Overview

CHINA 2017 The World Football Forum 2017 will take place in the Chinese city of Changsha on 18-21 May. The event in 2017 will be the first ever edition to take place outside of Europe, and will bring the global football industry to the heart of football’s ‘new geography’ - to one of the sport’s most exciting and fast-growing new markets. China’s football-loving President Xi has prioritized the development of the domestic game, unlocking a vast new market which is leading the pack of emerging football powerhouses of the 21st Century. EVENT HISTORY In 2011, Eventica launched the first World Football Forum in Moscow, following the announcement of Russia’s first FIFA World Cup™ in 2018. Since then, this annual event has become firmly established in the football industry calendar, bringing together leading figures from football across the globe in major football hubs around the world. In 2016, WFF took place in Paris at the culmination of UEFA EURO 2016, however the scope of the event reached far beyond the confines of European football. Prominent names in football governance and the wider industry in the rapidly developing sports markets of China and India were the focus of the event, underscoring WFF’s commitment to highlighting opportunities in dynamic new markets.