Which are the international or national level. global governing bodies for their The statutes, practice and activities respective sports and disciplines; of the IFs are required to be in and conformity with the Olympic National Olympic Committees Charter, including the adoption and implementation of the World (NOCs): Which are principal national level sports Code. organisations vested with the exclusive authority for the NOCs representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games as well as any regional, continental or world National sports organisations multi-sports competitions applying for NOC recognition are patronised by the IOC and for required to file an application with sending the country’s athletes to the IOC demonstrating that the such competitions. applicants fulfil all conditions prescribed by the Olympic Charter. The application for recognition is to be accompanied by proof that the national sports federations, which are the members of each prospective NOC exercise a specific and real on-going sports activity in their country and internationally, in particular by organising and participating in competitions and implementing training programmes for athletes, in their respective sports and disciplines. The approval of an applicant’s statutes by the IOC Executive Board is a condition for recognition. The same condition applies to any subsequent change or amendment to the statutes of an NOC. FIFA’s single-tiered membership Only associations which are system currently consists of 209 responsible for organising and members, which are the national supervising football in all of its forms associations responsible for in its country may become governing the sport of ‘Association ‘Members’ of FIFA. Further, only one Football’ in their respective association in each country shall be FIFA countries. recognised as a Member by FIFA. Statutes FIFA also recognises the Membership is only permitted if an ‘Confederations’ that are formed by association is also a member of a Members that belong to the same Confederation. continent/geographical regions in FIFA may, in exceptional the world. The Confederations that circumstances, authorise a are recognised by FIFA include: Confederation to grant membership to an association that belongs Confederación Sudamericana de
Which are the international or global governing bodies for their respective sports and disciplines; and National Olympic Committees (NOCs): Which are principal national level sports organisations vested with the exclusive authority for the representation of their respective countries at the Olympic Games as well as any regional, continental or world multi-sports competitions patronised by the IOC and for sending the country’s athletes to such competitions. national level. The statutes, practice and activities of the IFs are required to be in conformity with the Olympic Charter, including the adoption and implementation of the World Code. NOCs National sports organisations applying for NOC recognition are required to file an application with the IOC demonstrating that the applicants fulfil all conditions prescribed by the Olympic Charter. The application for recognition is to be accompanied by proof that the national sports federations, which are the members of each prospective NOC exercise a specific and real on-going sports activity in their country and internationally, in particular by organising and participating in competitions and implementing training programmes for athletes, in their respective sports and disciplines. The approval of an applicant’s statutes by the IOC Executive Board is a condition for recognition. The same condition applies to any subsequent change or amendment to the statutes of an NOC. FIFA Statutes FIFA’s single-tiered membership system currently consists of 209 members, which are the national associations responsible for governing the sport of ‘Association Football’ in their respective countries. FIFA also recognises the ‘Confederations’ that are formed by Members that belong to the same continent/geographical regions in the world. The Confederations that are recognised by FIFA include: Confederación Sudamericana de Only associations which are responsible for organising and supervising football in all of its forms in its country may become ‘Members’ of FIFA. Further, only one association in each country shall be recognised as a Member by FIFA. Membership is only permitted if an association is also a member of a Confederation. FIFA may, in exceptional circumstances, authorise a Confederation to grant membership to an association that belongs
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