The IFAA is an archery association that was founded 1970 when a group of field archers from the USA, Sweden, England, Scotland, Wales and Canada agreed on a set of basic rules by which Field Archery tournaments would be run. We now represent over 30 000 field archers in over 30 member countries from all continents.
Although the IFAA is mainly an association for the amateur archer, new rules are now in place to accept and to provide competitions for professional archers without infringing the status of our amateur archers.
Our World and Regional events allow for international archery competition and we encourage the participation of all our affiliated archers at these events, irrespective of how well they can shoot. Amateur and Professional archers, although competing in the same event, shoot in different divisions.
Today most of our tournaments have 400 or more participants and some of these events have in excess of 800 participants.

Our game is either marked “Field” archery events, in which we shoot at paper target faces over known distances or unmarked “Bowhunter” events, in which case we shoot at either paper faces or 3D targets over unknown distances, all on a wide variety of terrain.
Member countries of the IFAA host the World Field Archery Championships in the even years and the World Bowhunter Championships, as well as our Indoor Archery Championships are held in the intervening years.  In addition, the IFAA sanctions the annual championships of their five regions.
The rules of our events are well defined but have been kept as simple as possible. Your fellow archers administer these rules out on the courses, rather than judges, marshals or other officials. This format has been shown to be very successful over the years and is appreciated by most of our archers.