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CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football)

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Also Known As CONCACAF
Continental Sport Confederations

CONCACAF was formed 18 September 1961 in Mexico City from a merger of the North American Football Confederation and the Confederacion Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol, and now has 41 member associations across North America, Central America, the Caribbean and three South American territories. It launched the CONCACAF Nations League in 2018. The confederation was central to the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal: long-serving president Jack Warner resigned in June 2011 amid corruption allegations, his general secretary Chuck Blazer was separately implicated, and Warner's successor Jeffrey Webb was arrested on corruption charges in Switzerland on 27 May 2015. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Body Type
Continental confederation 1
Founded
1961 1
Founded in its current form 18 September 1961 in Mexico City, from a merger of the North American Football Confederation and the Confederacion Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol.
Headquarters
Miami, Florida, United States 1
Founders
Formed through the merger of the North American Football Confederation (NAFC) and the Confederacion Centroamericana y del Caribe de Futbol (CCCF); Costa Rican Ramon Coll Jaumet became its first leader. 1
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1. Wikipedia, CONCACAF
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  • History section, founding paragraph
    CONCACAF was founded in its current form on September 18, 1961, in Mexico City, Mexico, with the merger of the NAFC and the CCCF.
  • Governs: Association Football
  • Associated With: FIFA (Federation Internationale de Football Association), Lead, sentence 1
    six continental governing bodies for association football
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