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
The UEFA Plaque UEFA awarding Juventus with the UEFA Plaque, four other clubs have won the three main European competitions: Ajax (1992), Bayern Munich (1996), Chelsea (2013) and Manchester United (2017). The UEFA Plaque The UEFA Plaque is an honorary recognition given by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to Italian side Juventus Football Club when they won all three major , namely the European Champions Clubs’ Cup or Champions League, Cup Winners' Cup and UEFA Cup or Europa League (first team in European football history to do so). The award consists of a rectangular silver plaque on which are superimposed three