The FIFA World Cup is an international association football competition contested by the men’s national teams of the members of Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), the sport’s global governing body. It is the most widely viewed sporting event in the world; an estimated 715.1 million people watched the final match of the 2006 World [...]

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, commonly know as FIFA, is an association governed by Swiss law, which was founded in 1904 and is headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. It has 208 member associations and its goal, enshrined in its statutes, is the continued improvement of football. MISSION Develop the Game, Touch the World, Build a [...]

The 2014 FIFA World Cup will be held in Brazil. This will be the second time the country has hosted the competition, the first being the 1950 FIFA World Cup. Brazil will become the fifth country to have hosted the FIFA World Cup twice, after Mexico, Italy, France and Germany. It will be the first [...]

The U.S. Soccer Federation, governing body of soccer in all its forms in the United States, has helped chart the course for the sport in the USA for more than 90 years. In this time, the Federation’s mission statement has been very simple and very clear: to make soccer, in all its forms, a preeminent [...]

Federación Mexicana de Fútbol Asociación or FEMEXFUT (Mexican Football Federation) is the governing body of football in Mexico. It administers the Mexican national team, the Mexican league, and all affiliated amateur sectors. Its headquarters are located in Mexico City. The league is composed of four professional divisions: Primera División, Liga de Ascenso, Segunda División, and [...]

The CONCACAF Champions League is the annual international club football championship for teams from the CONCACAF region (North America, Central America, and the Caribbean). The competition is open to the leading teams in the region, and replaced the CONCACAF Champions Cup, which has run from 1962 to 2008. The winner earns a berth in the [...]

The UEFA Champions League (usually referred to as simply the Champions League or historically as the European Cup) is an annual Association football cup competition organized by UEFA since 1955 for the top football clubs in Europe. The final of the competition is – along with the NFL’s Super Bowl – the most watched annual [...]

GOL TV is the first television network dedicated fully to association football (soccer) in the United States. It is based in North Bay Village, Florida and is owned by GOLTV Inc. The network broadcasts selected football matches of the Spanish League, German Bundesliga, Coppa Italia, the Copa América, and many leagues from South America and [...]

Fox Soccer Channel (FSC) is an American television speciality channel, owned by News Corporation’s Fox Entertainment Group, that specializes in soccer. They provide soccer programming for the English Premier League and Italy’s Serie A as well as much more.