Aleksander Ceferin has been re-elected to a fresh four-year term as president of European football governing body UEFA on Thursday. Aleksander Ceferin is a Slovenian lawyer and football administrator. Ceferin was president of the Football Association of Slovenia between 2011 and 2016, and had been the President of UEFA since Sept. 14, 2016. The 51-year-old […]
The Tanzania Football Federation (TFF) has made it clear that it will channel the money it receives from FIFA to develop its training and playing facilities. Football’s world governing body has resumed allocating money to the TFF after a three-year hiatus due to administrative irregularities. The TFF President, Wallace Karia, has welcomed FIFA’s decision to […]
Only seven match officials from Africa will officiate at next year’s FIFA Women’s World Cup in France, according to a statement on the football governing body’s website. No Nigerian made the list that has Ethiopia’s Lidya Tafesse Abebe, Zambia’s Gladys Lengwe and Rwandan Mukansanga Salima, while Bernadettar Kwimbira (Malawi), Mary Njoroge (Kenya), Lidwine Rakotozafinoro (Madagascar) […]
Manchester City lead the way with just over 5 million dollars as FIFA on Tuesday announced it has dished out 209 million Euros to clubs. The money paid to the clubs was for releasing their players for the 2018 FIFA World Cup held from June 14 to July 15 in Russia. The world football ruling […]
Fifa has appointed a normalisation committee to run the affairs of Madagascar’s Football Federation (FMF). Football’s world body says it is disbanding the current administration because the FA’s electoral process was “not carried out in accordance with the regulatory requirements applicable to the members of Fifa.” The normalisation committee’s mandate will include organising FMF elections […]
The biggest names in football would be banned from the World Cup if they played in a breakaway European Super League, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Wednesday. Infantino, speaking to a small group of reporters at FIFA headquarters, said the governing body would punish players at clubs like Barcelona, Manchester City and Bayern Munich […]
FIFA will raise the prize money for the Women’s World Cup from 15 million dollars to 30 million dollars. The raise is starting with next year’s edition in France, FIFA President Gianni Infantino announced on Friday, though critics immediately said the increase was not enough. Following a FIFA council meeting in Rwanda, the Swiss-Italian also […]
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) President Gianni Infantino arrived in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, on Wednesday afternoon for the 8th FIFA Council Meeting. The 8th FIFA Council Meeting is scheduled for Friday, 26 October 2018 at 9am at Kigali Convention Center in Kigali City. According to FERWAFA website, Infantino was met on arrival at […]
World football governing body FIFA and the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) on Tuesday took to Twitter to pay post-humous respect to late former Super Eagles striker Rashidi Yekini. Yekini, who would have clocked 55 on Tuesday, was until his death Nigeria’s senior national football team highest goal scorer with 37 goals — a record yet […]
FIFA President Gianni Infantino hailed Qatar’s progress on infrastructure ahead of its 2022 World Cup and said the tournament is poised to be the best one yet. Qatar’s tiny size, high temperatures and lack of ready stadium infrastructure have prompted some to question FIFA’s decision to make it host. But the desert state has since […]
Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA), has formally ‘welcomed’ the President of Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) Amaju Melvin Pinnick back to the fold of its elite Football Family. This is after Pinnick’s re-election as NFF President at the Elective Congress in Katsina on 20th September. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) released the following statement: “This […]
FIFA plans to limit the number of players a club can loan out each season to prevent teams stockpiling talent.Football’s governing body had proposed a maximum of six loans per club. But is still has to come to an agreement with the game’s other stakeholders – including club, league and player representatives – as to […]
FIFA will start funding business-class flights for some 2019 Women’s World Cup teams when they travel to the tournament in France. FIFA official Emily Shaw also told a women’s sports law conference total prize money will “significantly increase” from $15 million shared among 24 teams at the 2015 edition. She said the total sum will […]
According to Spanish outlet Diario Sport, Lionel Messi has been left off the podium for FIFA’s The Best. Incomprehensibly, the Barcelona forward is not in the final three for the world football governing body’s prestigious annual prize. Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric and Antoine Griezmann are the three finalists. They top a shortlist of 10, which did include Messi, along […]
Cristiano Ronaldo, Luka Modric and Mohamed Salah are the finalists for Best Fifa Men’s Player award for 2018. Barcelona and Argentina forward Lionel Messi, a five-time Ballon d’Or winner, missed out on a place in the top three. There was also no place for any member of France’s World Cup winning squad. Lyon’s Champions League […]
The chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja branch, Mr Abimbola Kayode, has informed stakeholders from the Rufus Giwa-led faction of the Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) that the Federal Government’s recognition of Amaju Pinnick as Presisent of NFF was to save Nigeria from FIFA’s wrath. Victor Baribote, proprietor of Nembe City FC; Harrison Jala, […]
The new ranking formula, which was approved by the FIFA Council in June after a lengthy period of testing, relies on adding/subtracting points won or lost for a game to/from the previous point totals rather than averaging game points over a given time period as in the previous version of the Ranking. The changes, of […]
Apparently taking a pre-emptive action to prevent the sledge hammer from the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), the Federal Government through the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) ejected the NFF self-imposed leader, Christopher Giwa, from the secretariat. Believed to be acting on the orders of President Muhammadu Buhari, the DSS directed […]
The federal government on Tuesday begged Nigerians traveling to Russia not to escape during or after the 2018 World Cup tournament. Solomon Dalung, Minister of Youths and Sports made the appeal in a chat with newsmen in Abuja. Speaking on the fears of trafficking in persons during the mundial, Dalung said that nobody would be […]
The European football market in 2016/17 was worth a record €25.5 billion with the Big 5 leagues accounting for €14.7 billion. The headline numbers of Annual Review of Football Finance from the Sports Business Group at Deloitte show the top 92 Premier League and Football League clubs generated a record £5.5 billion in revenue in […]