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UEFA pursuing criminal legal action against Fifa and its president Gianni Infantino over World Cup plans
By Daniel Austin (BBC Sport senior journalist)
Published 6 minutes ago
UEFA is pursuing criminal legal proceedings against FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, over the scrapped plan to sell stakes in the World Cup and other competitions to private investors.
Documents seen by BBC Sport reveal an application has been made by European football’s governing body requesting access to evidence and documents for use in proceedings in Switzerland against both Infantino himself and FIFA.
The application states:
"On July 28, 2026, without consulting the Fifa Council, UEFA, or any of the other confederations, or any of the 211 Fifa member associations, Infantino, purportedly acting on behalf of Fifa, publicly announced a plan to place the commercial rights to the men’s and women’s World Cups and the Club World Cup into a new subsidiary: Fifa Forward Enterprise (FFE)."
"That announcement by Infantino was the public unveiling of a plan that he and a small circle of co-conspirators had conceived and reportedly been developing in secret for more than a year."
More to follow.
