A joint statement by FIFA, AFC, UEFA, the Bundesliga, LaLiga, the Premier League and Lega Serie A regarding the activities of beoutQ in Saudi Arabia: We, the rights holders of various football competitions, collectively condemn in the strongest possible terms the ongoing theft of our intellectual property by the pirate …
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FIFA has made some important updates to its Code of Ethics to increase the efficiency of the independent Ethics Committee, to protect the safety and wellbeing of individuals involved in football, and to ensure greater transparency of ethics proceedings. The amendments to the FIFA Code of Ethics (FCE) build on …
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Indian Football team to finally play a game in Kolkata and Guwahati! About time right? Also, FIFA has written to AIFF at last, what’s next?!
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The All India Football Federation general secretary Kushal Das yesterday sat down with the media to talk about the situation in Indian club football. The main question is what is in the FIFA-AFC report and Kushal Das said, “There are many things in the AFC-FIFA roadmap which cannot be implemented …
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On Friday, July 26, 2019, six other I-League Clubs wrote to general secretary Kushal Das and All India Football Federation asking to share the report which was collectively prepared by AFC and FIFA to help AIFF on the potential roadmap for Indian Football which dates back to 2018. This came …
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The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Abu Bakarr Kabba, a former football official affiliated to the Sierra Leone Football Association, guilty of having accepted and received bribes in relation to the manipulation of international matches, in violation of the FIFA Code of Ethics. The formal ethics …
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This year’s FIFA Club World Cup will kick off on December 11, with the champions being crowned on December 21 in Doha, Qatar. The dates of the tournament taking place in Qatar were confirmed on July 25 by the Bureau of the FIFA Council. In its current format featuring seven …
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The FIFA Regulations on the Status and Transfer of Players (“RSTP”) have played a key role in the training and development of players as well as the good functioning of football competitions since 2001. The original objectives and principles of the transfer rules remain sound: the protection of contractual stability; …
Read More »There are some media reports of a communication between FIFA and AIFF regarding the issues of I-League and potentially a unified Indian Football League where a report of a consultation paper of FIFA and AFC in 2018 is being mentioned. In the recent days, the AIFF president Praful Patel in …
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The world governing body FIFA has send an official letter to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) and the I-League following media reports and communication from six of the I-League clubs. FIFA in the letter has sought an update from the AIFF to the degree of implementation of the joint …
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