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Awesome news for the next generation of freestylers from all around the world: one of the WFFA’s most important global tournaments, the WFFA NextGen World Championship, is back in 2025!

This year’s competition will take place on a fully digital basis between the months of October and November. In order to offer the best and easiest experience to the athletes, the tournament will utilise FS Meet for registration and results, as well as WhatsApp to manage the competition. 

Following the tradition, the 2025 edition of the NextGen Championship event will culminate in a live final that will be broadcast on the official channels of the WFFA: the best male and female u16 freestylers in the world will be crowned champions!

Remember: to participate in the NextGen Championship, you must be 15 years of age or younger on the date in which registrations close. See below for more information!

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Registration

Registrations for the 2025 WFFA NextGen World Championship cost 5€ and will be open between October 17th and October 31st. All freestylers are asked to sign up using the corresponding FS Meet widget; however, if a freestyler is not able to pay via credit card or PayPal, they are kindly asked to send an email to next.gen@worldfreestylefootball.org and the team will get back to them with alternatives.

Important: no new signups will be accepted after October 31st, so make sure to register on time!

To sign up, please visit the FS Meet page of the event and follow the registration process, including the uploading of the corresponding Parental Form. Once your form is approved, you will receive a WhatsApp message with all instructions on how to participate.

Do not forget that, in order to participate, you will need to be 15 years of age or younger when registrations close on October 31st, 2025!

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Competition structure

This year, the WFFA NextGen World Championship will follow this timeline:

• October 17th to October 31st: Registration period. Signing up for the event costs 5€; if a freestyler is not able to pay with credit card or PayPal, they just need to send an email to next.gen@worldfreestylefootball.org and the team will offer them an alternative. No registrations will be accepted after October 31st at 23:59h CEST
• November 3rd to November 8th: Circles Stage. The Tournament Manager will be in touch with all participants to send them the participation instructions and retrieve their videos. Beware: videos sent after the corresponding deadline will NOT be accepted
• November 11th to November 23rd: Knockout stage. The final structure will be communicated on the official channels of the WFFA. The Tournament Manager will be in touch with all qualified participants to send them the corresponding instructions and retrieve their videos. Beware: videos sent after the corresponding deadline will NOT be accepted
• November 30th: Live Finals on the official platforms of the WFFA

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Format

The tournament will begin with the Circles stage, in which freestylers will be split into groups and asked to send three videos for the judges to give it their scores on a scale from 1 to 10. The freestylers with highest scores across all Circles will progress onto the next stage, regardless of their position in said Circles; the general ranking coming from these Circles (that is, the total amount of points earned by each freestyler, accumulating the points earned by each of their three videos) will be used to determine the battles in the Knockout Stage.

In case of a draw between two athletes, the usual tie breaking system applies and the winner is decided by the judge count. Each judge’s choice is counted as one vote, so the player who gets the majority of judges’ votes wins: for example, if two judges scored one player higher and one judge favoured the other, the first athlete will win 2–1.

Once the Circles are complete, the Knockout Stage will take place on a fully online basis, with the Tournament Manager contacting the athletes to request their videos. The definitive structure will be announced on the official channels of the WFFA.

Beware: throughout all online qualifiers, any freestyler who doesn’t send their videos on time will be disqualified.

Last but not least, the best freestylers will make it to the Grand Finals, happening in a live event which will be broadcast on the official channels of the WFFA. More information and the corresponding links to follow the Finals live will be posted on the channels of the Association: stay tuned!

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Rules

The 2025 edition of the WFFA NextGen Championship will use the Official Rules of Freestyle Football for its battles. Any specific rules and regulations affecting the competition will be published on the corresponding page of the WFFA website.

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Judges

The team of judges for this year’s edition of the WFFA NextGen Championship will be announced on the official channels of the WFFA: stay tuned to discover who will evaluate the skills of the participants!

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Prizes

This year’s edition of the WFFA NextGen Championship will reward not just the male and female champions of its 1×1 Battles competition, but also offer awards to two extra categories in a similar fashion as in past editions. More information will be released on the official channels of the WFFA!

For more information, send us an email at next.gen@worldfreestylefootball.org or a DM to our official Instagram account at @thewffa!

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Support documents

		Parental form: a necessary document for all under-18 freestylers, to be sent to next.gen@worldfreestylefootball.org after the registration process via FS Meet
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Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!