FFF Body

The Fédération Française de Football, the supreme French football authority, has adapted its structures and organisation to the evolution of the top sport practiced in France.

  The responsibility for 2 million members – including 800 professionals – and of 21,000 clubs, and the organization of nearly one million matches each year, can only be assured by a delegatory organization. The FFF has therefore created the following bodies to which it has entrusted the management of professional and amateur football :  

• The League Nationale de Football (LNF) for professional football (42 clubs) 
• The Conseil National du Football Amateur (CNFA) (21,000 clubs).
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  In order to ensure a grass-roots approach, FFF action is decentralized into 31 regional leagues and 102 departmental districts. Within these structures, 350,000 unpaid and 7,000 salaried workers devote themselves every day to French football.