A selected group of FIFA Legends that together holds a coveted collection of trophies and football awards will be coming to Doha this week to take part in the Generation Amazing Youth Festival and follow the 2019 FIFA Club World Cup in Qatar presented by Alibaba Cloud. Argentinian coach Santiago …
Read More »
FIFA has today filed claims in the relevant Swiss courts against former FIFA President Joseph Blatter and former FIFA Vice-President Michel Platini, seeking restitution of the CHF 2 million unduly paid to Mr Platini back in February 2011. This follows the unanimous resolution recently adopted by the FIFA Governance Committee …
Read More »
The Brussels Court of Appeal has dismissed an appeal by Doyen Sports Investments and Belgian club FC Seraing seeking the illegality of FIFA’s Third Party Ownership (TPO) and Third Party Influence (TPI) rules. FIFA’s TPO and TPI rules are set out in article 18bis and 18ter of the Regulations on the …
Read More »
FIFA President Gianni Infantino and European Parliament (EP) President David Sassoli have agreed to organising a joint event next year with the objective to address critical social issues via football following a fruitful meeting held today in Brussels. “We started a path at FIFA some years ago to invest football …
Read More »
A total of 3,425 professional clubs around the world, top-tier competitions in 205 countries and 91% of member associations with a licensing system in place (which represents an increase of 13 percentage points since the last such survey): these are some of the standout stats from FIFA’s Professional Football Report …
Read More »
The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has issued its decision in the arbitration procedure between Chelsea Football Club Ltd (CFC) and the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA). The FIFA Appeal Committee decision dated April 11, 2019, in which Chelsea FC was declared liable for violations of the FIFA …
Read More »
FIFA’s Intermediaries in International Transfers 2019 report is now available. The report offers a summary of the involvement of intermediaries in international transfers completed in FIFA’s International Transfer Matching System (ITMS) during 2019. Key highlights: Of the more than 17,000 transfers completed so far in 2019, 3,557 involved at least …
Read More »
The initiative, which was launched in 2019 as part of FIFA’s drive towards greater transparency is designed to share the most important regulatory changes and decisions of the last year with representatives of national associations, leagues, clubs and players’ unions, as well as professionals in the legal field. From a …
Read More »
With the first two major events of the season, the start of the revamped qualifying tournament for the FIFA eClub World Cup 2020 as well as national qualifying events for the FIFA eNations Cup 2020 getting underway in Norway, November was a busy and exciting month for FIFA eSports. With …
Read More »
The FIFA and LOC delegation visited the DY Patil Stadium in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, December 1 to have a look at developments for next year’s FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. Tournament Director of the LOC Roma Khanna was happy with the preparations at Navi Mumbai and said, “After a …
Read More »
Arunava about Football A look at football & the world through my eyes!