About Federation International Football Skating

Who We Are

Federation International Football Skating (FIFS) is the official world governing body dedicated to the regulation, development, recognition, and international expansion of Football Skating as an independent and globally developing sport.

Working across five continents, FIFS leads the structured growth of Football Skating through official pathways for international events, national federations, national clubs, school development, education, coaching, refereeing, recognition, and licensing.

FIFS is committed to building a strong and sustainable future for the sport by expanding its global structure, strengthening its professional foundations, and creating new pathways for participation, competition, and long-term international growth.

What Football Skating Is

Football Skating is the name of the sport itself. It is a distinct and independent sport with its own identity, structure, philosophy, technical evolution, and international direction.

Under the global framework of Football Skating, FIFS develops and governs the following official disciplines:

• FUTINS
• RollerSoccer
• Ice Football Skating
• Freestyle Football Skating

These disciplines represent different expressions of the sport while remaining connected to the wider Football Skating identity led by FIFS.

Our Global Role

FIFS serves as the official global authority responsible for guiding the international development of Football Skating through governance, event structures, official standards, and long-term expansion strategies.

The federation works to establish and support Football Skating in national systems, clubs, schools, universities, and youth pathways, while also encouraging wider international participation through competitions, educational structures, recognition systems, and official organizational growth.

FIFS is not limited to maintaining current structures. It is actively working to expand the sport into new countries, new institutions, new age groups, and new competitive platforms across the world.

Our Official Disciplines

As the world governing body of Football Skating, FIFS officially governs and develops four recognized disciplines:

• FUTINS
• RollerSoccer
• Ice Football Skating
• Freestyle Football Skating

Each discipline contributes to the growth of Football Skating in a unique way, expanding the sport across different playing environments, technical formats, and competitive experiences.

Together, these disciplines strengthen the diversity, creativity, and international potential of Football Skating under one global federation structure.

Our Development Mission

FIFS is committed to the long-term development of Football Skating from grassroots to world level.

Its development mission includes the expansion of the sport through national federations, national clubs, schools, universities, youth structures, educational systems, coach development, referee development, and official recognition pathways.

The federation is also committed to helping Football Skating become more visible and more active in schools and educational institutions, while creating more opportunities for structured participation and future international competition.

FIFS believes that real sport development requires more than repetition. It requires vision, creativity, new ideas, and consistent professional management. For this reason, the federation is continuously working to introduce new formats, new opportunities, and new pathways for growth across different parts of the world.

Our Values and Sporting Philosophy

One of the defining values of FIFS is its commitment to real equality, inclusion, creativity, and innovation.

Football Skating is one of the few sports in which girls and boys can compete together within the same team structure, reflecting the federation's vision for a modern and inclusive sporting culture. At the same time, FIFS also reserves the right, depending on the event structure, country context, and competition model, to organize certain competitions with separate women's and men's categories where appropriate.

This flexibility reflects a broader philosophy: Football Skating is not bound to one fixed format. FIFS believes in designing competitions, pathways, and structures in ways that best support the development of the sport in different environments and cultures.

The federation does not seek to copy other sports or imitate other federations. Instead, FIFS continues to shape Football Skating as a unique and independent sport with its own identity, values, standards, and global direction.

Innovation, Identity and Independence

FIFS believes that Football Skating must continue to grow through originality, not imitation.

The federation is committed to preserving the sport as a unique international discipline with its own technical identity, its own laws of the game, its own refereeing structure, and its own development strategy.

A clear example of this identity is the official Football Skating ball in size 5.5, a unique specification developed specifically for the sport and recognized as part of its technical character under FIFS.

From the laws of the game to refereeing systems, from technical regulations to equipment identity, Football Skating continues to develop as a sport that stands on its own foundations and does not depend on copying any other federation or sport model.

FIFS sees innovation as a permanent responsibility. The federation aims to bring forward new ideas, new formats, new event concepts, and new development systems that help Football Skating grow in a more creative, professional, and globally relevant way.

Event Vision and Competitive Expansion

FIFS is working to expand the competitive future of Football Skating through a wider and more dynamic international event structure.

In addition to World Cup development, the federation is continuously exploring and developing new event formats, including school-based world competitions, Ice Football Skating events, open international cups, regional events, continental leagues, world leagues, and other official competition models under the federation's structure.

Depending on the event format, FIFS may organize competitions under different participation models. Some events may follow a national representative format, where only one official team represents each country. Other events may operate under club, school, or open participation formats, where multiple clubs or schools from one country may participate in the same competition.

This flexible and innovative approach reflects the federation's belief that Football Skating should not remain limited to one repetitive competitive model. Instead, it should continue to evolve through creative event design, professional management, and international adaptability.

Strategic Delivery and International Operations

As part of its international operational and development strategy, FIFS works closely with IPTC as its key strategic and operational partner in selected areas related to event organization, development delivery, education, licensing, recognition systems, and the execution of international programs and competitions.

Since 2014, IPTC has played an important role in supporting the international development of Football Skating and continues to do so under the federation's long-term development vision through 2030.

Within the approved framework of FIFS, IPTC plays a central role in operational delivery related to World Cups, continental events, educational systems, licensing structures, and selected international development programs. This includes areas such as host-country coordination, event operations, opening and closing ceremonies, sponsorship coordination, media activities, governmental meetings, international and local contracting processes, and the educational and certification pathways linked to referees, coaches, and official development systems.

In the context of future World Cups and major events, IPTC serves as a key operational channel for strategic coordination, contractual development, and delivery planning in alignment with FIFS authority and technical oversight.

At the same time, FIFS retains full federation authority over governance, official recognition, technical structures, competition standards, and the broader international direction of the sport.

Looking Ahead

FIFS is building the future of Football Skating as a serious, structured, and globally expanding sport.

From historical preservation and technical innovation to school pathways, international competitions, official recognition systems, and long-term development planning, the federation continues to work toward a stronger position for Football Skating in every corner of the world.

With a clear vision for 2030 and 2035, FIFS aims to expand the sport through stronger structures, more events, wider international participation, and more professional development systems that will help Football Skating become a more recognized part of global sport culture.

The federation's direction is clear: to grow Football Skating not as a temporary trend, but as a unique, enduring, and internationally respected sport for future generations.