Players call on FIFA to cut the carbon and put the planet, not the pocket, first
June 11 – Following in the footsteps of their female counterparts, a coalition of male football players has called on FIFA to take urgent climate action.
Integrity
SIGA Champions expanded with addition of Brazilian legends Mauro Silva and Tamires Dias
May 28 – Mauro Silva, aWorld Cup winner with Brazil’s men team in 1994, and Tamires who has more than 100 caps for the Brazilian women’s national team, have joined the SIGA Champions programme.
10 years on: Is FIFA better governed in 2025 than it was in 2015?
May 28 – On the tenth anniversary of FIFAGate, FairSquare, NGOs, academics, writers, whistleblowers and football supporters’ groups have argued that “FIFA is arguably more poorly governed today than a decade ago”.
FIFA has responded that it is “a completely new organisation”, and that 2015 marked the beginning of a process of “fundamental change”.
Romanian youth focus on player safeguarding and threat of match-fixing with Integriball 2.0 project
March 31 – The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has launched its Integriball 2.0 project, which aims to protect female and young footballers from threats related to safety and sports manipulation.
SIGA and Brazil’s Federal Anti-Corruption Authority (CGU) combine for integrity platform
March 28 – SIGA Latin America has signed what it says is a landmark Technical Cooperation Agreement with Brazil’s Office of the Comptroller General (Controladoria-Geral da União – CGU) the highest federal authority responsible for promoting transparency, auditing public accounts, enforcing internal control mechanisms, and combating corruption across Brazil.
SIGA take Female Leadership Summit to Brazil ahead of 2027 World Cup
March 26 – Sports integrity body SIGA is to host the inaugural Latin American edition of its Summit on Female Leadership in Sport in São Paulo on May 12 at the law firm Pinheiro Neto Advogados.
Op-Ed: From sidelines to boardrooms – women’s leadership in sport can’t wait
By Katie Simmonds, Chair, SIGA Women Council
March 8 – Here we go… again! Today we are celebrating International Women’s Day 2025, and it is time to shine a spotlight on our journey to achieving gender equity in sport. Stifle a yawn.
SIGAWomen to take its female leadership in sport summit in Dubai
February 14 – The SIGA Summit on Female Leadership in Sport will make its debut in Dubai on April 8. It’s last three editions have been hosted at the Mastercard Tech Hub in Manhattan.
SIGAWomen Council to champion gender equality and female leadership
February 13 – Sports integrity group SIGA has launched its SIGAWomen Council, dedicated to promoting gender equity and female leadership in sport.
LAFC part-owner Ruben Gnanalingam apologies for anti-Israel posts
February 11 – Major League Soccer (MLS) opens its 2025 season on February 22, however, LAFC have already hit the news in controversial fashion as part-owner, Ruben Gnanalingam, was forced to apologise for anti-Israel posts on social media.
SIGA signs 11 Portuguese players to 6th edition of Women’s Global Mentorship programme
January 30 – SIGA is has admitted 11 Portuguese female footballers as mentees into the SIGAWomen Global Mentorship Programme.
Former head of US agency that broke the FIFA corruption case in 2015 says it isn’t over yet
January 28 – Speaking at SIGA’s financial integrity forum (FITS) in Lisbon, Portugal, Richard Weber, the former director of the US’s IRSCI (Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation) agency that broke the case that led to the US indictments in 2015 of eventually more than 40 FIFA officials and associates, said that the investigation “is continuing today”.
Kick It Out tackles Infantino over Argentine players’ racist chanting towards French African players
January 17 – Anti-discrimination group Kick It Out has written a powerful letter to FIFA boss Gianni Infantino asking what action, if any, was being taken over a video posted on social media by Chelsea’s Argentine midfielder Enzo Fernandez last year featuring an alleged “racist and transphobic” chant against French players.
SIGA ramps up agenda for financial integrity forum FITS, January 27
January 16 – The Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) and SIGA Europe will hold its host its Financial Integrity and Transparency within Sport (FITS) Forum January 27 in Lisbon, Portugal.
IFA7 themes its 2025 UAE World Championship to sport integrity agenda
December 11 – The game of football continues to evolve with different platforms of the sport becoming more prominent. The latest iteration of the ‘beautiful game’ that is gaining traction is 7-a-side football.