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Since its launch in 2019, the Football for Schools programme has taken its rightful place in more than half of FIFA’s Member Associations and become a key part of the lives of over 40 million pupils. On 20, 21 and 22 March, it was Vietnam’s turn to join the F4S …

If the FIFA World Cup 2022 has given wings to host country Qatar, as witnessed by its recent AFC Asian Cup triumph, it is a whole region that shares in the tremendous legacy left by the showpiece event. Indeed, the impact of the World Cup has benefited the entire Middle …

Building on the momentum of an intense and fruitful 2023 – a further 71 FIFA member associations introduced the programme – the FIFA Football for Schools programme and its team have set off again on the road to meet schoolchildren eager to learn through football. There is still a long …

The International Day of Education celebrates the vital role that education plays in peace and human development and was launched by the United Nations in 2018. A year later, in September 2019, Puerto Rico became the first country to adopt FIFA Football for Schools (F4S), FIFA’s programme that aims to …

The International Day of Education celebrates the vital role that education plays in peace and human development. It was launched by the United Nations in 2018, which was also the same year that the Football for Schools programme saw the light of day at the eighth FIFA Council meeting in …

Union Minister for Education and Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, Dharmendra Pradhan, attended the kick-off programme for the distribution of footballs as part of the Football for Schools (F4S) in Cuttack, Odisha, on Sunday, December 3, 2023. He distributed footballs at PM Shri Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya in Mundali, Cuttack, under this …

FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura has attended the kick-off ceremony of the FIFA Football for Schools (F4S) programme in Laos, and hailed the efforts of the Lao Football Federation (LFF) to bring girls and women into the game. The FIFA Football for Schools programme was launched in 2019 with the …

The FIFA Football For Schools (F4S) capacity-building/Train-the-Trainer programmes were held in Bengaluru, Pune and Sambalpur from October 2 to 6, 2023. The programmes was attended by Fatimata Sow Sidibe – Director, FIFA Football for Schools, Antonio Buenano Sanchez – Program Manager, FIFA Football for Schools, Amlan Kamal – Consultant (India), …

“2023 will be a year of consolidating achievements and strengthening the monitoring and evaluation system.” This announcement by Fatimata Sidibe, Director of Football for Schools (F4S) last December at the end of an eventful 2022 year followed the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, during which F4S had a dedicated space …

FIFA F4S (Football For Schools), in collaboration with Ministry of Education, Skill Development & Entrepreneurship of Govt. of India (MoE), All India Football Federation (AIFF), and Sports Authority of India (SAI), is set to conduct a Capacity Building/ Train-the-Trainer Programme from October 2 to 6, across three different cities of …