter, that this organization incorporate futsal into the FIFA
organization.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_sala - cite_note-66
In 2000, internal problems and complaints against FIFUSA caused many of its member
federations and confederations to leave it. Later, the alternative of trying to unify them with
FIFA arose, but the agreement did not prosper. Finally, the confederations that did not reach
an agreement to unify the sport with FIFA decided to form the World Futsal Association (AMF)
in 2002, with headquarters in Asunción, Paraguay.
The new organisation continued the legacy left by FIFUSA, going on to hold its continental and
world tournaments; initially with difficulties due to the war it maintained (and still maintains) with
FIFA for control of the sport, including the use of the word "football" in it and the departure of
many AMF players and managers to FIFA, but which it has managed to overcome by forging
new sporting and managerial talents, in addition to establishing new continental and national
confederations in each country, achieving significant expansion. The AMF is even officially
recognized by the International World Games Association (IWGA), organizers of the World
Games, an entity supported by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), organizers of the
Olympic Games.

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Rules[edit]
1. The penalty area must be parallel to the end line at 3 metres and the lines joining it to
the end line must be curved.
2. The penalty spot must be 6 meters from each goal and the double penalty spot must
be 10 meters from each goal.
3. Goals must be 3 meters wide and 2 meters high.

Positions[edit]
There are different formations in futsal: 1-3 with one defender, two wingers and one forward /
2-2 also called square in which there are two defenders and two forwards / 4-0 with universal
players, most of the time with wingers and defenders. If there is an expulsion, the game can be
played with a 2-1 or a 1-2, depending on the formation of the attacker.

 Goalkeeper: is the player whose main objective is to prevent the ball from entering his goal
during the match. The goalkeeper can join the attack and act as another player. In his own
field he only has 4 seconds of possession of the ball and cannot be played with.

 Closing: A player who is positioned in front of the goalkeeper as the base of the three-
player attacking line and is the last field player on defense. This player is usually the one
who moves the game.
 Wing: They are located above the bands. They must go up and down without stopping and
always seek support from their teammates.

 Pivot: player from the team closest to the opposing goal, who performs offensive functions
(receiving and playing the ball behind the goal). This player must be constantly moving,
looking for any space to offer a pass to an unmarked player.

Technical and tactical fundamentals[edit]

Indoor soccer field.

1. Passing: is the action of delivering the ball to another person as accurately as possible.
They can be short, medium or long, depending on the distance. Depending on their
trajectory, they will be ascending, descending, parabolic or at ground level; and
depending on their direction, they will vary between lateral, delayed and diagonal.
2. Dribbling: This is an essential gesture for acquiring good technique, as it is the basis for
mastering passing, dribbling and shooting. It is necessary to control the surface of
contact with the ball, the softness of the touch, the pressure and the balance of the
entire body to achieve maximum effectiveness. It can be with the sole of the foot or
with the tip.
3. Dribbling: used to get past one or more opponents without losing control of the ball.
The dribble can be performed without a prior feint, with a sudden change of pace to
unbalance the defender and get around him without giving him time to react, or with a
prior feint, in which the player in possession of the ball performs the dribble based on
the defense's prior reaction. There are several types of dribbling, such as protection
dribbling (the action of placing the body between the ball and the opponent), cutting
(changing the ball from one leg to the other, feinting a pass or shot at goal), raking
(changing the direction of the ball with the sole of the foot), bicycle dribbling (passing
the feet alternately over the ball in motion or position), among others.
4. Shot on goal: refers to the action of hitting the ball with any of the permitted contact
surfaces, in the direction of the opposing goal and with the aim of scoring a goal.
It can be pulled in different ways:
Tip: used to pull with maximum power or to make Vaseline.
Inside: used to adjust the ball more to the place the player wants it to go, in this way
the shot will not go as fast as when shot from the tip.
Instep: performed with the front part of the foot.
Heel: used to surprise the goalkeeper. It should be thrown at close distances, because
if it is thrown from a long distance it is difficult to reach.
Head: This is generally performed when the ball approaches a height at which contact
with the foot or leg is not possible.
5. Reception: This is an action that is frequently used during a match, with the aim of
receiving the ball, controlling it and putting it at your service in order to develop a post-
game action in good conditions. The reception while stopped is one in which the ball is
fully controlled with the feet, losing the speed component but increasing the precision
 in the subsequent handling of the ball with the sole of the foot. A half-stopped
reception is one in which the inside of the foot helps the ball lose some of its initial
value. And the cushioning reception is used to control aerial balls with a downward
trajectory; it produces a cushioning of the acceleration with which the ball is reached
with the instep.

Period of play[edit]
A futsal match lasts 40 minutes and is divided into two halves of 20 minutes each, stopping the
clock every time the ball is not in play, plus any breaks of less than a minute that the coaches
wish to take (time-out).
In this sport, the time played is measured. For example, when the ball goes out or a foul is
committed, time stops (if it is a youth category or higher, on the contrary, the game will not
stop). Until the ball enters play, play will not continue. Unlike football, where lost time is
rewarded until the end of the match.
In knockout matches, if a match ends in a draw, 2 extra periods of 10 minutes each will be
played, making a total of 20 minutes played. If the score remains tied, a penalty shoot-out will
be used, which is similar to that in professional football except that 3 penalties are taken
instead of 5.
With an intermission period of 10 or 15 minutes. This is used as the half-time break in the
match, it is not counted on the stopwatch.

The organizing club must have at least two (2) balls ready for the match, which must be
presented to the referees in their locker room for control, and they will be responsible for them
until they are returned to the team at the end of the match.
It will be spherical.
It will be made of leather or other suitable material.
It will have a circumference between 62 and 64 centimeters.
It will weigh between 400 and 440 grams at the start of the match. It will have a pressure
equivalent to 0.4-0.6 atmospheres (400-600 g/cm2) at sea level.
Dropping it from a height of 2 (two) meters, it must not bounce less than 50 centimeters or
more than 65 centimeters on the first bounce.
For the pre-benjamin, benjamin and alevín categories, the ball must have a circumference of
58 cm. and 368 grs. weight. And size 54 cm for the lollipops (3 - 4 years).
In recent times, for the pre-benjamin, benjamin and alevín categories, balls are being created
that have the same size of 62-64 cm but their weight decreases from 400-440 grams to 350
grams and even 290 grams for the smallest players. This way, younger athletes have a ball
that is much easier to hit.

Most important championships[edit]

Because there are two governing bodies for football (https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMFAMF and
FIFAhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA), both organise parallel events under their own
regulations. These would be the main tournaments of each organization in each category.
(Tournaments in italics are discontinued or not running consistently)

Men's senior national teams[edit]

 FIFA AMF/FIFUSA
FIFA Futsal World Cup AMF World Championship
Confederations Cup of Futsal World Cup of National Teams
Futsal Eurocup No equivalent
Copa America Futsal South American
African Futsal Championship No equivalent
Asian Futsal Championship No equivalent
Concacaf Futsal Championship No equivalent
OFC Futsal Championship No equivalent

 At Olympic level
o Lusophony Games, FIFAhttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA rules
o Pan American Games, FIFA rules
o World Games, AMF ruleshttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMF
o Central American Games, FIFA rules
o Bolivarian Games, FIFA rules
o ODESUR games, FIFA rules
o It will be implemented as a test sport at the Buenos Aires 2018 Youth Olympic Games
by FIFA, replacing football.https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%C3%BAtbol_sala - cite_note-77
Clubs[edit]
FIFA FIFUSA/AMF
Intercontinental Futsal Cup World Club Championship
UEFA Futsal Cup FEF Champions Cup
European Cup Winners' Cup No equivalent
Pan American and/or South American
Libertadores Futsal Cup
Clubs
Asian Club Championship (AFC) No equivalent
CONCACAF Club Championship No equivalent
No equivalent FEF Women's Champions Cup

Women's senior national teams[edit]

FIFA FIFUSA/AMF
FIFA Women's World Cup AMF Women's World Cup
South American Women's Indoor
South American Women's Championship
Soccer Championship

Men's Youth Teams[edit]

FIFA FIFUSA/AMF
No equivalent U-20 World Cup
 South American Under- South American
20 Under 20
UEFA Futsal Under-21 No equivalent
No equivalent U-17 World Cup
South American Under-
No equivalent
17
No equivalent U-20 World Cup

Youth Women's Teams[edit]

FIFA FIFUSA/AMF
South American Women's
No equivalent
Under-20

Major national tournaments[edit]

Europe[edit]
These tournaments are played under FIFA regulationshttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA.

 Spanish National Futsal League

 Russian Futsal Super League
 Kazakh Futsal League
 Portuguese Futsal League
 Italian Futsal League
South America[edit]
Tournaments with FIFA ruleshttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA

 Brazilian Futsal League

 AFA Futsal Championship, (Argentina)
 Colombian Futsal League
 APF FIFA Futsal Championship (Paraguay)
 Venezuelan Futsal League
Tournaments with AMF ruleshttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMF

 Professional Microfootball Cup and Professional Women's Microfootball Cup, both

professional tournaments in Colombia
 Republic Cup of Indoor Soccer, Paraguay tournament
Asia[edit]
Tournaments with FIFA ruleshttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIFA

 F. Japan Leaguehttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jap%C3%B3n
 Iranian Futsal Super League (Iran)
 Thailand Futsal League (Thailand)
The Italian case[edit]
In 1987, a group of Milanese shareholders led by Giovanni Conticcini founded AIFS. (Italian
Futsal Association), which after recognition by the European Popular Movement in 1988,
changed its name by notarial act to the Italian Futsal Federation (FIFS) at the request of the
new president Giovanni Caminiti. In the same year, FIFS became recognised by FIFUSA (the
international futsal organisation, acronym for the Portuguese Federação Internacional de
Fútbol Salão) and is one of the founding federations of the
UEFShttps://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFS (European Futsal Union) federation.
In 1991, it organised the AMF Futsal World Championship in Milan
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992and in 1992 it took part in the European Championship
organised in Porto (Portugal) by the old Spanish UEFS. In
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/19941994, the team took part for the last time in a World Cup
organised by FIFUSA, obtaining a disappointing result: it qualified in last place.
As regards club competitions, the FIFS entered the teams that won the national league from
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/19881988 to 1998https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/1998 into the
Champions Cup for Clubs: in the 1991 edition, AS Milano was ranked seventh in 1992 and GS
in 1993 Danypel Millano reached the same classification, while in 1995 Sporting Turro finished
the tournament in eighth position.
At the end of the 1990s, due to serious health problems of President Caminiti, the Federation
stopped its competitive activity and remained dormant until the summer of
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/20092009 when, with the arrival of Axel Paderni, it resumed its
sporting activity.
In 2009, the club joined the World Futsal League Association, founded in Switzerland with the
aim of safeguarding and promoting futsal throughout the world, striving to have it practiced by
a greater number of athletes. 15 countries took part: Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Egypt, El
Salvador, France, Germany, Italy, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Monaco, Principality of Seborga,
Switzerland, Tunisia. But the history of this association lasted only three years: in September
2012https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septiembre, after the
European Mediterranean Cup in Imperia (Italy), its dissolution was decreed.