In July 2026, Gianni Infantino’s secret plan to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors led by Josh Kushner was exposed. Fans and football associations pushed back, stopping the plan. But those behind it are still in charge, and nothing stops them from trying again.
They act as if football belongs to them and fans are just there to pay. It’s time to prove them wrong.
Infantino must go. And FIFA needs reform: affordable tickets and TV subscriptions, full financial transparency, and rules that stop one person from holding so much power.
On 23 November, FIFA’s member associations will meet and vote on football’s future. Let’s make sure they hear from the fans they must represent.
Infantino must go.
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Supporting your team should never mean having to choose between watching a match and paying your bills. Ticket prices, resale practices, and the cost of watching football on television or online must be fair and affordable for fans from all walks of life. Football’s greatest competitions should bring people together, not become exclusive events reserved for those who can afford to pay the most.
Make FIFA a true not-for-profit body. Put people getting into football ahead of money.
Fans deserve to know where football’s money goes and who benefits from FIFA’s decisions. Publish every grant, contract and audit, and make FIFA’s leadership answer for how the money is spent.
A transparent FIFA. Open books on every decision and every dollar, because corruption needs somewhere to hide.
One person should never have so much power over the game we all love. Give FIFA’s Council and Congress a real say, introduce more strict term limits and independent oversight, and make sure clubs, players, leagues and supporters have a voice in decisions that affect football’s future.
Stop concentrating power in the FIFA presidency. That change starts with Gianni Infantino and the current leadership stepping down.
One resignation is not the finish line. Changing the rules is.
Gianni Infantino must go, and his bid for re-election must be stopped. But replacing one president is not enough. FIFA needs new leadership and fundamental reforms that limit presidential power, strengthen accountability, and ensure that no one can ever again concentrate so much power in their own hands.
On 23 November 2026, FIFA’s member associations will meet. We are demanding that Gianni Infantino steps down before then, and that FIFA’s association presidents commit to real reform that puts affordable football, transparency and good governance at the heart of the organisation.
Your signature goes to your national football association, the people who have a vote at FIFA. Make sure they hear from the fans they must represent. What happens in your country can help change football worldwide.
We have until 23 November 2026. That’s when FIFA’s member associations meet. We’re demanding Infantino must go and not seek a new term as president, and that FIFA commits to football everyone can afford, open books, and fair rules that should stop one person from holding so much power.
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We are football fans. We care about the beautiful game, and we refuse to stand by while FIFA’s current leadership undermines everything that makes football the game we love.
Gianni Infantino’s secret plan to sell the World Cup to private investors led by Josh Kushner was just a symptom of what’s wrong: they think that football is something that is theirs to sell. That fans are just their cash machines.
The plan may have collapsed under pressure from supporters and some football associations, but that doesn’t change the mindset behind it. And that is precisely what needs to change.
We had enough. As football supporters we have decided to come together and act to protect the game we love.
Infantino must go. But replacing one person is not enough. FIFA needs democratic reforms to make the game more affordable, bring transparency and accountability to its leadership, and give the people who love the game a meaningful voice on how it’s run.
Every national football association has a vote that can help shape FIFA’s future. By signing this petition, we are demanding our national association to use that vote to push for new leadership and genuine reform.
At FIFA’s member associations meeting on 23 November 2026 we ask our national football association to support these four demands:
Football belongs to the people, to those who love the game, who fill the stadiums, follow their teams on television and online, travel home and away, and stand by their clubs through victories and defeats.
We ask you to carry these demands into FIFA’s meetings and use your vote to Save Football.
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On 23 November 2026, 211 football associations get a vote, and their presidents are the people who decide whether Gianni Infantino stays. Here is what each one has said, confederation by confederation.
Every position on this page comes from a public statement and carries the link to it. An association marked no public position has not gone on the record — that is not the same as being undecided, and we do not put words in anyone’s mouth. If something here is wrong, or you can document a position we are missing, write to us and we will correct it with the source.
In July, FIFA tried to sell a stake in the World Cup — and had to back down. The ground is already moving.
Sources: FIFA media release, 28 July 2026 · Football Supporters Europe · The National, 30 July 2026
We want football to be affordable for all, a transparent FIFA, and less power concentrated in its presidency.
Decisions taken behind closed doors, money nobody outside can follow, and favours handed down from the top.
Prices that climb until ordinary people are priced out of the stadium, off the TV, and quietly pulled away from the game they love.
FIFA is a not-for-profit. It is being run as a business in disguise, for the benefit of a few.
Enough is enough. We need your support to demand change now, before Infantino seeks re-election to run business as usual.
Pick a year. Each entry is sourced, and where something is alleged rather than proven, it says so.
US prosecutors indict more than 50 football officials from over 20 countries. Twenty-seven plead guilty; two are convicted at trial in 2017. By June 2022, $124.3m has been returned to victims. Infantino is elected the following February, promising to clean the place up.
US Department of Justice, Eastern District of New York, 30 June 2022.
FIFA's Council does not re-nominate Cornel Borbély and Hans-Joachim Eckert, the two men running its ethics investigations. The Congress in Manama elects replacements. Both call the move political and “the end of the reform process”. Infantino calls it a storm in a teacup.
FIFA Congress, Manama, 11 May 2017; The Guardian, 18 June 2017.
Der Spiegel and its European partners publish internal emails, including exchanges from December 2017 with ethics judge Vassilios Skouris in which Infantino proposes changes to the code. FIFA says nothing irregular took place. From August that year, bribery, embezzlement and match-fixing expire after ten years — anything older can no longer be pursued.
Der Spiegel / EIC, 2–3 November 2018; FIFA Code of Ethics, in force 12 August 2018.
Infantino meets Switzerland's attorney general, Michael Lauber, three times with no minutes taken — twice in 2016 and once in June 2017 — while Lauber's office is running FIFA-linked cases. Lauber offers his resignation in July 2020. A special prosecutor opens proceedings. The case is shelved in 2023 with no conviction.
CNN, 30 July 2020; proceedings closed 2023.
FIFA's independent Human Rights Advisory Board files its closing report and its four-year mandate is allowed to expire. It is not renewed. FIFA proposes a sub-committee inside its own Governance Committee instead.
Human Rights Advisory Board closing report, 23 March 2021; FairSquare.
Days before the World Cup, seven European federations say they have been told players wearing the OneLove armband face sporting sanctions, including a yellow card. They drop it. In Doha, Infantino opens the tournament with “Today I feel Qatari… today I feel a migrant worker.”
Joint statement of seven European associations, 21 November 2022; Doha press conference, 19 November 2022.
The FIFA Council decides that Infantino's first years, 2016 to 2019, do not count toward the three-term limit. If re-elected in 2027 he can stay until 2031 — around fifteen years in a job limited to twelve.
FIFA Council decision, 16 December 2022; FIFA Statutes art. 33.2; Reuters.
The research group FairSquare publishes Substitute, concluding that FIFA “is not fit to govern world football”. Among its findings: standing committees grew from 9 in the 2016 statutes to 35 approved in May 2024, and Council members receive around $250,000 a year, vice-presidents $300,000.
FairSquare, Substitute: The case for the external reform of FIFA, 30 October 2024.
The 2030 and 2034 hosting decisions are merged into a single item, each with a single candidate, and approved by acclamation — no vote is taken. Saudi Arabia gets 2034.
FIFA Extraordinary Congress, 11 December 2024.
FIFA sells the Club World Cup broadcast rights to DAZN for $1bn on 4 December. Seventy-five days later, Saudi state-backed SURJ Sports Investment takes a stake in DAZN, reported at around $1bn. The two events are close in time. No document linking them has been published, and none should be assumed.
The Independent, 4 December 2024; SportsPro, 17 February 2025.
FIFA creates a Peace Prize in November and awards it to Donald Trump at the World Cup draw in Washington on 5 December. Three days later FairSquare files an ethics complaint over FIFA's own political-neutrality rules. There has been no public ruling.
FIFA, 5 December 2025; FairSquare ethics complaint, 8 December 2025.
The attorneys general of New York and New Jersey subpoena FIFA over World Cup ticket pricing, citing rises in more than 90 of 104 matches and an average increase of 34%. It is the first World Cup sold with variable pricing. A subpoena is a demand for documents, not a charge.
Office of the New York Attorney General, 27 May 2026.
Folarin Balogun is sent off in the last 32. Donald Trump phones Infantino, who confirms the call. FIFA leaves the automatic one-match ban suspended on a year's probation. The red card itself stands. Infantino says FIFA's judicial bodies are independent.
Euronews, 6 July 2026.
Between 9 June and the final on 19 July, Infantino flies 115 hours and 95,403 km through 21 airports, mostly on a Qatari government Gulfstream G650 operated by Qatar Airways. FIFA does not publish what it spends on travel.
Associated Press via Fortune, 19 July 2026.
FIFA confirms FIFA Forward Enterprise: its commercial business valued at $20bn, with up to $4.2bn to be raised. UEFA's filing in a Manhattan court puts around 20% with investors led by Thrive Capital. Three days later, after UEFA, AFC and CONCACAF refuse, the plan is withdrawn.
FIFA media release, 28 July 2026; UEFA court filing via AP.
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