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FIFA is the international governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 and now comprises 211 national associations from around the world. FIFA outlines objectives of growing the sport internationally and advocating for integrity and fair play. It is responsible for organizing major international tournaments like the World Cup. However, FIFA leadership has been embroiled in corruption scandals related to the awarding of World Cup hosting rights and bribery.

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FIFA

FIFA is the international governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal. It was founded in 1904 and now comprises 211 national associations from around the world. FIFA outlines objectives of growing the sport internationally and advocating for integrity and fair play. It is responsible for organizing major international tournaments like the World Cup. However, FIFA leadership has been embroiled in corruption scandals related to the awarding of World Cup hosting rights and bribery.

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FIFA

The Fédération internationale de football association (French for 'International


Association Football Federation';[3] abbreviated as FIFA and pronounced in
English as /ˈfiːfə/) is the international governing body of association football, beach
soccer, and futsal. It was founded in 1904[4] to oversee international competition
among the national associations of Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany,
the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich,
Switzerland, its membership now comprises 211 national associations. These
national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional
confederations into which the world is divided: CAF (Africa), AFC (Asia and
Australia), UEFA (Europe), CONCACAF (North & Central America and the
Caribbean), OFC (Oceania) and CONMEBOL (South America).
FIFA outlines a number of objectives in the organizational Statutes, including
growing association football internationally, providing efforts to ensure it is accessible
to everyone, and advocating for integrity and fair play.[5] It is responsible for the
organization and promotion of association football's major international tournaments,
notably the World Cup which commenced in 1930, and the Women's World
Cup which commenced in 1991. Although FIFA does not solely set the laws of the
game, that being the responsibility of the International Football Association Board of
which FIFA is a member, it applies and enforces the rules across all FIFA
competitions.[6] All FIFA tournaments generate revenue from sponsorships; in 2022,
FIFA had revenues of over US $5.8 billion, ending the 2019–2022 cycle with a net
positive of US$1.2 billion, and had cash reserves of over US$3.9 billion.[7]
Reports by investigative journalists have linked FIFA leadership with corruption,
bribery, and vote-rigging related to the election of FIFA president Sepp Blatter and
the organization's decision to award the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and
Qatar, respectively. These allegations led to the indictments of nine high-ranking
FIFA officials and five corporate executives by the U.S. Department of Justice on
charges including racketeering, wire fraud, and money laundering. On 27 May 2015,
several of these officials were arrested by Swiss authorities, who were launching a
simultaneous but separate criminal investigation into how the organization awarded
the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. Those among these officials who were also indicted
in the U.S. are expected to be extradited to face charges there as well.[8][9][10]
Many officials were suspended by FIFA's ethics committee including Sepp
Blatter[11] and Michel Platini.[12] In early 2017, reports became public about FIFA
president Gianni Infantino attempting to prevent the re-elections[13] of both chairmen
of the ethics committee, Cornel Borbély and Hans-Joachim Eckert, during the FIFA
congress in May 2017.[14][15] On 9 May 2017, following Infantino's proposal,[16] FIFA
Council decided not to renew the mandates of Borbély and Eckert.[16] Together with
the chairmen, 11 of 13 committee members were removed. FIFA has been
suspected of corruption regarding the Qatar FIFA World Cup.[17]

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