What is Federation of International Sports Table Football mean? The Federation of International Sports Table Football (FISTF) is the governing body for all Sports table football worldwide. FISTF was the result of negotiations between FISA (Federation of International Subbuteo Associations, founded 1979) members and E(S)TF (European (Sport) Table Football Federation, founded 1963) to unify sports table football/soccer associations within one governing body. FISTF was founded in 1992 and in September 1993 the first official European Championships were played in Belgium. The sport is now well administered worldwide by (FISTF).
The sport is known as Sports table football and based on the table top game of Subbuteo and Newfooty. The Competitions are now organised under FISTF with strict organisation rules listed in the FISTF handbook. WASPA is a players association and has flexible organisation rules for emerging players, organisers, clubs and Nations, to promote the sport/game on all continents.
The latest development tournament is the newly created Youth Club (team) Champions League (YCL), which was due to be played in Bolognia 23/24 May 2020 (2nd edition), but was postponed because of Covid-19. The European Championship played in 1993, 1995, 1997 and 1999 saw a comeback after 20 years in 2019. The host Nation was Belgium with the City of Frameries 29/30 June 2019. The next edition will be in 2021 with Host Nation of Gibraltar. The Confederation of South American Championship will be played in October 2021. The Club Champions League will be in Athens (GRE) and Europa League in Eugies (BEL) in October 2021.
The 23rd edition of the FISTF World Cup will be in Rome (ITA), Original date 5/6 September 2020, but pushed forward to 2022. This will be the overall 30th World Cup including the Subbuteo World Cups played from 1970 to 1994. Information on the www.fistf.com website.
COVID-19 spread: Due to the wide virus spread in Italy, FISTF and FISCT with the organising committee have decided to postpone the World Cup 2020 to 2022. A date shall be named as soon as it may be possible. Several events from February to December 2020 had to be postponed or cancelled, as the Virus spread from China to Japan, Singapore and within February to Europe, march in America and Africa. Many host clubs have cancelled FISTF tournaments.
The next edition of the Confederation Asia Cup will be in Japan, 2021.The upcoming edition of the Confederation of North America Championship/Cup will be in Lansing, Michigan (USA) in late 2021.
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