Geneva (AFP) – Switzerland's top court on Monday rejected ex-FIFA official Julio Rocha's bid to block his extradition to the United States, where he has been charged with a raft of corruption-related offences. Rocha, the former president of the Nicaraguan Football Federation and a FIFA development officer, was among the seven people arrested in a […]

Budapest (AFP) – FIFA president Gianni Infantino said Tuesday he is aiming to name a secretary general within months and already has "a couple" of names in mind. Infantino, who was elected in February to take over leadership of football's scandal-tainted world body, said that his new deputy would not be European. Infantino told reporters […]

US prosecutors on Tuesday set a February 2017 target date for the start of the huge FIFA corruption trial that has ensnared dozens of world soccer's top executives. "The proposed schedule set forth below contemplates that jury selection would commence on February 27, 2017," prosecutor Robert Capers wrote in a letter late Monday to federal […]

Uruguay's Juan Pedro Damiani has resigned from FIFA's ethics committee after the Panama Papers showed his law firm acted as an intermediary for a disgraced FIFA official. "We can confirm that Mr. Damiani resigned from his position as member of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee of FIFA," panel spokesman Marc Tenbuecken told […]

FIFA on Wednesday demanded tens of millions of dollars in damages from the "sordid" officials facing charges in the United States over mass bribery scandals that have rocked world football. In a wide-ranging admission on the scope of soccer corruption, just two weeks after Gianni Infantino replaced Sepp Blatter as its president, football's governing body […]

FIFA is still considering setting up an independent panel to oversee its reform effort, a move requested by world football's top corporate sponsors, the head of FIFA's reform committee Francois Carrard told AFP. Carrard, a Swiss lawyer who helped lead an anti-corruption drive at the International Olympic Committee more than a decade ago, headed the […]

The International Football Association Board (IFAB), which governs the rules of the game, has approved testing of video technology to aid match officials, it was announced on Saturday. Experiments will be carried out over a two-year period starting no later than the 2017/18 season before a final decision is taken on whether to adopt the […]

FIFA members on Friday approved major reforms aiming to end corruption scandals ahead of voting for a new president who faces a mountainous task boosting the image of football's governing body. The measures were adopted by 179 members, while 22 voted against and six abstained at a congress seeking to turn the page on Sepp […]

A former Bahrain international has claimed in a German documentary that FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman is lying about his knowledge of players being tortured in the Middle Eastern state. Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa is the front-runner to replace disgraced Sepp Blatter as president of world football's governing body in Friday's vote in Zurich. […]

A FIFA appeal committee on Wednesday reduced bans against Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini to six years but maintained they were still guilty of ethics breaches. The appeal result was announced as UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino and Asian football leader Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa stepped up their rivalry to take over as […]

This Friday, the members of FIFA will elect a new president to replace Sepp Blatter. Impressively, both ESPN and FOX Sports are planning wall-to-wall coverage regarding the important development in soccer's governing body. Here are all of the details you need: TV • FOX Sports 1 — Live coverage begins at 3am ET / midnight PT on […]

FIFA contender Prince Ali bin al Hussein wants the international sports tribunal to delay the world football leadership election on Friday if transparent voting booths are not used, his lawyers said. The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) said it would rule by Thursday, the eve of the vote, whether to order FIFA to change […]

With FIFA scheduled to vote for a new president to replace disgraced Sepp Blatter on Friday, two-thirds of fans do not trust soccer's governing body, claims anti-corruption group Transparency International. The Berlin-based body on Tuesday announced the results of a new poll of 25,000 fans in 28 countries which shows deep distrust of FIFA. Of […]

FIFA presidential contender Prince Ali bin al Hussein has called on the international sport tribunal to suspend Friday's world football election over the voting arrangements. The Jordanian prince, one of five hopefuls, wants transparent voting booths used at the congress to find a replacement for Sepp Blatter. This has been rejected by FIFA's election commission. […]

Scandal-tainted FIFA is heading for a $100 million-plus deficit for 2015 and rival candidates for the leadership of football's world body have warned of catastrophe if some campaign promises are carried out. FIFA has $1.5 billion in cash in the bank and its riches are a key battle for the five rivals who will take […]