May
2017
UEFA INCORPORATES HUMAN RIGHTS & ANTI-CORRUPTION CRITERIA INTO BIDDING REQUIREMENTS
Sport - The decision by UEFA to include new criteria to protect and preserve human rights and tackle corruption in the bidding requirements for the 2024 European Championships is an essential step to preventing abuse and corruption in connection with the event, the Sport and Rights Alliance (SRA) said ...
Mar
2017
Most fans don’t believe Gianni Infantino’s first year has won back trust in FIFA
Sport - Transparency International and Forza Football surveyed 25,000 fans from over 50 countries. See the results.
Feb
2016
Global Corruption Report: Sport and results of new poll on fan distrust of FIFA
Sport - On the day Transparency International launches its Global Corruption Report: Sport, an in-depth report looking at why sport has become so corrupt and what can be done to stop this, the anti-corruption group is also announcing the results of a new poll that shows just how much fans distrust FIFA, ...
Feb
2016
Transparency International Global Corruption Report: Sport highlights scale of corruption in Africa
Sport - The launch today of Transparency International’s Global Corruption Report: Sport highlights that Africa is vulnerable to serious reputational risks across all sports and is already compromised by corruption.
Feb
2016
REPORT LAUNCH - Global Corruption Report on Sport and results of football fan poll 23 February
Sport - At a time when football, tennis and track and field face big corruption crises Transparency International will publish its Global Corruption Report: Sport, an analysis of the root causes of corruption in sport and recommendations to fix it. Coinciding with the report, the Forza ...
Nov
2015
Football associations publish little or no information on millions of dollars received from FIFA
Sport - Most of the 209 national Football Associations that make up FIFA, world football’s governing body, publish little or no information on what they do and how they spend their money despite the fact that they received more than $1 million each from FIFA in 2014, according to a new report from ...
Nov
2015
MEDIA ADVISORY: Transparency International to publish report on FIFAs 209 football associations
Access to information - Transparency International will publish a report on the transparency and accountability of FIFA’s 209 member football associations on 19 November 2015. FIFA gives millions of dollars to its football associations around the world. What do they do with it?
Oct
2015
FIFAs national Football Associations should only support presidential candidates of high integrity
Sport - Today Cobus de Swardt, managing director of Transparency International sent a letter to the head of all 209 Football Associations (FA) that are members of FIFA, world football’s governing body, asking them to support FIFA presidential candidates “with outstanding personal records of integrity ...
Sep
2015
Transparency International: Criminal investigation must force Sepp Blatter out of FIFA
Sport - Cobus de Swardt, managing director of Transparency International said today: “The criminal investigations at FIFA have now reached the very top, showing that the organisation is not fit for purpose. It needs independent oversight immediately. No statement from the current management about reform ...
Aug
2015
FIFA – An Independent Reform Commission
Sport - The corruption scandals plaguing FIFA are the result of a systemic failure of governance over many years. This is how an Independent Reform Commission could be established.