21st FIAP World Cup for Clubs Open for Entry

21st FIAP WORLD CUP FOR CLUBS is open to all SPF Clubs to enter Closing date: 29th of December 2026.

NO ENTRY FEE PAYABLE - Judging 15th to 17th of January 2027: on-line judging. - The Award Ceremony will take place in 2027, in place and date to be defined

On-line registration and upload is via WEB: (click here)

1. Limit of 2 works per author

2. No more than one entrant, in any club entry, may be a resident of a country that is foreign to that club. However, the foreign author must be a “resident member of the club”, which means that the foreign author must also be a member of the club participating in the FIAP World Cup for Clubs

3. Each author can enter for one club only, it is forbidden for an author to participate in more than one club

4.The authors of photos accepted in the FIAP World Cup for Clubs can count these acceptances for Individual FIAP distinctions

5.The person representing the club (namely the one that will be in charge of submitting the files that will participate in the competition) is responsible for collecting the submitted files, which must contain the original EXIF data. This person must also collect at the same time from the authors all the RAW files of the submitted images or the original unmodified jpg files. In the latter case he/she should also request the images taken immediately before and after the submitted image. Please note that if a submitted image is a composite, the person representing the club and responsible for submitting the entry must retain and be able to provide, upon request, the original RAW or JPEG files of all the individual images used to create the composite. This person must retain all these images (RAW + JPG series), without any exception, in case they are requested for possible inspection, without expiration, prescription or limitation of FIAP actions. These files can be requested by Director of FIAP World Cup for Clubs or by the FIAP Ethical Service from the person representing the club at any time. In case one (or more) file is requested, the person representing the club must send it immediately within 10 days of their request. If the file is not sent and received within the deadline, the submitted image will be disqualified (namely 0 points will be assigned to that image). Please note that, if the aforementioned files relating to one or more images entered in the competition are requested, they must be provided within 10 days by the person representing the club and responsible for submitting the entry. If the requested files are not received by FIAP within this period, or if, despite having been received, the documentation provided is, at the sole discretion of FIAP, considered insufficient or incomplete to demonstrate compliance with the current Regulations, no further requests will be made to the person representing the club. The image(s) concerned will be disqualified (0 points will be assigned to each such image), without any further notice to the club representative. See also the Regulation of FIAP World Cup for Clubs (DOC 051/2026)

6. All the parts of the image have to be photographed by the author who is holding the copyright of all works submitted. Offenders will be sanctioned for life! Regarding artificial intelligence, participants must comply with the provisions of the document 050/2025 “Artificial intelligence (AI) in FIAP salons” (see also Art. 3 of DOC 051/2026)

Files should be in JPG, RGB, 300 dpi; Image size: 2400 pixels minimum and 3500 pixel maximum for the largest side in order to be printed for the exhibition. Maximum file size 6 MB. The image files must be named using the following format: Title of the Work – Author’s First Name - Author’s Last Name – Country of Residence.

See also the Regulation of FIAP World Cup for Clubs (DOC 051/2026) - This is available with full details (click here)