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USA

Top FIFA sponsors demand Sepp Blatter quits immediately

Major football sponsors are demanding the immediate resignation of FIFA president Sepp Blatter. Companies that have long linked their brand names to

03/10/2015

Sport

Warner given life ban from football by FIFA

The notorious football career of Jack Warner is over with FIFA imposing a life ban on the 72 year-old. He was indicted in May in the USA along with

29/09/2015

Switzerland

Platini's role into Fifa investigation 'between witness and accused person'

29/09/2015

Switzerland

Sepp Blatter quizzed by Swiss prosecutors

FIFA chief suspected over deals with Jack Warner and Michel Platini.

25/09/2015

Sport

Chelsea striker Diego Costa banned for three matches

Diego Costa will have to sit out Chelsea’s next three matches after a Football Association charge of violent conduct was upheld. The player had

22/09/2015

Sport

Fifa's Valcke suspended over alleged World Cup ticket scam

The number two man at Fifa Jérôme Valcke has been suspended as general secretary pending investigations related to a 2014 World Cup ticket scam. The

18/09/2015

World News

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke is suspended

FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke, has been suspended. In a statement, soccer’s world governing body said it had “been made aware of a series of

17/09/2015

Switzerland

U.S. anticipates further criminal charges in soccer corruption probe

14/09/2015

Sport

Blatter accused of selling World Cup TV rights at cut price to Warner

Switzerland’s Sepp Blatter reportedly sold off television rights for the 2010 and 2014 World Cups to former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner at a

12/09/2015

Sport

Dirt pitches and abandoned academies - FIFA's Pakistan project scores own goal

A dirt pitch on a windswept plot by the Arabian Sea near Karachi, Pakistan. It’s not quite up to FIFA standards and yet this centre is among the

08/09/2015

Sport

AFC accused of compromising FIFA presidential elections

The race to replace Sepp Blatter as President of world football’s governing body FIFA is hotting up. Presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon of South

03/09/2015

Sport

FIFA reform task force meet for first time

Football’s scandal-hit world governing body FIFA convened the first meeting of a new reform committee on Wednesday in Berne. UEFA General Secretary

02/09/2015

Sport

FIFA President Blatter relinquishes IOC membership

03/08/2015

Sport

Former FIFA Vice President Chung to run for world football's top job

Former Fifa vice president Chung Mong-Joon is to stand for the presidency of football’s world governing body. The 63-year-old billionaire is one of

30/07/2015

Sport

Platini to stand for FIFA presidency

Michel Platini has announced he will stand for the Presidency of football’s world governing body FIFA. The current UEFA chief confirmed on Wednesday

29/07/2015

Switzerland

UEFA chief Michel Platini to stand for FIFA presidency

Former France star Michel Platini has thrown his hat into the ring to be president of world governing body FIFA. Platini, 60, put his name forward

29/07/2015

World

Putin: Sepp Blatter deserves a Nobel prize

27/07/2015

Sport

US request extradition for disgraced former Fifa exec Leoz

Nicolas Leoz has become the latest disgraced former fifa official on the US department’s extradition hit list. Paraguay has officially received an

24/07/2015

Sport

Non-European for taskforce chair - UN special adviser on sport

The United Nations’ special adviser on sport Wilfried Lemke says a European should not be considered for Chairperson of Fifa’s new reform task force

22/07/2015

Switzerland

FIFA chief Blatter showered in fake bank-notes by prankster

Sepp Blatter’s press conference to announce FIFA reforms got off to an embarrassing start when he was showered in fake bank notes by British

20/07/2015