With the aim of reducing the environmental impact of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ and raising awareness of climate change, FIFA has launched a campaign encouraging successful ticket applicants to offset the carbon emissions resulting from their travel to ...
Sports, especially team sports, brings people together regardless of their nationality, race or religion ,and Grassroots Children Football Program, supported by UEFA and FIFA does exactly this. The project Football Brotherhood, carried out by Istanbul Gedik University’s Sports Sciences Faculty, ...
Footage of a bear performing in front of fans before a Russian league match has been condemned as “shocking and inhumane” by animal welfare groups. A YouTube video showed circus bear ‘Tim’ hand the ball to the referee before the ...
Qatar wants talks with FIFA to discuss the feasibility of increasing the 2022 World Cup to 48 teams after soccer’s governing body expressed interest in enlarging a tournament already having to overcome operational challenges. The Gulf nation took two days to ...
An independent chairperson will lead an eight-member panel that has been tasked by Fifa with fixing the broken governance structures of Football Federation Australia. Fifa finally delivered its terms of reference for the “congress review ...
On March 2nd, FIFA hosted their now-annual Conference for Equality and Inclusion, an event that brings FIFA representatives together ...
Despite promises of reform and mounting losses, FIFA, world soccer’s governing body, paid members of its ruling council nearly $10 million last year. According to three people with direct knowledge of the payments, ...
Ghanaian referee Joseph Lamptey, banned for life by FIFA for match-fixing, has had his appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) turned down. The CAS ruling and their published reasoning mark a significant landmark for FIFA and football’s ...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino and Council of Europe Secretary General Thorbjørn Jagland met today in Strasbourg to discuss how to better promote human rights in sports. The meeting followed an exchange of views between the FIFA President and the Council ...
On the eve of international Human Rights Day (December 10th), a commitment was made today to launch a new independent Centre for Sport and Human Rights in 2018. Announced at the Sporting Chance Forum in Geneva, the planned Centre will be the first ...
