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
German football clubs in European competitions German football clubs in European competitions German football clubs hold the 3rd place in UEFA ranking and represented by 4 clubs in UEFA Champions League and 3 clubs in UEFA Europa League. The last years the German football has risen and that can be confirmed from the appearance two German clubs in the final of 2012–13 Champions League. The German football has won the interest all of Europe because the majority of associations are financially healthy and the spectators in stadiums have been rising. During first years of European competitions Germany was divided to West and East Germany. So initially