ifa <br><br>the international football arena (ifa) launched nearly a decade ago in zurich, switzerland and held once a year at fifa’s auditorium at the world governing body’s former headquarters, has become the leading and foremost football industry event over the years. <br><br>not only has the ifa attracted some of the most important professionals of football and football business, but it has become a true marketplace for ideas, a venue to make new ties and re-enforce existing relationships, and an event that boasts some of the biggest names in the industry.<br><br>the ifa along with all its partners shares the desire to assist the development of the game at all levels and to ensure knowledge transfer into the emerging areas of world football. <br><br>in co-operation with the asian football confederation (afc) and chinese football association (cfa), sponsored by chelsea fc and audi china, supported by titan media china and by cosdf the first ifa beijing is launched at a time when football is being reshaped substantially in the asian region. together with our partners, it is our desire to become the most exciting and respectable industrial meeting for football professionals on the asian continent.