Overview
- The Premier League, LaLiga, Bundesliga and Serie A published a joint statement on Friday, Sept. 25, calling for fundamental changes that would give stakeholders a genuine, formal role in FIFA decision‑making.
- The leagues said the abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise proposal to sell roughly 20% of FIFA’s commercial rights revealed an unhealthy concentration of regulatory, commercial and political power in the president’s office.
- Their demands include a permanent stakeholder body with meaningful veto or approval rights over the international match calendar and core competition rights, independent impact assessments for major proposals, and a clear separation between FIFA’s regulatory functions and its commercial arm.
- Gianni Infantino has offered an independent external review and public consultations and says he will stand for re‑election, but confederations, national federations and the four leagues say procedural promises are insufficient without binding institutional safeguards.
- The leagues want any incoming or returning president to convene an independently chaired Governance Convention within 100 days to produce public reform proposals, a step that could reshape FIFA governance ahead of the March 2027 presidential vote.