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
Macedonian football clubs in European competitions Macedonian football clubs in European competitions Macedonian football clubs have participated in European football competitions since 1961. Before 1992 Macedonia was a part of Yugoslavia. Therefore, Macedonian teams represented this country and did not always have a guaranteed spot in European competitions. "All statistics and records are accurate as of 8 August 2018." "As of 8 August 2018." For the 2018–19 UEFA competitions, the associations will be allocated places according to their 2017 UEFA country coefficients, which will take into account their performance in European competitions from 2012–13 to 2016–17. In the 2017 rankings that will be used for the