Sepp Blatter

Disgraced FIFA chiefs Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini go on trial

The pair are being tried over a $2.08 million payment in 2011 to Michel Platini, who was then in charge of European football’s governing body UEFA.

Swiss prosecutors ditch Warner jet probe into Blatter

Meanwhile, Sepp Blatter's family disclosed the former FIFA president spent a week in an induced coma after having heart surgery in December.

Swiss prosecutors investigate Blatter, Platini for fraud in widened probe

The former power brokers of world football, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, were initially part of a 2015 legal procedure over a multi-million-dollar payment to Platini in 2011.

Swiss open fresh probe into ex-FIFA chief Sepp Blatter

84-year-old Blatter has been notified by Swiss federal prosecutors that he is an “accused person” over a loan FIFA gave in 2010 to the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association, according to a document seen by The Associated Press.

Platini arrested as part of 2022 World Cup investigation

Ex-UEFA chief Michel Platini was arrested Tuesday in connection with a probe into the awarding of the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

FIFA told by Iran eventually women will be allowed at games

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has returned from a trip to Tehran with reassurance from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani that women won't be shut out of stadiums for much longer, but no timeframe was provided,

Hope Solo accuses former Fifa boss Sepp Blatter of sexually assaulting her

American football player Hope Solo said former FIFA President Sepp Blatter grabbed her rear end shortly before the two appeared onstage at the annual Ballon d'Or Awards ceremony in Zurich, Switzerland in 2013.

FIFA finds no cause to block Russia and Qatar World Cups

Russia was awarded the 2018 World Cup and Qatar the 2022 tournament in a single, secret vote in Zurich in December 2010.

Sepp Blatter loses appeal against six-year FIFA ban

The Court of Arbitration for Sport verdict ends Blatter's hopes of becoming an honorary president of the football body he left in disgrace.

Thuram criticises FIFA for ending anti-racism project

FIFA said it was disbanding the task force set up in 2013 and declared that it had "completely fulfilled its temporary mission".

FIFA boss suggests 48-team World Cup

Gianni Infantino suggested that 16 teams would go home after just one knockout match, and the remainder of the tournament would be played as normal.

New UEFA president says he will stand up to big clubs

Slovenia's Aleksander Ceferin replaces France's Michel Platini who resigned in May after being banned from football for four years.