JIFF was established in 2016 as one of JFA’s related organisations at the same time as the 7 disability football associations have also been established. Our primary mission is to create an inclusive society through football. We will continue to endeavor and keep moving forward to the end, no matter how much our society and the sport community change due to the spread of the Covid-19.

Since the beginning year, we have been running the “Inclusive Football Festa” with support of our partners and local companies/organisations. As we introduced online-based program, the range of participants, with and without disabilities, is expanding in more parts of Japan.
We introduced the “JIFF official coach registration system” in 2018 with the aim for making anybody can coach persons with disabilities. The number of the registered coaches is increasing at a stable pace and they have started coaching for disability football throughout Japan.

Also, the continuous partnership conferences in the 9 major regions of Japan since 2019 had led to development and organisation of a network that the 7 disability football associations, local disability football teams, the prefectural football association and J-League clubs join in. We will keep driving the movement.

In 2017, we standardized the uniforms of the Japan national disability football teams in the 13 categories organised by the 7 disability football associations, which had previously been uniquely designed each other.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games, in the three “football” categories (Men's U-24, women’s A team and Men's national blind football team), every ”Japan national players” wore a common uniform for the first time.

In March 2021, we have signed partnership agreement with Para Football Foundation which works in promoting and developing disability football in global. Not only the activities so far in collaboration with JFA and the 7 disability football associations in Japan, we will expand our mission in the global arena.

As the latest measure to support the 7 disability football associations, we newly opened the “joint secretariat for disability football” which is a shared office for our member associations and started providing personnel support for them as well.