Overview
- CONI’s Giunta and then its Consiglio Nazionale voted Tuesday to commissariate the Italian Football Federation and unanimously appointed Giovanni Malagò as its commissario.
- The move followed a procedural finding that Malagò was not tesserato, meaning he lacked the formal FIGC membership required to stand in the June election, and a split of legal opinions on whether that error justified full removal.
- CONI president Luciano Buonfiglio proposed the compromise that made Malagò commissario to avoid a damaging institutional split and prolonged court fights, and Malagò is expected to regularize his membership and run in the fresh vote.
- Voting calculations and questions about conflicts of interest among CONI officials shaped the outcome, while Serie A clubs and messages from UEFA and FIFA pressured a quick, autonomy-preserving solution.
- The settlement restores short-term stability by setting a new electoral timetable (reported not later than 31 January 2027) but leaves unresolved governance and conflict-of-interest issues that could produce further legal, political, or oversight disputes.