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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Technical Study Group (TSG) of the 2019 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Paraguay has determined the shortlist of candidates for the adidas Golden Ball. The following 10 players can win the coveted trophy and become the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the competition: Ozu Moreira (Japan) Gabriele Gori …
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Ahmedabad became the fourth venue to be inspected by a FIFA and LOC delegation in the ongoing inspection for 2020 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup – India. After the inspection, Oliver Vogt, Project Lead of 2020 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup – India said, “This is a beautiful stadium and …
Read More »A FIFA delegation alongside members of the Local Organising Committee inspected the Kalinga Stadium to ascertain the readiness of Bhubaneswar to host the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2020. Following the visit, the delegation expressed their satisfaction with the work which has been put in at the venue. FIFA …
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