Fifa

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Fifa president Gianni Infantino has said that Argentina has a “very good chance” of replacing Indonesia as the host of the upcoming U20 World Cup, with the South American country the only nation to hav…
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Fifa has stripped the Football Association of Indonesia (PSSI) of its hosting rights to the 2023 Under-20 World Cup three days after the group draw was postponed amid local opposition to Israel’s participation i…
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Finance & Law

Football's world governing body Fifa and the European Club Association (ECA) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which proposes the creation of a joint venture to pursue the commercialisation…
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Events

The German Football Association (DFB), Dutch Football Association (KNVB) and Belgian Football Association (RBFA) have become the first applicants to formally express their interest in staging the 2027…
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Fifa, football’s global governing body, has launched the bidding process for the 2027 Women’s World Cup with the host, or hosts, set to be announced in May 2024.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has confirmed that Visit Saudi, Saudi Arabia’s tourism authority, will not be sponsoring this year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand following a backlash from …
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Governance

Gianni Infantino has been elected unopposed for a second full term as president of world governing body Fifa at the organisation's 73rd annual Congress, held in Kigali, Rwanda
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Morocco has officially joined Spain and Portugal’s joint bid to host the 2030 edition of the Fifa men's World Cup.
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Events

World governing body Fifa has scrapped its proposed three-team group stage for the expanded 48-team men's World Cup in 2026 and will now organise an opening round with 12 groups of four in a tournament…
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Media

Hernan Lopez, the former chief executive at Fox International Channels, has been convicted of participating in a scheme to pay bribes to South American football officials, while the Full Play agency has…
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Finance & Law

Soccer promoter Relevent Sports' lawsuit against Fifa and the United States Soccer Federation (USSF) can go to trial after an appeals court reversed a lower-court's decision to throw out the suit
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Fifa is said to be looking at dropping Visit Saudi as a sponsor for the upcoming Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand after world football's governing body received a backlash over the proposed…
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Stadia

Fifa president Gianni Infantino is reported to have held talks with French President Emmanuel Macron over a potential deal that would see football’s global governing body buy the Stade de France.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Fifa has signed up Colombian logistics company Inter Rapidísimo as an ‘Official Supporter’ of the Women's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand later this year.
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Media

Fifa generated broadcast income of $2.96bn (€2.77bn) in 2022, fuelled by media rights deals for the World Cup in Qatar and reflective of just over half of the governing body’s total revenue for the year.
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Events

World governing body Fifa is to stage a major competition in Saudi Arabia for the first time after the Middle Eastern state was selected as the host of the 2023 Fifa Club World Cup, which is scheduled…
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Events

Argentina, Uruguay, Chile and Paraguay have officially launched their bid to host the 2030 Fifa World Cup, 100 years after the first-ever tournament was held in South America, and hope to add Bolivia to…
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Media

Fifa has opted to retain rights to stream the 2022 Fifa Club World Cup free of charge in over 50 territories on its new OTT platform