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I would like to take the opportunity in this article to remind people that, in order to better
20 World Cup for Clubs 2025 ensure compliance with FIAP regulations by the participating clubs, improving the protection of
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this significant photographic contest against the forms of file manipulation, including of course
By Michele Macinai EFIAP/g, ESFIAP the creation of images by artificial intelligence, which is strictly prohibited, Section 3 of the
FIAP Director of the World Cup for Clubs Service Regulations of FIAP World Cup for Clubs (DOC. 042/2024) states the following:

“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
I had the honour and pleasure of organising the 20 FIAP World case he/she should also request the images taken immediately before and after the submitted
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image.
FIAP Events 12 to 14 . The judges for this competition were: Mr. Pandula they are requested for possible inspection, without expiration, prescription or limitation of FIAP FIAP Events
Cup for Clubs, the judging for which was done online, from December
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This person must retain all these images (RAW + JPG series), without any exception, in case
BANDARA EFIAP/b (Sri Lanka), Mr. István KEREKES EFIAP/d3, FIAP
Best of the Best 2023, 2024 (Hungary), Mr. Francis NICOLL EFIAP/d3,
actions.
MFIAP, Hon EFIAP (Belgium), Ms. Angela POGGIONI EFIAP/p (USA), Mr.
These files can be requested by Director of FIAP World Cup for Clubs or by the FIAP Ethical
Yousuf TUSHAR EFIAP, MFIAP, FIAP L.O. of Bangladesh (Bangladesh).
the person representing the club must send it immediately within 10 days of their request. If the
Mr. Tim PILE EFIAP/p, MFIAP (United Kingdom). Their job as judges
file is not sent and received within the deadline, the submitted image will be disqualified.”
Michele Macinai The alternate judges were Mr. Leif ALVEEN EFIAP/d2 (Denmark) and Service from the person representing the club at any time. In case one (or more) file is requested,
was accomplished with great professionalism and seriousness. I take
the opportunity, in this article, to publicly thank them for their very important and fundamental
contribution to the success of the 2025 FIAP World Cup for Clubs. Furthermore, I would also like to underline that, after the online meeting for the assignment
of prizes by the judges, which was held on December 14, 2025, and before the final confirmation
and publication of the results of the 20 FIAP World Cup for Clubs, the original camera files referred
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to in section 3 of the regulations were requested and checked. This was done to verify compliance
with the current regulations, for the protection of all participating clubs.
The winner of the World Cup, in the 20 FIAP World Cup for Clubs 2025, was Rolls Royce
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Derby Photographic Society (United Kingdom) and the Winner of the Maurice Dorikens Trophy, for
having achieved the best results in the past three consecutive FIAP World Cups (from 2023-2025),
was Catchlight Camera Club (United Kingdom). In the two tables below, you can see the list of
clubs that excelled to achieve a “Top 10” ranking in the competition, and the list of authors who
won the ten individual awards.

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TOP 10 CLUBS

# Award Club Points

1 FIAP World Cup for Clubs Rolls Royce Derby Photographic United Kingdom 619
Society
2 FIAP Gold Medal for Club Catchlight Camera Club United Kingdom 608
3 FIAP Silver Medal for Club Drogheda Ireland 606
4 FIAP Bronze Medal for Club G.F. Il Cupolone EFI -CAFIAP Italy 604
Photo of the judging: Photo taken at the online judging session. Top row L-R is Riccardo Busi FIAP President,
Michele Macinai (Director of the FIAP World Cup for Clubs), Yousuf Tushar (Judge). 5 Honourable Mention 1 for Club Youth Photographic Society India 602
Middle row L-R is Roser Batalla (IT Support from the Fotogenius IT team), Pandula Bandara (Judge)
and Istvan Kerekes (Judge). Bottom row L-R is Angela Poggioni (Judge) and Leif Alveen 6 Honourable Mention 2 for Club Chhayapath Calcutta India 595
7 Honourable Mention 3 for Club Otofokus Türkiye 594
This year’s edition was again a great success in terms of participation. In fact, 206 clubs, from
44 countries in the world, participated, with a total of 4,085 images entered in the photographic 8 Honourable Mention 4 for Club New World Russia 593
competition. 9 Honourable Mention 5 for Club Attalos Photography Club Türkiye 592

10 Honourable Mention 6 for Club Dundalk Photographic Society Ireland 591

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