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International Football Association Board

LC control no.no2019002017
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Corporate name headingInternational Football Association Board
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Variant(s)IFAB
International FA Board
Beginning date1886-06-02
Field of activitySoccer--Rules
AffiliationFootball Association (England) Scottish Football Association Football Association of Wales Irish Football Association Fédération internationale de football association
Found in125th anniversary of the IFAB, 2011: cover (International Football Association Board ; the body meets once a year) p. 8 (on 2 June 1886, a group of like-minded men met in offices at Holborn Viaduct in London, convinced of the need to establish a supreme authority to enshrine and protect football rules) p. 9 (inaugral meeting in 1886) p. 14 (International FA Board founded by the British associations ; 1913: FIFA joins the International FA Board)
Wikipedia WWW site, viewed 30 November 2018 (International Football Association Board is the body that determines the Laws of the Game of association football ; is made up of representatives from each of the United Kingdom's pioneering football associations - England's Football Association, the Scottish Football Association, the Football Association of Wales and Northern Ireland's Irish Football Association and Fédération Internationale de Football Association, the international governing body for football)