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 […]
Super Eagles coach Gernot Rohr has admitted that his team may have no match winners, but team spirit and tactics will see them soar over their group D opponents at the FIFA World Cup in Russia. The Super Eagles are the least ranked team in the group and accordingly, book makers believe the odds are […]
Nigeria has moved five places up, now 47th in the world and sixth in Africa with 635 points in the April FIFA/Coca-Cola rankings released on Thursday. In the previous rankings, Nigeria was on 52nd position with 609 points. Meanwhile, Tunisia is the highest ranked African team on 14th place with Senegal and DR […]
Nigeria has moved five places up, now 47th in the world and sixth in Africa with 635 points in the April FIFA/Coca-Cola rankings released on Thursday. In the previous rankings, Nigeria was on 52nd position with 609 points. Meanwhile, Tunisia is the highest ranked African team on 14th place with Senegal and DR Congo on […]