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
Moldovan football clubs in European competitions Moldovan football clubs in European competitions Moldovan football clubs have participated in European football competitions since 1993.<ref name="Constructorul/Tiraspol in UEFA competitions">Constructorul/Tiraspol in UEFA competitions</ref> For the 2019–20 UEFA competitions, the associations were allocated places according to their 2018 UEFA country coefficients, which take into account their performance in European competitions from 2013–14 to 2017–18. In the 2018 rankings that are used for the 2019–20 European competitions, Moldova's coefficient points total is 10.000. Moldova is ranked by UEFA as the 33rd association in Europe out of 55. "As of 17 December 2018 "As of 30 August 2018" Moldovan clubs have not