It organizes tournaments for the sport, and is in charge of Paralympic Games inclusion and participation.

The IFCPF is a World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) signatory, and international footballers may be subject to out-of-competition doping controls.

In January 2015, governance of the sport was taken over by the newly created International Federation of Cerebral Palsy Football.

[11] They were also involved in the request to keep cerebral palsy football on the program for the 2020 Summer Paralympics.

[13] In 2016, after getting an endorsement by the World AntiDoping Agency (WADA), the IFCPF Anti-Doping Code was formally amended to allow for out of competition testing.

These countries included Netherlands, Japan, Russia, Iran, Argentina, Ireland, Ukraine, England, and Brazil.

Rankings are based on tournament placement, with a factoring done to give additional weight to the Paralympic Games and IFCPF World Championships.