About The IFA

 

The Internet Football Association represents the teams of football e-mail discussion groups and message boards across the UK. At present we have members from all the Scottish and all the English divisions as well as a number of teams from mainland Europe.

In the early nineties many supporters, particularly ex-pats kept in touch with other fans via email. These people tended to be mainly people in technical or academic employment as email was widely available in those professions. These are the people who formed the Internet Football Association in 1996.

With the expansion of the world wide web we now include fans from all sorts of backgrounds as well as those who communicate via message boards as well as email lists.


Our founder was Dave “Voice of Football”Walmsley and to him and his unmatched enthusiasm we are eternally grateful.

To read a longer piece on our history download A History Of The IFA [Adobe Acrobat PDF - 44.72 KB]