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
Montenegrin clubs in European football competitions winner of the Montenegrin Cup also plays in the Europa league. UEFA Country Ranking for league participation in 2018–19 European football season (Previous year rank in italics) Since independence (2006) and establishing of Montenegrin First League and other national competitions, Montenegro is a full-member of UEFA. Since then, Montenegrin League is present on UEFA Country Ranking system. Below is a historical list of Montenegrin rankings and country coefficient. Sources: Historically, Montenegrin football clubs played in three UEFA competitions for clubs - the UEFA Champions League, UEFA Europe League ("formerly UEFA Cup") and Intertoto Cup. The champions of Montenegro have never