Founding year orders sport governing bodies by the year each one was established. Wikipedia notes FIFA "was founded on 21 May 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland." Browsing by founding year traces how organized sport administration has grown over time.
Founding Year
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What sits between a world sport federation and a national one in this atlas?
Continental Sport Confederations, the regional tier between a world federation and a single country's own federation.
Continental Sport Confederations covers the regional tier between a world federation and a national one, covering the six continental confederations that govern association football across Asia, Africa, North and Central America and the Caribbean, South America, Oceania and Europe. Any body coordinating one sport across a continent or region belongs here, distinct from the world federation itself and from a single country's federation.