DSAFF

The Democratic Socialist Assembly Football Federation (DSAFF) is a major administrative and governing body of association football in Delusia. It is headquartered in Clinepalas, Talamia and counts several technical departments in all its affiliated nations.

DSAFF was founded in February 2021, representing national football associations around the world, and running nation and club competitions. Its membership now comprises 22 national associations. Conceived as an exclusive federation for Delusia, over time it also welcomed nationals from the rest of the multiverse, becoming an important reality at an interglobal level.

Today, DSAFF outlines a number of objectives in the organizational Statues, including growing football trans-regionally, providing efforts to ensure football is accessible to everyone, and advocating for integrity and fair play.

History
The nations of Delusia had always organized sporting events and competitions. The DSA Winter and Summer Olympics are almost a fixture on the planet. The interest in football, however, was never much.

Located on the west coast of the continent Romaxia, the nation known as Talamia, on the other hand, has a great history and culture founded on football. Internally, Talamia was the only nation to have its own football federation on Delusia at the time: the TLS (Talamia Laktisma Summaka), governing a national football team and a Talamia's own domestic league: the Alfa League. The strong cultural football tradition of Talamia pushed Talamian sports' minister Antheo Karabos to propose the formation of a body to govern football at an international level.

On February 2021, the DSAFF was born, as can be read in the official statute of the federation:

Karabos appointed Oiktirmon-Nicao Paidarion president of the newly-born federation. Paidarion had already been president and founder of the Talamian club Afestosja and he is known for his revolutionary approach to sports organization in general.

The very first goal of the federation was to organize a tournament for national teams for the summer of 2021, the Comrades Cup, and one for the club teams, the DSA Champions League, to be started in the 2021/2022 or 2022/2023 season, depending on the response of the nations within Delusia.

The federation's headquarters were located in Talamia's capital, Clinepalas, along Orisma odo, the historic street entirely dedicated to football that leads to the national stadium: the EpopSfaira Stadium, home of the Ptoco and SF Lampride clubs.

In April 2021, the federation decided to expand its borders and also include other nations by invitation, outside the planet Delusia.

On May the 4th 2021, Paidairon publicly announced the creation of the DSAFF Comrades Cup. This was the first tournament organized by the federation and was hosted in Talamia. Sixteen teams took part in it. Ardelark won the first edition of what became DSAFF's flagship competition.

In June of the same year, Paidarion announced the future organization of three new tournaments: the DSAFF Rose Cup (a competition for women's national teams), the DSAFF Blossom League (an under-21 national team competition that replaces many of the slots previously used for friendlies) and the DSAFF Champions League (an annual club football competition contested by top-division Delusian clubs).

The first edition of the Rose Cup was hosted and won by Bhexa and its women's national team, which defeated the Torshavnese Empire women's national football team in the final match 2-1 after extra time. Bhexian player Bríxida Barela was the very first women to score a goal in an official DSAFF competition.

Image
The task of designing DSAFF's first logo was entrusted to the Talamian designer Ule Nkanki, author of the Alfa League and TSS logos.

Nkanki opted for a simple rose, to take up the flag of the Democratic Socialist Assembly, within which he decided to embed a soccer ball. The color red, synonymous with socialism, predominates within the logo. On the left of the squad, almost to give it life, the initials of the federation: DSAFF. A line between the letters separates the acronyms "DSA", underlining them, and "FF", passing through them.

Structure
In total, DASFF recognizes 22 national associations and their associated national teams and football federations as its members. As of August 2021, the football federations outside Delusia are the Ardelarkian Football Federation, the Kepler-0085 Football Federation, the Krbustan Football Federation and the Saralonia Football Federation.

DSAFF has its own ranking system, the DSAFF MexiCola™ Ranking, created to ensure fairer competitions. The DSAFF Rankings are updated after the end of each tournament using the YRF formula. They are based on men's, women's and under-21 national team's and clubs performances in competitions, qualifiers, and friendly matches. Teams are ranked based on their game results with the most successful teams being ranked highest.

Laws and governance
DSAFF is headquartered in Clinepalas and it is an association established under the law of Talamia.

DSAFF's supreme body is the DSAFF Congress, an assembly made up of representatives from each affiliated member association. Each national football association has one vote, regardless of its size or footballing strength.

Congress makes decisions relating to DSAFF's governing statutes and their method of implementation and application. Only the DSAFF Congress can pass changes to the statutes. The Congress approves the annual report, decides on the acceptance of new national associations, elects the President of DSAFF and it is also the body that decides which country will host the tournaments. In order to host a tournament edition, you must submit your application. Each application is put to vote and all member associations have equal weight in the decision.

List of DSAFF members
This is a list of the nations who have an official football federation under the aegis of DSAFF and therefore recognized as official DSAFF members.

National teams

 * DSAFF Comrades Cup
 * DSAFF U-21 Blossom League
 * DSAFF Women's Rose Cup

Clubs

 * DSAFF Champions League