WUFO GOVERNANCE ARCHITECTURE

JOINT CONGRESS

241 MEN’S BRANCH VOTES + 241 WOMEN’S BRANCH VOTES = 482 IDENTIFIABLE VOTES

WUFO

FOOTBALL FOR A MORE INCLUSIVE WORLD

THE TWO BRANCH CONGRESSES DECIDING A COMMON WUFO MATTER

TWO CONGRESSES SIT TOGETHER. NEITHER DISAPPEARS.

The Men’s Congress and Women’s Congress act together when a matter belongs to WUFO as a whole. The Joint Congress is their combined sitting—not a third permanent Congress.

COMMON AUTHORITY WITHOUT MERGER · EQUAL BRANCH WEIGHT WITHOUT CROSS-BRANCH SPORTING CONTROL

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482FULL COMBINED VOTING MEMBERSHIP

WHAT MAKES A MATTER JOINT

COMMON WUFO MATTERS BELONG TO THE COMMON INSTITUTION

A matter cannot be labelled common merely to let one Branch interfere in the sporting affairs of the other.

ONE COMBINED PROCEEDING

Both Branch Congresses deliberate and vote within the same Joint Congress proceeding.

TWO IDENTIFIABLE BRANCH VOTES

Each Member Association participates through its reserved Men’s Congress seat and its separate reserved Women’s Congress seat.

NO ORDINARY BRANCH VETO

An ordinary Common WUFO Matter has no separate Branch majority or Branch veto unless the Statutes expressly provide otherwise.

SPECIAL RULES PREVAIL

A special decision-making body or threshold established elsewhere in the Statutes prevails over the general Joint Congress rule.

FIXED FULL-MEMBERSHIP THRESHOLDS

ATTENDANCE NEVER LOWERS THE NUMBER OF YES VOTES REQUIRED

The denominator remains the complete 482-vote membership.

2903/5ORDINARY COMMON WUFO MATTER
3864/5PROTECTED JOINT CONGRESS MATTER
482100%VOLUNTARY DISSOLUTION WHEN ALL 482 RIGHTS EXIST

PUBLIC AND MANDATED DECISION-MAKING

A COMMON DECISION REMAINS TRACEABLE TO EVERY MEMBER ASSOCIATION

Meeting together does not erase seat ownership, the General Assembly mandate or the public voting record.

PUBLIC VOTES

  • Each voting seat is nominal, recorded and public.
  • The result is not published merely as a final total.

NO EXECUTIVE SUBSTITUTE

  • No agreement among Presidents, Councils or executive officers replaces a required Joint Congress vote.
  • Authority to negotiate is not authority to approve a materially different proposal.

ONE MEMBER ASSOCIATION HOLDS ONE IDENTIFIABLE VOTE IN EACH BRANCH—TWO BRANCH VOTES WHEN THE TWO CONGRESSES SIT TOGETHER.

DIRECT LEGAL REFERENCES

← Return to the Congress overview
STA / ART-13 · Protected Branches and Common WUFO Matters ↗STA / ART-16 · Joint Congress and fixed thresholds ↗STA / ART-30 · Separate Branch seats remain identifiable ↗STA / ART-35 · Nominal, recorded and public voting ↗REG-2 / RULE-3 · Joint Congress procedure ↗

Each link opens the governing provision in the English legal and regulatory Corpus.

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