FIFA and World Athletics review transgender rules after FINA decision
Several global sporting organizations are evaluating their current trans athlete policies following a move by swimming's governing body to restrict their participation in women's events.
FIFA tells North America to prepare for blockbuster World Cup in 2026
FIFA President Gianni Infantino said 2026 would eclipse the 1994 World Cup in the United States — which holds the record for the highest total attendance — in every respect.
The body that regulates the sport's rules has ratified, as expected, the use of five substitutes into the Laws of the Game.
Game over: EA and FIFA part ways after decadeslong partnership
FIFA said it would launch new video games developed by third-party studios and publishers, but added it had granted a short-term extension to EA to launch a new FIFA title later this year.
Replay for abandoned Brazil-Argentina World Cup qualifier confirmed
FIFA's disciplinary committee upheld the fines imposed on both countries as a result of September's match being abandoned just minutes after kickoff.
Gianni Infantino says Qatar migrant workers get pride from hard work
The head of soccer's global governing body was asked if FIFA would make "any sort of commitment" to help families of workers who died in Qatar.
FIFA launches new streaming service for documentaries and live games
The new platform, which is advertiser-funded, also includes an archive featuring highlights or full replays of every World Cup and Women's World Cup match ever recorded on camera.
Sepp Blatter and Michael Platini to face Swiss fraud trial in June
The former FIFA and UEFA chiefs have repeatedly denied wrongdoing in the past over the $2 million payment, for which Swiss prosecutors indicted them in November.
Russia's hopes of competing at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar were effectively ended after CAS rejected a request to freeze FIFA's suspension while the country's appeal was being heard.
A statement by ministers from 37 nations called for Russia and Belarus not to be permitted to "host, bid for or be awarded any international sporting events."
The Russian Football Union (RFU) will lodge an appeal against the decisions by FIFA and UEFA to bar Russian teams from international competitions over Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), it said on Thursday. The union said in a ...
Sporting bans are significant blows for Russia, which under Putin have used sports as a powerful force for its image both globally and internally.
