UEFA

UEFA was officially inaugurated on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland, after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations.{{Cite news |date=18 May 2020 |title=60 years at the heart of football |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/EuroExperience/uefaorg/General/02/22/46/45/2224645_DOWNLOAD.pdf|access-date=18 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207025905/https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/EuroExperience/uefaorg/General/02/22/46/45/2224645_DOWNLOAD.pdf|archive-date=7 February 2019|url-status=live}} At the founding meeting, 25 members were present. However, six other associations which were not present were still recognised as founding members, bringing the total of founding associations to 31.{{cite web |last=Vieli |first=André |location=Nyon |url=https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/EuroExperience/uefaorg/General/02/22/46/45/2224645_DOWNLOAD.pdf |title=UEFA: 60 years at the heart of football |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |page=169 |year=2014 |access-date=13 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207025905/https://www.uefa.com/MultimediaFiles/Download/EuroExperience/uefaorg/General/02/22/46/45/2224645_DOWNLOAD.pdf |archive-date=7 February 2019 |url-status=live}} 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. UEFA's main headquarters after its foundation were located in Paris, but moved to Bern in 1960. Finally, they moved to Nyon, Switzerland, in 1995, opening the organisation's current headquarters in 1999.{{cite news |title=UEFA marks ten years at headquarters |url=https://www.uefa.com/news/01de-0f8601b48d72-c2b80e6cab2d-1000--uefa-marks-ten-years-at-headquarters/ |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=2 October 2009 |accessdate=31 August 2021}}

;Current 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. One UN member state (Monaco) and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state (Vatican City) are not members. Some UEFA members are not sovereign states, but form part of a larger recognised sovereign state in the context of international law. These include England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales (UK constituent countries), Gibraltar (UK overseas territory), Faroe Islands (Danish Realm), 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. UEFA have previously declined membership to those deemed as non-sovereign countries like Jersey.{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-soccer-uefa-jersey-idUKKCN1GA1B9 |first1= Brian |last1=Homewood |title=Jersey fails in bid to join UEFA |newspaper=Reuters |date=26 February 2018}}

Some UEFA members are transcontinental states (Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan and Turkey) and others are considered part of Europe both culturally and politically (Turkey, Cyprus and Armenia). 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. Involving clubs, some UEFA member associations allow teams from outside their association's main territory to take part in their "domestic" competition, for example, AS Monaco in the French League, Welsh clubs Cardiff City or Swansea City in the English League, or Derry City, situated in Northern Ireland, plays in the Republic of Ireland-based League of Ireland.{{Cite news |url=https://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2019/0206/1027990-derry-city-fc-and-brexit/ |title=Derry City and Brexit: hard border politics, soft border football |work=RTE |first1=Conor |last1=Murray |date=7 February 2019}}{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/feb/14/derry-city-brexit-league-of-ireland-northern-ireland-club |first1=Ewan |last1=Murray |title='We just want to watch football': Derry City caught in Brexit chaos |work=The Guardian |date=14 February 2019}}

On 28 February 2022, due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine and in accordance with a recommendation by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the UEFA suspended the participation of Russia.{{Cite news |title=Ukraine crisis: Fifa and Uefa suspend all Russian clubs and national teams |first1=Dan |last1=Roan |first2=Simon |last2=Stone |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/60560567 |access-date=28 February 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228144323/https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/60560567 |archive-date= 28 February 2022 }}{{cite press release |url=https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/fifa-uefa-suspend-russian-clubs-and-national-teams-from-all-competitions |title=FIFA/UEFA suspend Russian clubs and national teams from all competitions |work=FIFA |date=28 February 2022 |access-date=28 February 2022 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220228173247/https://www.fifa.com/tournaments/mens/worldcup/qatar2022/media-releases/fifa-uefa-suspend-russian-clubs-and-national-teams-from-all-competitions |archive-date= 28 February 2022 }} The Russian Football Union unsuccessfully appealed the UEFA ban to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, which upheld the ban.{{Cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/russia-rus/story/4619546/cas-reject-russias-appeal-over-world-cup-ban-after-ukraine-invasion |title=Russia World Cup ban appeal rejected by CAS |date=18 March 2022 |website=ESPN.com}}{{cite web |url=https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/8709_reasoned_OPM__publication_.pdf |title=CAS 2022/A/8709 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415162803/https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/8709_reasoned_OPM__publication_.pdf |archive-date=15 April 2022 |url-status=live}} On 26 September 2023 the ban was lifted for the Russia U-17 team enabling them to complete in the 2024 Euro U-17 with UEFA saying "by banning children from our competitions, we not only fail to recognise and uphold a fundamental right for their holistic development but we directly discriminate against them". The lifting of the ban also applied to all teams, men and women, of underage players.{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/sep/26/uefa-ends-blanket-ban-on-russian-teams-by-allowing-under-17-teams-football-compete |title=Uefa ends blanket ban on Russian teams by allowing under-17 sides to compete |newspaper=The Guardian |date=26 September 2023 |last1=Ames |first1=Nick}} This was rejected by the FA of Ukraine, England, and Sweden, with all three threatening to boycott matches against Russia.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/66954582.amp |title=Ukraine FA asks European teams not to play Russia U17s |date=28 September 2023 |work=BBC Sport}}

;Europe's Big Five

Five of the UEFA national teams, Germany, Italy, France, England and Spain, have won 12 out of 22 FIFA World Cups for Europe. These five nations also make up the so-called «Europe's Big Five», consisting of Spain's La Liga, England's Premier League, Germany's Bundesliga, Italy's Serie A and France's Ligue 1.{{cite web |url=https://www.sportspromedia.com/insights/analysis/premier-league-laliga-bundesliga-serie-a-ligue-1-big-five-domestic-tv-rights-deals/ |title=TV rights picture in Europe's 'big five' soccer leagues |work=sportspromedia |date=17 November 2023}}

UEFA executive committee is composed of;{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/about/how-we-work/executive-committee/ |title=UEFA Executive Committee |publisher=UEFA |access-date=30 January 2024}}

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President

• {{flagicon|SVN}} Aleksander Čeferin

Vice-presidents

• {{flagicon|SWE}} Karl-Erik Nilsson – First Vice-president{{cite news |url=http://www.uefa.org/about-uefa/executive-committee/index.html |title=UEFA Executive Committee |publisher=UEFA |access-date=14 September 2016 |archive-date=7 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107081844/https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/about-uefa/executive-committee/index.html?redirectFromOrg=true |url-status=dead}}
• {{flagicon|ALB}} Armand Duka
• {{flagicon|GER}} Hans-Joachim Watzke
• {{flagicon|DEN}} Jesper Møller
• {{flagicon|ITA}} Gabriele Gravina
• {{flagicon|WAL}} Laura McAllister{{Cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/64663616 |title=Ex-Wales captain McAllister lands Uefa role |work=BBC Sport}}

Members

• {{flagicon|CZE}} Petr Fousek
• {{flagicon|FRA}} Philippe Diallo
• {{flagicon|GEO}} Levan Kobiashvili
• {{flagicon|GER}} Karl-Heinz Rummenigge
• {{flagicon|NOR}} Lise Klaveness
• {{flagicon|CRO}} Marijan Kustić
• {{flagicon|FIN}} Ari Lahti
• {{flagicon|ESP}} Rafael Louzán Abal
• {{flagicon|ARM}} Armen Melikbekyan
• {{flagicon|NED}} Frank Paauw
• {{flagicon|ISR}} Moshe Zuares
• {{flagicon|EST}} Aivar Pohlak
• {{flagicon|SUI}} Claudius Schäfer
• {{flagicon|ESP}} Miguel Ángel Gil Marín
• {{flagicon|QAT}} Nasser Al-Khelaifi

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General secretary

• {{flagicon|GRE}} Theodore Theodoridis

Deputy general secretary

• {{flagicon|ITA}} Giorgio Marchetti

Treasurer

• {{flagicon|HUN}} Sándor Csányi{{cite web |url=https://www.fifa.com/associations/uefa/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307054239/https://www.fifa.com/associations/uefa/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=7 March 2019 |title=Football Confederations – UEFA |website=FIFA.com}}

Head of club competitions and calendar

• {{flagicon|GER}} Tobias Hedtstück

Head of national competitions

• {{flagicon|ENG}} Lance Kelly

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{{Main|UEFA competitions}}

{{See also|List of association football competitions|FIFA International Match Calendar}}

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National teams:

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• UEFA European Championship
• UEFA Nations League
• UEFA European Under-21 Championship
• UEFA European Under-19 Championship
• UEFA European Under-17 Championship
• UEFA Futsal Championship
• UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship

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• UEFA Women's Championship
• UEFA Women's Nations League
• UEFA Women's Under-19 Championship
• UEFA Women's Under-17 Championship
• UEFA Women's Futsal Championship

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Clubs:

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• UEFA Champions League
• UEFA Europa League
• UEFA Conference League
• UEFA Super Cup
• UEFA Youth League
• UEFA Futsal Champions League

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• UEFA Women's Champions League
• UEFA Women's Europa Cup

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Amateur:

• UEFA Regions' Cup

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Defunct

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• UEFA Under-21 Futsal Tournament

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Clubs:

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• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
• UEFA Intertoto Cup

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Amateur:

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• UEFA Amateur Cup

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UEFA runs official international competitions in Europe and some countries of Northern, Southwestern and Central Asia for national teams and professional clubs, known as UEFA competitions, some of which are regarded as the world's most prestigious tournaments.

UEFA is the organiser of two of the most prestigious competitions in international football: The UEFA European Championship and the UEFA Nations League. The main competition for men's national teams is the UEFA European Championship (also known as the Euro), which started in 1958, with the first finals in 1960, and was known as the European Nations Cup until 1964. The UEFA Nations League is the second tournament of UEFA and was introduced in 2018. The tournament largely replaced the international friendly matches previously played on the FIFA International Match Calendar. It will be played every two years.

UEFA also runs national competitions at Under-21, Under-19 and Under-17 levels. For women's national teams, UEFA operates the UEFA Women's Championship for senior national sides as well as Women's Under-19 and Women's Under-17 Championships.

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Intercontinental national teams:

• CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions
• Women's Finalissima
• Futsal Finalissima

Defunct

• UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup

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Intercontinental clubs:

• UEFA–CONMEBOL Club Challenge
• Under-20 Intercontinental Cup

Defunct

• Intercontinental Champions' Supercup
• Intercontinental Cup

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Beside continental European competitions for national and their junior teams, the UEFA organizes various qualification male and female tournaments among European national and their junior teams for World Cups (organized by FIFA) and Olympics (organized by IOC).

UEFA also organised the UEFA–CAF Meridian Cup with CAF for youth teams in an effort to boost youth football. UEFA launched the UEFA Regions' Cup, for semi-professional teams representing their local region, in 1999. In futsal there is the UEFA Futsal Championship and UEFA Under-19 Futsal Championship. Despite the existence of UEFA's Futsal and Beach soccer committee, UEFA does not organise any beach soccer competitions. International and club beach soccer competitions for UEFA members are organised externally by Beach Soccer Worldwide.

The Italian, German, Spanish, French and Russian{{efn|Including results of the Soviet Union.}} men's national teams are the only teams to have won the European football championship in all categories.

{{Further|List of UEFA club competition winners}}

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The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in 1955 as the European Champion Clubs' Cup (or simply the European Cup) and initially only gathered the top team of each country; this competition has since been expanded to gather the top 1–4 teams of each country's league (the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded).

A second, lower-ranked competition is the UEFA Europa League. This competition, for national knockout cup winners and high-placed league teams, was launched by UEFA in 1971 as a successor of both the former UEFA Cup and the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup (also began in 1955). A third competition, the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, which started in 1960, was absorbed into the UEFA Cup (now UEFA Europa League) in 1999.

In December 2018, UEFA announced the creation of a third club competition, later named the UEFA Europa Conference League. The competition features 32 teams in 8 groups of 4, with a knockout round between the second placed teams in Europa Conference League and the third placed teams in the Europa League, leading to a final 16 knockout stage featuring the eight group winners. The first edition of the competition was played in 2021–2022.{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/46421656 |title=Europa League 2 to begin in 2021 |work=BBC Sport}}

In women's football UEFA also conducts the UEFA Women's Champions League for club teams. The competition was first held in 2001, and was known as the UEFA Women's Cup until 2009.

The UEFA Super Cup pits the winners of the Champions League against the winners of the Europa League (previously the winners of the Cup Winners' Cup), and came into being in 1973.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/history/ |title=History of the UEFA Super Cup |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=21 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100701063110/http://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/history/index.html |archive-date=1 July 2010 |url-status=live}}{{cite web |title=1973: Ajax enjoy early success |url=https://www.uefa.com/uefasupercup/history/1973/ |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=March 1974|access-date=5 January 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season=1971/intro.html |title=uefa.com – UEFA Cup Winners' Cup |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100503062850/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/ecwc/history/season%3D1971/intro.html |archive-date=3 May 2010}}

The UEFA Intertoto Cup was a summer competition, previously operated by several Central European football associations, which was relaunched and recognised as official UEFA club competition by UEFA in 1995.{{cite web |url=http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/intertotocup/history/index.html |title=History of the UEFA Intertoto Cup |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=14 August 2009 | url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208220406/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/intertotocup/history/index.html |archive-date=8 December 2013}} The last Intertoto Cup took place in 2008.

The European/South American Cup was jointly organised with CONMEBOL between the Champions League and the Copa Libertadores winners.{{cite web |url=http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/eusa/history/index.html |title=History of the UEFA/CONMEBOL Intercontinental Cup |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=14 August 2009 | url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208213557/http://en.archive.uefa.com/competitions/eusa/history/index.html |archive-date=8 December 2013}}

Only five teams{{cite web |language=es |url=http://hemeroteca.elmundodeportivo.es/preview/2003/09/23/pagina-7/552332/pdf.html |title=Un dilema histórico |work=El Mundo Deportivo's Historical Archive |access-date=23 September 2003 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100326071942/http://hemeroteca.elmundodeportivo.es/preview/2003/09/23/pagina-7/552332/pdf.html |archive-date= 26 March 2010}}{{Cite web |url=http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1987/03/20/pagina-34/1264069/pdf.html?search=ganadores+de+las+tres+competiciones+europeas |title=Edición del $dateTool.format('EEEE d MMMM yyyy', $document.date), Página $document.page – Hemeroteca – MundoDeportivo.com |website=hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com |access-date=19 March 2022 |archive-date=30 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630224218/http://hemeroteca.mundodeportivo.com/preview/1987/03/20/pagina-34/1264069/pdf.html?search=ganadores%20de%20las%20tres%20competiciones%20europeas |url-status=dead }} (Juventus, Ajax, Manchester United, Bayern Munich and Chelsea{{efn|Chelsea qualified for Europa League's Round of 32 after finishing in third place in the group stage of the 2012–13 Champions League.}}) have won each of the three main competitions (European Cup/UEFA Champions League, European Cup Winners' Cup/UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup/UEFA Europa League),{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=219635.html#the+with+golden+touch |title=The man with the golden touch |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=27 August 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430120135/http://www.uefa.com/news/newsid=219635.html |archive-date=30 April 2011 |url-status=dead}} a feat that is no longer possible for any team that did not win the Cup Winners' Cup. There are currently eight teams throughout Europe that have won two of the three trophies; all but one have won the Cup Winners' Cup, four require a win in the Champions League and four require a UEFA Europa League win.

Until the first staging of the UEFA Europa Conference League in 2022, Juventus of Italy was the only team in Europe to win all UEFA's official championships and cups{{cite web |url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/supercup/news/kind=32/newsid=447085.html |title=List of European official clubs' cups and tournaments |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations |access-date=21 August 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071230020854/http://www.uefa.com/competitions/supercup/news/kind=32/newsid=447085.html |archive-date=30 December 2007 |url-status=dead}} and, in commemoration of achieving that feat, have received The UEFA Plaque by the Union of European Football Associations on 12 July 1988.{{cite news |language=es |url=http://hemeroteca.lavanguardia.es/preview/1988/07/13/pagina-53/33040569/pdf.html |title=Sorteo de las competiciones europeas de fútbol: el Fram de Reykjavic, primer adversario del F.C. Barcelona en la Recopa |newspaper=La Vanguardia |format=PDF |page=53 |date=13 July 1988 |access-date=15 November 2009}}{{cite web |url=http://archiviostorico.gazzetta.it/1997/maggio/24/Tutto_inizio_con_poesia_ga_0_9705246555.shtml |title=Tutto inizio' con un po' di poesia |work=gazzetta.it}}

UEFA's premier futsal competition is the UEFA Futsal Cup, a tournament started in 2001 which replaced the former Futsal European Clubs Championship. This event, despite enjoying a long and well-established tradition in the European futsal community, dating back to 1984, was never recognised as official by UEFA.

There was an attempt to create a Europa League-style second tier women's club competition, which had been in discussion since 2021.{{cite news |url=https://www.skysports.com/football/news/28508/12259857/europa-league-style-competition-for-womens-football-among-proposals-from-european-club-association |title=Europa League-style competition for women's football among proposals from European Club Association |date=29 March 2021 |work=Sky Sports |access-date=29 September 2022 }} In December 2023, the attempt came into a fruition, with the first edition of the competition to be played in 2025–26.{{cite news |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0288-199d52e851a2-5aae94448728-1000--new-uefa-women-s-club-system-explained/ |title=New UEFA Women's club football system explained |website=UEFA.com |publisher=Union of European Football Associations |date=4 December 2023 |access-date=4 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204173817/https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/0288-199d52e851a2-5aae94448728-1000--new-uefa-women-s-club-system-explained/ |archive-date=4 December 2023 |url-status=live }} In December 2024, the name of the competition, "UEFA Women's Europa Cup", was announced.{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0294-1c956e9c4351-308eb953ce0c-1000/ |title=Record Women's EURO 2025 prize money approved |publisher=UEFA |date=16 December 2024 |access-date=16 December 2024}}{{cite web |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0294-1c95889ab17d-de7a668e4209-1000/ |title=Women's football to enter new era with UEFA Women's Europa Cup |publisher=UEFA |date=16 December 2024 |access-date=16 December 2024}}

{{See also|Portal:Current events/Sports|{{CURRENTYEAR}} in association football|{{CURRENTYEAR}} in sports|FIFA International Match Calendar}}

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• Adidas
• Alipay
• Atos
• Hisense
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• Bet365
• Crypto.com
• FedEx
• Heineken
• Just Eat Takeaway.com
• Mastercard
• PlayStation
• PepsiCo (Pepsi/Lay's)
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;UEFA Europa League

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• Betano
• Engelbert Strauss
• Enterprise Rent-A-Car{{cite web |title=Enterprise Rent-A-Car renews UEL partnership |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/0242-0f8e5db31322-0ba4460e83df-1000--enterprise-rent-a-car-renews-uefa-europa-league-partnership/ |date=23 February 2018 |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations}}
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• Hankook{{cite web |title=Hankook renews longstanding UEL and UECL partnership |url=https://www.uefa.com/news-media/news/026c-13193f496cff-ec3e691b7999-1000--hankook-tire-renews-longstanding-uefa-europa-and-conference-lea/ |date=27 August 2021 |website=UEFA.com|publisher=Union of European Football Associations}}
• Lidl
• Just Eat Takeaway.com
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• EA Sports
• Euronics
• Grifols
• Heineken
• Hublot
• Just Eat Takeaway.com
• Frito-Lay (Lay's)
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• Visa Inc.

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Legend

• {{bg|gold| 1st }} – Champions
• {{bg|silver| 2nd }} – Runners-up
• {{bg|#CFAA88| 3rd }} – Third place{{efn|name="1930 World Cup"|There was no third place match in 1930; The United States and Yugoslavia lost in the semi-finals. FIFA recognizes the United States as the third-placed team and Yugoslavia as the fourth-placed team using the overall records of the teams in the 1930 FIFA World Cup.}}
• {{bg|#9acdff| 4th }} – Fourth place
• QF – Quarter-finals (1934–1938, 1954–1970, and 1986–present: knockout round of 8)
• R3 – Round 3 (2026–present: knockout round of 16)
• R2 – Round 2 (1974–1978: second group stage, top 8; 1982: second group stage, top 12; 1986–2022: knockout round of 16; 2026–present: knockout round of 32)
• R1 – Round 1 (1930, 1950–1970 and 1986–present: group stage; 1934–1938: knockout round of 16; 1974–1982: first group stage)
• Q — Qualified for upcoming tournament
• {{border|width=1px|color=gray| •• }} – Qualified but withdrew
• {{border|width=1px|color=gray| • }} – Did not qualify
• {{border|width=1px|color=gray| × }} – Did not enter / Withdrew / Banned
• {{border|width=3px|color=red|   }} – Hosts

For each tournament, the flag of the host country and the number of teams in each finals tournament (in brackets) are shown.

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{{See also|Football at the Summer Olympics#Participating nations}}

{{See also|Football at the Summer Olympics#Participating nations 2}}

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{{See also|UEFA Women's Championship#Participation details}}

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