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
Wales at the UEFA European Championship reached the semi-finals before losing 0–2 to Portugal, who went on to win the final. Wales at the UEFA European Championship This is a record of Wales' results at the UEFA European Championship. The UEFA European Championship, previously known at European Nations' Cup, is an international association football competition contested by the men's national teams of the members of "Union of European Football Associations" (UEFA), the administrative body for association football in Europe. The championship has been awarded every four years, since the first tournament in 1960. The tournament consists of two parts, the qualification phase and the final phase