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  • WFFA NextGen World Championship 2025

    WFFA NextGen World Championship 2025

    Sign up and find all the results of the event on FSMeet

    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!

    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!

    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

    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!

    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.

    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!

    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!

    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!

  • WFFA NextGen World Championship 2024

    WFFA NextGen World Championship 2024

    GameDay To sign up, fill in the official registration form on GameDay
    Tournify Find all the official results of the competition on Tournify

    Awesome news for the next generation of freestylers from all around the world: one of the WFFA’s most important tournaments, the World Youth Freestyle Football Championship, is back in 2024 with a brand-new naming and image: enter the WFFA NextGen World Championship!

    This year’s competition will take place on a fully digital basis between the months of October and December. In order to offer the best and easiest experience to the athletes, the tournament will utilise the official platforms of the WFFA (namely GameDay for registrations and Tournify for results), as well as Whatsapp. 

    Following the tradition, the 2024 edition of the NextGen Championship event will culminate in a live final that will be broadcast on Twitch, YouTube and Facebook: the best male and female u16 freestylers in the world will be crowned champions!

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

    Registration

    Registrations for the 2024 WFFA NextGen World Championship cost 5€ and will be open between October 9th and November 9th. All freestylers are asked to sign up using the corresponding GameDay 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@thewffa.org and the team will get back to them with alternatives.

    Important: no new signups will be accepted after November 9th, so make sure to register on time!

    To sign up, follow this process:

    1. Go to the GameDay page of the event and follow the registration process, including the uploading of the corresponding Parental Form at the end
    2. When your form is approved, you will receive a Whatsapp message and you will be able to send the qualification video
    3. The team of judges will select the best 64 videos (32 for boys and 32 for girls) and rank them to progress onto the Circles stage of the competition

    Do not forget that in order to participate you will need to be 15 years of age or younger when registrations close on November 9th, 2024.

    Competition structure

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

    • October 9th to November 9th: 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@thewffa.org and the team will offer them an alternative. No registrations will be accepted after November 9th at 23:59h CET
    • November 12th to November 19th: Qualification stage. Freestylers will be asked to send their qualification videos between those dates. No videos will be accepted after November 19th at 23:59h CET
    • November 22nd to November 29th: Extra Battles, happening via Whatsapp. No videos will be accepted after their respective deadlines; if a freestyler sends fewer than the regular 3 videos (one per round), he or she will be disqualified
    • December 2nd to December 16th: Top 32 and Top 16 in 1×1 Battles format, all happening via Whatsapp. No videos will be accepted after their respective deadlines; if a freestyler sends fewer than the regular 3 videos (one per round), he or she will be disqualified
    • December 22nd: Grand Finals (Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Bronze Battles, Finals) happening on a live event; participants will get all information beforehand so they can prepare accordingly

    Format

    In the qualification stage, freestylers will be asked to send a video for the judges to rank it. The resulting clips will be evaluated by the judges, who will give them scores on a scale from 1 to 10. These marks will be added up, and the participants will then be ranked according to their total score. In case of a score draw between two freestylers, the Head of Judging will intervene and use his quality vote to break the tie.

    Once the qualification videos have been thoroughly evaluated, Circles will then be created according to the aforementioned ranking from the qualification stage and following the usual seeding procedure: the freestyler ranked first will be placed in a group with the last, the second with the second last, and so on.

    In the Circles, the judges will evaluate and score each of the three videos sent by the participants on a scale of 1 to 10. The best freestylers will progress onto the next stage; 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 Top16. In case of a score draw between two freestylers, their marks in the Qualification stage will be used to break the tie. If a freestyler doesn’t send their videos on time, he or she will be disqualified.

    Once the Circles are complete, the Extra Battles and Top 16 stages will take place. They will happen on a fully online basis, with the Tournament Manager contacting the athletes to request their videos. Just like in previous stages, any freestyler who doesn’t send their clips 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.

    Rules

    The 2024 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.

    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!

    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!

    Participant list

    NameSurnameGenderCountry
    HaikalRizuanMaleMalaysia
    YoussefChebbiMaleTunisia
    JoshuaMeehanMaleLuxembourg
    CanMinh DucMaleVietnam
    BenRossMaleIreland
    BlazejMlynekMalePoland
    SoratoOkumuraMaleJapan
    JoasVonkMaleNetherlands
    AmirNezhadJavadMaleIran
    AntonioGiannatiempoMaleItaly
    MingeonKimMaleSouth Korea
    IlianNemozMaleFrance
    Juan FranciscoFidalmeMaleArgentina
    Nielster HaarMaleNetherlands
    jobboeveMaleNetherlands
    AugusteMercklingMaleFrance
    YukiShimoshugaMaleJapan
    AmalieMoerkFemaleDenmark
    FinleyStrangewoodMaleCanada
    JamesTaylorMaleUnited Kingdom
    SeraFukuiFemaleJapan
    ShihayaFukudaMaleJapan
    SoufianeKechchourMaleMorocco
    BenTaylorMaleUnited Kingdom
    calvinSchallMaleUnited States

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

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

  • Sora Suzuki and Shihaya Fukuda take the 2023 Youth Championship titles to Japan

    Sora Suzuki and Shihaya Fukuda take the 2023 Youth Championship titles to Japan

    Tournify Check the official results of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

    The third edition of the World Youth Freestyle Football Championship ended with a blast last Sunday, December 10th as the best under-16 freestylers in the globe competed for the title in thrilling live Finals. In the end, the Japanese community shone brighter than any other as Sora Suzuki and Shihaya Fukuda, both from the land of the rising sun, took the female and male titles respectively.

    In the male category, Karl Jordal from Norway displayed an amazing collection of skills and took the silver medal, while Cấn Minh Đức from Vietnam finished in third place. Meanwhile, in the female bracket, Amalie Mørk from Denmark ended up in the second position after showing an extraordinary level of freestyle, just like Waka Nagamine from Japan, who came up third.

    Apart from the 1v1 battle competition, the WFFA Youth Championship also offered two Special Awards to its participants: Best Trick and Best Freestyle Spirit. The winners of these awards were the following:

    The event was judged by a top-notch team of judges, featuring the likes of Charly Iacono, Paloma P. Mayo, Leon Pokrovsky, Tommaso Daigoro and Yousef ‘Yorok’ Ayman.

    Experience again all the thrills of the 2023 World Youth Freestyle Football Championship on the official YouTube channel of the WFFA:

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    For more information about the dates and structure of the tournament, make sure to visit the corresponding Event Page on the official website of the WFFA!

    For more information about the activities of the WFFA, follow its official channels to get the latest updates!

  • The WFFA opens up registrations for the 2022 Youth Championship

    The WFFA opens up registrations for the 2022 Youth Championship

    GameDay To register, visit the official page of the event at GameDay: click on the logo and sign up now!
    Tournify Check the official results of the tournament on Tournify: click on the logo for more details!

    The World Freestyle Football Association has announced today the opening of registrations for the 2022 edition of the WFFA Youth Championship, the global tournament aimed at the next generation of freestylers. This year’s Youth Championship, which will offer separate categories for boys and for girls, will change its platform and move from the old WFFA App to a more accessible format via Whatsapp: to sign up, participants only need to access the specific page of the competition in GameDay and fill in the corresponding online form before November 7th, 2022 at 23:59h CET.

    The Youth Championship is an under-16 tournament, and hence anyone who wishes to participate will need to be 15 years of age or younger at the time of the closing of registrations on November 7th, 2022. No freestylers aged 16 or older will be accepted into the competition.

    Once freestylers have registered correctly for the tournament, they will receive an email with a link to the Parental Form they will need to send back to the WFFA, conveniently signed by a parent or legal guardian, in order to participate in the competition. As soon as this process is completed, participants will get a message on Whatsapp (or an equivalent messaging platform for countries in which this system is not available) with instructions on how to send their qualification videos.

    The 2022 edition of the WFFA Youth Championship will follow this structure:

    1. October 24th to November 7th: Registration period. No registrations will be accepted after November 7th
    2. November 9th to November 16th: Qualification stage. Freestylers will be asked to send their qualification videos between those dates. No videos will be accepted after November 16th
    3. November 29th to December 5th: Top64 stage in Circles format, all happening via Whatsapp
    4. December 12th to December 15th: Top16 stage in 1×1 battles format, all happening via Whatsapp
    5. December 17th: Grand Finals (Top8, Semifinals, Bronze Battles, Finals) happening on a live event; participants will get all information beforehand so they can prepare accordingly

    The 2022 edition of the WFFA Youth Championship will use the Official Rules of Freestyle Football for its battles. The team of judges for the tournament will be announced on the official channels of the WFFA before the start of the qualification round. Stay tuned!

    For more details about the 2022 WFFA Youth Championship, please visit the corresponding Event Page on our website. All tournament results will be collated on the official Tournify page of the competition.

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

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

  • Becka Hugill and Marco Le Bouteiller win the first World Youth Freestyle Football Championship

    Becka Hugill and Marco Le Bouteiller win the first World Youth Freestyle Football Championship

    The future of Freestyle Football is incredibly bright: this is the happy conclusion of the first-ever World Youth Freestyle Football Championship, a unique tournament that reached its climax on Saturday, November 13th with the announcement of its champions in a special episode of FreestyleTV. After months of extremely high-quality battles featuring hundreds of young starts from all around the world, the team of judges has reached a final decision: the 2021 under-16 world champions are…

    Becka Hugill, from the United Kingdom, and Marco Le Bouteiller, from France!

    Their tremendous level, almost on par with their senior fellow freestylers, has earned them not just a prize in cash, but also a one-year sponsorship of the tournament partner brand, SWRL.

    In the female category, Japanese Hafuri Ito ended up second, and her fellow countrywoman Miu Ozaki took the third spot. In the male category, Brazilian Diego Emanuel won the silver medal, while Polish Olivier Grodecki finished up in the third position.

    To review the full results of the World Youth Freestyle Football Championship, including the videos of all battles, click on this link!

    Apart from the 1v1 battle competition, the World Youth Championship also offered three special awards to its participants: Best Trick, Most Improved Freestyler, and Best Freestyle Spirit. The winners of these awards were the following:

    • Best trick: Waka Nagamine, from Japan, and Marco Le Bouteiller, from France
    • Most Improved Freestyler: Isabel Wilkins, from the UK, and Olivier Grodecki, from Poland
    • Best Freestyle Attitude: Miu Ozaki, from Japan, and Shunpei Ono, also from Japan

    Experience again all the thrills of the battles in the special FreestyleTV episode that aired on the WFFA Twitch and YouTube channels: watch it below!

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

  • The WFFA announces the bracket of the 2021 Youth Championship knockout stage

    The WFFA announces the bracket of the 2021 Youth Championship knockout stage

    The first edition of the World Youth Freestyle Football Championship has advanced onto the online battle stage! The team of judges, led by superstars Melody Donchet and Charly Iacono, have selected the best 32 freestylers (16 boys and 16 girls) out of hundreds and hundreds of entries in the Qualification Stage. The tournament enters now its knockout phase, consisting of individual battles of 3 rounds, each of which allowing 25-to-35-second-long videos.

    From September 30th to October 11th, the participants will need to show their best skills if they want to progress to the Quarterfinals of the tournament. The female and male brackets are available in this article; participants will also find a video tutorial and a short guide on how to upload their videos to the official WFFA App at the end of the post.

    Please find all the relevant information below:

    Knockout stage

    Instructional video

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    Video upload guide

    To check the App usage guide that we’ve prepared for all Youth Championship participants, please click here!
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    More details about the tournament are available on the World Youth Freestyle Football Championship event page.

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

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