Football Canada
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This article is about the Canadian version of gridirion football organization. For the governing body for association football in Canada, see Canadian Soccer Association. For other topics, see Football in Canada (disambiguation).
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.
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Formation | 1880; 144 years ago (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 |
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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.