UEFA secretary and Ebbe Schwartz the first president. The current president is Aleksander Čeferin, a former Football Association of Slovenia president, who was elected as UEFA's seventh president at the 12th Extraordinary UEFA Congress in Athens in September 2016, and automatically became a vice-president of the world body FIFA. UEFA was founded on 15 June 1954 in Basel, Switzerland after consultation between the Italian, French, and Belgian associations. The European football union began with 25 members; that number doubled by the early 1990s. Until 1959 the main headquarters were located in Paris, and later in Bern. In 1995, UEFA headquarters were
Athletic Bilbao in European football for qualification seeding purposes in the continental tournaments for the upcoming season. "At end of 2017–18 season." (end of 2017–18 participation) (end of 2017–18 participation) "Athletic Bilbao score displayed first in all results; (end of 2017–18 participation)" From official website: Athletic Bilbao in European football Athletic Bilbao, a professional football club based in Bilbao, Basque Country, Spain, has competed in international tournaments as representatives of La Liga since 1956. The club's first entry into an official competition organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) was the in 1956–57 (its second edition) as national champions; they reached the quarter-finals.