I COPPA DEL PRESIDENTE

I Coppa del Presidente: Saturday, December 5 and Sunday, December 6, 2026, Accademia Nazionale “Bruno Grandi”, Rome, Italy. MMA, MMA Light and MMA Submission competition, men and women, for the Youth (from age 10), Junior and Senior age groups. The Coppa del Presidente divisions (former “Assoluto”) award 50% of the FederKombat ranking points that count toward the qualification and selection of athletes for the Italian MMA National Team; all other divisions compete in the MMA Italian Open 2026. Registration is open on Smoothcomp through Sunday, November 29, 2026.

1. Eligibility

Participation is open to all FEDERKOMBAT athletes holding a valid competitive membership in the MMA and/or Shoot Boxe / Kick Jitsu sector for the current sports season and in possession of the medical certifications required by law.

Foreign athletes residing in Italy, holding an identity card issued by their Italian municipality of residence, may register regularly.

2. Program

Saturday, December 5 and Sunday, December 6, 2026 — Accademia Nazionale “Bruno Grandi”, Via Giacomo Brogi 82, Rome, Italy.

Weigh-in and start times for each division will be published on this page after registration closes.

Divisions

3. Disciplines

The event includes two separate disciplines, with the same age groups and the same weight classes but different rule sets:

• MMA — full rule set for the athlete’s division
• MMA SUBMISSION — rule set with no strikes

Each athlete may register in one discipline only: either MMA or MMA Submission. Registering in both is not possible.

Each athlete may register in their own belt division or in a higher belt division. MMA Light is open to all belts.

Belt divisions in MMA Submission: Youth D, C and B: White-Yellow / Orange-Green-Blue-Brown · Youth A: White-Yellow / Orange-Green-Blue-Brown-Black · Junior and Senior: B.G.A.V. / Blue / Purple-Brown-Black.

Coppa del Presidente and MMA Italian Open 2026

The event consists of two tournaments:

• Coppa del Presidente — the former “Assoluto” divisions of each age group: Senior and Junior Purple-Brown-Black belts, Youth A Orange-Green-Blue-Brown-Black belts, Youth B, C and D Orange-Green-Blue-Brown belts. It awards 50% of the FederKombat national ranking points used for national team selection.
• MMA Italian Open 2026 — all other divisions: White-Yellow belts (Youth), B.G.A.V. and Blue belts (Senior and Junior), MMA Light and all MMA Submission divisions. No ranking points are awarded.

Payment is made exclusively through the Smoothcomp platform. Payments open on November 2, 2026: a registration is valid only once paid, and payment must be completed before registration closes. The registration fee is non-refundable.

4. Registration deadlines

Registration may close early once the maximum number of participants is reached.

Instructions for changing weight class or cancelling: https://support.smoothcomp.com/article/89-how-to-change-weightclass-or-cancel

Weigh your athletes correctly before registering them: an error in the weight class compromises the preparation of the brackets.

Registration changes

Until Monday, November 30, 2026, athletes may move on their own on Smoothcomp (instructions at the link above):

• to another weight class;
• to a higher belt division;
• if under 18: to a higher age group, but not to the adult age groups (Junior and Senior);
• if Junior: to the Senior age group.

Until Monday, November 30, 2026, athletes who are alone in their division, or who are in a division where all athletes belong to the same team, may ask to be moved as described above by sending an e-mail to spartanacademyasd@gmail.com. Athletes who have asked to be moved, and their coaches, must check on Smoothcomp that the move has been made correctly.

Athletes who are alone in their division may choose not to move and to come to the venue to be awarded the gold medal after passing the weigh-in.

The registration fee is non-refundable. A registration can be cancelled on Smoothcomp only if the fee has not yet been paid, and no later than Sunday, November 29, 2026, 11:59 PM (Italy time). Once paid, the registration is final and can be neither cancelled nor refunded.

5. Weight classes

The weigh-in takes place on the day of the competition. Athletes weigh in wearing their competition rashguard and shorts. No weight allowance is given.

Youth D — ages 10-11 (male and female)

-27 kg · -30 kg · -34 kg · -37 kg · -40 kg · -44 kg · -48 kg · -52 kg · -57 kg · +57 kg

Youth C — ages 12-13 (male and female)

-31 kg · -34 kg · -37 kg · -40 kg · -44 kg · -48 kg · -52 kg · -57 kg · +57 kg

Youth B — ages 14-15 (male and female)

-40 kg · -44 kg · -48 kg · -52 kg · -57 kg · -62 kg · -67 kg · -72 kg · +72 kg

Youth A — ages 16-17

Junior and Senior

6. Technical rules

The FederKombat MMA Rulebook (July 2026) applies, with the technical restrictions set for each age group and belt division (art. 12 for MMA and MMA Light, art. 13 for MMA Submission).

Key points

• Youth D, C and B (MMA Light): punches and kicks to the body only, with controlled contact; all ground strikes are forbidden.
• Youth A and Junior/Senior B.G.A.V. belts: standing, punches and kicks to the body; on the ground, punches to the body only; no strikes to the head. In Youth A MMA Light, strikes are controlled contact.
• Junior/Senior Blue and Purple-Brown-Black belts and MMA Light: standing, punches and kicks to the head and body, knees to the body; on the ground, punches to the head and body, knees and kicks to the body. In MMA Light, strikes are controlled contact.
• Forbidden in all divisions: elbows, forearm strikes, headbutts, knees to the head, linear kicks to the knee; on the ground, stomp kicks and kicks to the head.
• Grappling: forbidden techniques (e.g. slams, heel hooks, wrist locks, guillotines, locks and cranks on the neck or spine) vary by division: see the official FederKombat tables.
• MMA bout duration (tournament format): Junior/Senior Purple-Brown-Black belts 2 rounds of 3 minutes · Youth A 2 rounds of 2 minutes · Junior/Senior B.G.A.V. and Blue belts and MMA Light one 4-minute round · Youth B one 4-minute round · Youth C and D one 3-minute round. One-minute rest between rounds; for Purple-Brown-Black belts and Youth A, an extra round is fought in case of a draw.
• MMA Submission bout duration: Junior and Senior one 5-minute round · Youth A and B 4 minutes · Youth C and D 3 minutes; in case of a draw, a 1-minute extra round.

Official tables of technical restrictions: FederKombat MMA Rulebook – July 2026, art. 12 (MMA and MMA Light) and art. 13 (MMA Submission).

The full rulebook and tables are published in the MMA Documents section of the federation website: https://www.federkombat.it

7. Protective gear and uniform

All protective gear worn in competition must be of brands and models approved by FEDERKOMBAT. The updated list of approved brands is published at: https://www.federkombat.it/home/media-fikbms/brand-autorizzati.html

Athletes must come to their bout already wearing their protective gear.

Protective gear required by the rules:

• 6-8 oz amateur MMA gloves, open hand, with velcro wrist closure
• Sock-style shin guards with front padding
• Headguard with protective bar: Blue and Purple belts (headguards without bar, with plexiglass visor or metal grille are forbidden)
• Open headguard: MMA Light
• Mouthguard
• Groin guard (mandatory for men, optional for women)

Rashguard: the athlete at the top of the bracket wears a predominantly red rashguard, the one at the bottom a predominantly blue one (rashguards with both red and blue are forbidden). Shorts of the same color as the rashguard, or black, white or grey.

8. Digital Federkombat membership card

The digital card is obtained through the federal app FEDERKapp, free for Android and iOS.

1. Download FEDERKapp from Google Play or the App Store.
2. Go to the LOGIN / My card section using your personal e-mail and your personal card code.
3. The card code must be requested from your sports club, which issues it to each member.
4. Upload a head-and-shoulders photo of yourself, with no other images alongside.

Without a viewable digital card, access to the weigh-in is not allowed.

9. Quick summary

Athletes registered in MMA Submission present the same documents required for competitions without strikes to the head. For MMA Submission, the B1 certificate may also refer to a grappling sport (Sambo, Judo, Jiu-Jitsu, Grappling, Wrestling).

10. Pre-competition medical check

It must be done, before the weigh-in, only by adult athletes fighting full contact with strikes to the head: JUNIOR and SENIOR Blue and Purple-Brown-Black belts.

At the pre-competition medical check, athletes must:

1. Show the original MEDICAL CERTIFICATE B5 of fitness for competitive activity in MMA / Mixed Martial Arts or in other FEDERKOMBAT full-contact sports (Shoot Boxe, K1, full-contact Kickboxing, etc.).
2. Purple-Brown-Black belts only: show blood tests for HIV, hepatitis B (HBsAg) and hepatitis C (HCV), taken no more than 6 months before the competition.
3. Attachment A — Pre-competition declaration for athletes competing in full-contact disciplines (men and women)
4. Women only: Pre-competition declaration (Ministerial Decree 2/08/05) — women’s section
5. Athletes with orthodontic braces only: Form Q — Orthodontic braces
6. Adult women only: hand in the original negative laboratory pregnancy test (urine or blood — pharmacy tests are not accepted), taken no more than 14 days before the competition.

11. Weigh-in

All athletes must:

1. Show a valid identity document. Photos of the document, printed or on a phone, are not accepted.
2. Show the digital Federkombat card through FEDERKapp (see section 8).

Only athletes fighting without strikes to the head (all Youth classes, B.G.A.V. belts, MMA Light and MMA Submission) must also:

1. Show the original MEDICAL CERTIFICATE B1 of fitness for competitive activity in one of these disciplines: light-contact MMA / Mixed Martial Arts, Kick Jitsu, light-contact Kickboxing.
2. Hand in, completed and signed (see section 12): MMA Attachment 1 — Medical history declaration; women only: MMA Attachment 2 — Declaration.
3. Women over 16 fighting full contact to the body only: hand in the original negative laboratory pregnancy test (urine or blood — pharmacy tests are not accepted), taken no more than 14 days before the competition.

After the weigh-in

• Athletes weigh in wearing their competition rashguard and shorts.
• Athletes who are alone in their division must go immediately to the podium area and ask the person in charge to be awarded.
• Athletes who do not show up for the weigh-in are removed from the brackets.
• After the weigh-in, every athlete must check that a green dot appears next to their name on Smoothcomp. With a red dot it is not possible to compete: in that case, go back to the weigh-in immediately and ask for a check.

12. Forms to download

All forms are on the page of the Federal National Medical Commission: https://www.federkombat.it/documenti-fikbms/federazione/commissione-medica-nazionale-federale.html

Important: medical certificates must be shown in original. Without complete documentation, the athlete is not admitted to the competition.

13. Coaches and team staff

Coaches and their assistants must show their Coach Pass, without which access to the competition area is not allowed. No exceptions: the Meeting Commissioner enforces the rule, with immediate removal from the competition area in case of non-compliance.

14. Team ranking

At the end of the competition a team ranking will be drawn up: the top 3 teams will be awarded. Points are assigned to the Academy/Team indicated by the athlete on Smoothcomp.

Points counting towards the ranking:

• Gold: 10 points
• Silver: 8 points
• Bronze: 5 points
• Each win by submission or KO: 3 points
• Each bout won: 1 point

Points for bouts won and for wins by submission or KO are added to the placement points.

Athletes who are alone in their division still earn points for the final team ranking: a gold medal won alone in the division is worth 5 points.

15. Final notes

• The organization declines all responsibility for any injury to persons or damage to property before, during and after the event, and reserves the right to change the program and competition times if it deems it necessary.
• For anything not covered here, FEDERKOMBAT rules and regulations apply.