March 15 – Norwegian club Frederikstad have voted to pressure their national federation to boycott the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia that FIFA is expected to award to the Arab Kingdom this year because there are no other bidding candidates.
March 12 – FIFA is facing more pressure from human rights groups over its failure to suspend Israel from international competition.
March 11 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has again raised the idea of setting football transfer fees by algorithm instead of clubs negotiating a market value price for contracted players.
March 8 – FIFA did not prosecute a single doping case from more than 2,600 samples taken from players at its tournaments in 2023.
March 4 – Football’s lawmakers have approved a series of changes ahead of the 2024/25 season, impacting all major leagues across the globe.
March 4 – FIFA President Gianni Infantino has ruled out blue cards being shown to players sent to sin bins.
March 1 – The Saudi Arabian Football Federation (SAFF), the only country left in the bidding to host the 2034 World Cup, has formally launched its bid campaign under the ‘Growing. Together’ slogan.
February 29 – FIFA has launched an online tool to help fans track their team’s qualification for the maiden 2025 Club World Cup (FIFA is calling it the Mundial de Clubes) to be played in the US next year.
February 27 – Global governing body FIFA has launched a new series of friendly matches, piloting the first edition of the ‘FIFA Series’ in March, in a bid to offer more “meaningful action” to smaller nations.
February 27 – FIFA and the World Trade Organisation have reaffirmed their commitment to Cotton-4 plus African Countries in a bid to promote sustainable development via the global football economy.
February 16 – Qatar have rocketed 21 places up the official World Rankings following their Asian Cup Campaign on home soil which saw them become back-to-back continental champions, resulting in a best-ever placement in the ranking of 37th with 1499 points.
February 14 – While the Premier League clubs kept their hands in their pockets in the January transfer window, the winter sales window still saw its second highest spend ever at $1.46 billion.
February 9 – Football may witness a transformative change as the International Football Association Board (IFAB) contemplates the introduction of blue cards, which could be trialled in England as soon as next season’s FA Cup.
February 2 – The FIFA Museum in Zurich has released record-breaking numbers for the calendar year 2023, welcoming 230,000 visitors over the course of the year- a record high since its opening eight years ago.
January 28 – Hard on the heels of a Spanish judge’s ruling that former Spanish FA (RFEF) president Luis Rubiales will face a criminal trial for sexual harassment, FIFA’s appeal committee has upheld Rubiales’ ban from national and international football.