Uefa pursuing criminal legal action against Infantino and Fifa
Uefa is pursuing criminal legal proceedings against Fifa and its president Gianni Infantino over the now scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup and its other competitions to private investors.
UEFA is currently pursuing criminal legal action against FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, in relation to the abandoned proposal to sell shares in the World Cup and other competitions to private investors. According to documents obtained by BBC Sport, UEFA has requested access to evidence and documents for use in proceedings in Switzerland against both Infantino and FIFA.
The request was made on July 28, 2026, following Infantino's announcement of a plan to place the commercial rights to the men's and women's World Cups, as well as the Club World Cup, into a new subsidiary called FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE). This announcement was made without consulting the FIFA Council, UEFA, or any of the 211 FIFA member associations, and was reportedly the result of a secret plan conceived and developed by Infantino and a small group of co-conspirators over the course of more than a year.
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