Fifa

The European Club Association (ECA), the independent representative body for European football clubs, will present a proposal to a Fifa task force on Monday regarding the potential staging of Qatar’s 2022 World Cup in an April-May window.

Will the already-maligned world of football transfers turn even murkier when FIFA scraps the official football agent’s licence next spring?

The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) has been given until Friday to overturn a court ruling that nullified its recent elections or face being served a seven-month ban by Fifa, the sport’s global governing body.

Security at the 2018 Fifa World Cup national team football tournament in Russia should be “effective but not intrusive,” according to the country’s President, Vladimir Putin.

Fifa has said that preparations for the 2014 Club World Cup in Morocco remain on course, but world football’s governing body is monitoring the situation concerning the Ebola crisis in Africa.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has hailed Russia’s preparations for the 2018 World Cup and reiterated that sporting boycotts are not the answer to disquiet over political issues.

Harold Mayne-Nicholls, a potential candidate for the presidency of Fifa, has put forward a proposal for games at the 2022 World Cup national team tournament in Qatar to take place at night in order to avoid the Middle Eastern state’s extreme summer daytime heat.

Fifa has responded to repeated calls for ethics prosecutor Michael Garcia’s report into alleged corruption in the bidding for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to be made public by stating that full publication is not legally possible.

The Canadian Soccer Association (CSA) has rejected claims that its plan to use artificial turf during the country’s hosting of the 2015 Fifa Women’s World Cup is gender discriminatory, adding that a lawsuit filed by a leading group of international players over the matter has “no merit”.

Fifa has signed a four-year strategic plan with the All India Football Federation (AIFF) to develop the sport in the country, but has warned that the I-League must retain its status as the top domestic competition in the wake of the launch of the Indian Super League (ISL).

Alexey Sorokin, chief executive of Russia’s organising committee for the 2018 Fifa World Cup, has warned that the country’s budget for hosting the national team football tournament will not be increased despite a significant drop in the value of the national ruble currency.

The fallout from the 2011 Fifa presidential election scandal has resumed with world football’s governing body today (Wednesday) banning Mongolian Football Federation president Ganbold Buyannemekh for five years for taking bribes from Mohamed bin Hammam.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has reiterated that it has been assured by world football’s governing body Fifa that the organisation’s 2022 World Cup will not clash with the winter Olympic Games in the same year.

Harold Mayne-Nicholls, the former head of Fifa’s technical committee, is considering challenging Sepp Blatter for the presidency of football’s world governing body.

A leading group of international women footballers have followed through on their threat to bring legal action against Fifa after the game’s world governing body refused to alter its stance on the use of artificial turf at its 2015 Women’s World Cup in Canada.

Key figures from Fifa, Coca-Cola and Apex-Brasil are the latest additions to the international speaker line-up for the Leaders Sport Business Summit.