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The 75th FIFA Congress took place in Asunción, Paraguay on 15 May 2025, with FIFA President Gianni Infantino outlining the groundbreaking impact the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 will have on football across the world.

FIFA Congress 2025

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2024 was a monumental year for FIFA, both on and off the pitch as we were able to show more than ever that football unites the world.

FIFA's Annual Report 2024

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To deliver the most relevant insights, the benchmarking focuses exclusively on women’s football leagues and clubs. The analysis focuses on the performance of leagues and clubs in each tier and how each can learn from its peers and/or the tier above.

'Setting the Pace' FIFA Benchmarking Report (4th Edition)

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FIFA's focus centres on 11 strategic objectives for the next four years.

Strategic Objectives for the Global Game: 2023-2027

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Concussion is a traumatic brain injury common in all sports. It’s vital to understand the signs, symptoms, and impacts of concussion because brain health is non-negotiable.

Concussion: Suspect and Protect

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Football Unites the World is a global movement to inspire, unite and develop through football. It brings people together, all over the world, to celebrate the beautiful game.

Football Unites the World

In Focus

FIFA World Cup 2026™

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FIFA Women's World Cup Brazil 2027™

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FIFA Series

The FIFA Series 2026 brings together national teams with a wide range of competitive profiles, reinforcing its development-driven design. 

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FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup Poland 2026™

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FIFA Women's Champions Cup 2026™

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The Best FIFA Football Awards™ 2025

The Best FIFA Football AwardsTM 2025

FIFA Arab Cup Qatar 2025™

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FIFA Intercontinental Cup 2025™

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FIFA Tournaments & Events

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Find everything FIFA is doing for any football related topic.

What FIFA does

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Since 1904, FIFA, the Fédération Internationale de Football Association, has served as the global governing body for football.

Organisation

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A wide range of campaigns shows FIFA’s extensive and widespread engagement to use the power of football for positive global impact.

Campaigns

Member Associations

The FIFA Member Associations (MAs) are at the centre of football’s global ecosystem, representing 211 countries and territories across six continents.

Document

From archived financial reports to published circulars, on subjects as diverse at the Laws of the Game, the regulations of each and every FIFA tournament, technical reports or even security regulations

Reports & Documents

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Updated ranking table for Men's and Women's teams. 

FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking

INSIDE FIFA

FIFA Chief Football Officer, Jill Ellis speaks at a panel discussion at The John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts on December 04, 2025 in Washington, DC

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Rules and reports, legal portal, Football Tribunal, decisions, Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), anti-doping, compliance, integrity, educational programmes, disciplinary, etc.

Legal

FIFA Clearing House, agents, transfer reports, transfer windows, educational programmes (transfers, agency), etc.

Transfer system

Strategy, programmes in club licensing, coach mentorship, professionalisation, benchmarking and health snapshot reports, etc.

Women's Football

FIFA Forward, Diploma in Club Management, clubs and leagues professionalisation, Club Benefits Programme, professional football landscape, etc.

Advancing football

International refereeing list, refereeing at tournaments, Laws of the Game, etc.

Refereeing

Standards for video assistant referees (VAR), goal-line technology, playing surfaces, etc. certified installations, providers, etc.

Innovation

New football metrics, technical reports, coaching resources, technical development, FIFA Talent Academies, FIFA Training Centre...

Talent development

Bidding processes, sustainability, legacy, volunteering, media rights, broadcasters, etc.

Tournament organisation

FIFA is working on a wide range of topics from improving the women's game and developing football around the world to ensuring better football governance structures.

When Sisleide do Amor Lima, better known to the football world as Sissi, was told as a child that playing the game was out of the question for a girl, it sparked a rebellion inside her that drove her all the way to the top of the sport.

Sissi on women's football evolution: ‘No one dreamed of it’

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International Women’s Day provides a vital opportunity to celebrate the women shaping football at every level; female referees are increasingly breaking barriers, demonstrating on the field that excellence and competence define authority rather than gender

'Representation matters' for female referees says Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb on International Women’s Day

FIFA Head of Womens Refereeing Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb during The Game Changers with Bibiana Steinhaus-Webb at the Home of FIFA on January 16, 2025 in Zurich

FIFA convened a two-day Anti-Doping Confederations Meeting, bringing together the anti-doping units from all six confederations to strengthen collaboration and align preparations for the upcoming international football and 2027 World Anti-Doping Code cycle

FIFA and six confederations reaffirm united front on anti-doping ahead of FIFA World Cup 2026™ and revised global regulations

Anti-Doping Confederations Meeting at the FIFA Americas office on March 2, 2026 in Miami, Florida

FIFA provides financial and logistical support to its 211 Member Associations (MAs) through various programmes. Inside FIFA takes a look at the extraordinary work done during February 2026 to promote, strengthen and make football truly global. 

FIFA Member Associations in focus (February 2026)

Costa Rica Training Session - FIFA Women's World Cup Australia & New Zealand 2023

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has raised the FIFA flag above the organisation’s office in Paris, France, during a special ceremony to mark the presence of world football’s governing body in the city in which it was founded in 1904.

Jill Ellis focuses on expanding opportunity on International Women’s Day

What FIFA does

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