Sports Federation

• Organizes competitions, attracting, if necessary, sponsors . Conversely, if someone wants to organize the competition himself, he contacts the federation.
• Publishes a calendar of competitions held in the territory under its control.
• Engaged in the development of rules - the rules of the game, the criteria for admission of equipment , the rules of the competition, standards for a particular sports category .
• Prepares sports judges .
• Leads ratings of athletes and judges, penalizes the guilty.
• Popularize the sport.

A sports federation usually captures one sport or several related ones: for example, FIFA is responsible for football and futsal . Although there are multisports organizations (for example, the International Olympic Committee ). There is a situation when there are several federations in one sport. Then the wording about the organization is introduced, for example, “ UBE World Boxing Champion” or “ AMF Futsal ”.

Athletes come in all levels, ranging from courtyards to international class athletes. Accordingly, federations may also manage professional sports , high-performance sports , or amateur sports. In particular, the rules of professional American hockey ( National Hockey League ) and international ( International Ice Hockey Federation ) are somewhat different.

Depending on the territory covered, the federations are global, regional, national, regional, provincial, city ... For example, the FIFA International Football Federation is subordinate to the Union of European Football Associations of UEFA , the Russian Football Union .

Russia

In the Soviet Union, the first such section began its work in 1920, and in 1959 such sections were transformed into federations. After the collapse of the USSR, all sports federations were renamed Russian ^[1] .

In 2004, there were 200 international sports federations and other similar international associations in the world.