Nov 3, 2009

The echos of enthusiastic enjoyment from the players in the first Americas Cup had scarcely faded from the Swannee sports halls, yet on Monday morning, 26 October 2009 six National Organisations of Powerchair Football gathered in a conference room in nearby Gwinnette Place for the biennial governing body of FIPFA (Belgium, Canada, England, France, Portugal as...

In June 1994, three years after the first official French Powerchair Football championship, an able-bodied French football coach decided to organize a very original tournament ! Dominique Scelles, boss of a company selling medical equipment, had the idea to organize a friendly match of able-bodied and disabled footballers. The idea is simple but still he had to...

After a number of emails conversations FIPFA President Hervé Delattre and FIPFA Sports Department President Adam Parry recently spent 2 days in Singapore with a view to lending support. Over the 2 days the FIPFA delegate met with Singapore Disability Sports Council, Singapore Futsal Association and the Muscular Dystrophy Association (Singapore). Singapore...

Jul 6, 2008

Powerchair Football is a team sport played in a power wheelchair that respects the sale rules as football: An indoor basketball court with a specific floor marking Powerchair adapted to the play of football thanks to a footguard that that enables the player to control and hit the ball A ball of 13 inches Official game play at international – two halves of...