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The global competitive circuit of Freestyle Football returns to the Americas for yet another thrilling competition: WFFA Pulse Santiago, the South American qualifier for the Finals of the World Freestyle Football Championship, is around the corner!

This new instalment of the Pulse Series will take place in Santiago de Chile between October 7th and 11th. The best 8 freestylers (4 males and 4 females) will earn themselves a trip to the World Freestyle Football Championship!

Besides the 1×1 Battles competition acting as the qualifier for the World Finals, the Pulse Santiago 2026 week will also include the Pan American Freestyle Football Open, a tournament for all freestylers from the continent which will feature the following categories:

Routine
Challenge
Sick Three
Iron Man & Woman
Panna 1×1

The Pan American Open will also include two new categories: a National 5×5 Freestyle Battles championship, a competition created specifically for National teams of 5 freestylers (with one single team per country), and a 3×3 Street Football event which will take place before the start of the Freestyle Football tournament. Participants to both of these tournaments will be asked to let the organisers know at the check-in which team they are in and who is their captain to formalise their registration and pay the corresponding fee (50€ per 5×5 Freestyle National team, 30€ per 3×3 Street Football team).

The signups process for this event will open on April 2nd and close on September 21st; there will be no extensions, so all athletes who haven’t signed up by the end of the registration period will not be allowed to compete.

The WFFA has set up a refund policy for registrations for all Pulse Events: athletes who can’t travel due to a justified reason (i.e. sickness, injury or denial of travel visa) can ask for their money back, but in the case of the Santiago de Chile event, only before August 30th.

We expect all participants to sign up using the FS Meet widget; however, if a freestyler finds issues in the payment process or doesn’t have the ability to pay via credit card, we kindly ask them to send us an email at pulse-series@worldfreestylefootball.org and we’ll find an alternative solution for them at a small extra cost.

The organising committee strongly recommends all athletes who need a visa to get their invitation letter first using the form available below. Once they are cleared to travel, they may sign up as participants.

Athletes under the age of 18 will be allowed to participate, but they will need to send a signed Parental Form to pulse-series@worldfreestylefootball.org at the end of the registration process. For more details, check the links below!

Pulse Series invite letter request 2026

If you need an official invitation letter from the WFFA to participate in an event of the 2026 Pulse Series, fill in this form and we’ll prepare it for you!

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Support documents

Are you willing to compete in this event? Then make sure to check the files in the list below: they include all the information you may need to make the most out of your trip!

		Parental form: a necessary document for all under-18 freestylers, to be sent to pulse-series@worldfreestylefootball.org at the end of the registration process via FS Meet
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		Rules: get to know how participants will be evaluated in each of the disciplines of the event (In process)

Stay tuned to the official channels of the WFFA to follow the latest updates!

Tag: 5×5 Championship

WFFA Pulse Santiago 2026

Pulse Series invite letter request 2026

Support documents