Overview
- Reports on the evening of Monday, October 5 say CONI will present a motion to commissarise the Italian Football Federation and offer the commissioner role to Giovanni Malagò ahead of the Giunta vote set for Tuesday at 13:00.
- The dispute rests on a legal split: four jurists commissioned by CONI concluded Malagò’s June 22 election was invalid because he was not tesserato when he ran, while five experts hired by FIGC argue that lack of tesseramento does not automatically justify commissariamento.
- Who can vote and how the Giunta and then the larger Consiglio Nazionale decide is contested, with potential conflicts of interest around Diana Bianchedi and Elisabet Spina and a simple majority of voting members needed to pass the motion.
- Lega Serie A has publicly backed Malagò and warned that commissariamento would be inopportune, and UEFA and political pressure over Italy’s Euro 2032 bid increase the stakes for any CONI intervention.
- Regardless of Tuesday’s outcome, both sides expect immediate appeals to sports and administrative courts — starting at the Collegio di Garanzia dello Sport and likely moving to the TAR and Consiglio di Stato — which could keep Italy’s football governance tied up for months.