Formation | 1880 |
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Type | National Sport Organization |
Headquarters | Ottawa, Ontario |
Membership | Paid by individual, team and/or league |
Official languages | English and French |
President | Jim Mullin[1] |
Website | footballcanada |
Football Canada is the governing body for gridiron football in Canada headquartered in Ottawa, Ontario. Football Canada focuses primarily its own Canadian form of the sport, and is currently the world's only national governing body for Canadian football.
The governing body is also Canada's representative member of the International Federation of American Football (IFAF), the world's governing body for American football. In this capacity, it organizes the Canada men's national team which competes in IFAF competitions using American rules.