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
Slovak football clubs in European competitions a score of 1.500 during the 2012–13 European campaign, Slovakia is ranked by UEFA as the 26th best association in Europe out of 54 - down one place from 48th the previous season. <section end=firstroundmatch /> Slovak football clubs in European competitions Slovak football clubs have participated in European football competitions since 1956. Before 1993 Slovakia was a part of Czechoslovakia, therefore Slovak teams represented this country and did not always have a spot in European competitions. "All statistics and records are accurate as of 30 September 2018." For the 2014–15 UEFA competitions, the associations were allocated places according to