{"id":911237,"date":"2026-09-30T17:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911237\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T17:18:11","slug":"swiss-football-association-withdraws-support-for-fifa-boss-gianni-infantino-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/911237\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Football Association withdraws support for FIFA boss Gianni Infantino | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"

Executive committee reverses its support \u200cfor the \u200bSwiss football administrator after endorsing his candidacy in June.<\/p>\n

Published On 30 Sep 202630 Sep 2026<\/p>\n

The Swiss Football Association (SFV) has announced it is withdrawing its support for incumbent Gianni Infantino<\/a> in next year\u2019s FIFA presidential election.<\/p>\n

Numerous leading European national associations have withdrawn their support for Infantino after he caused uproar in July with a proposal to sell off stakes<\/a> of FIFA competitions \u2013 including the World Cup and Club World Cup \u2013 to private investors.<\/p>\n

The SFV\u2019s decision, announced on Wednesday, carries weight as Infantino is Swiss, and both FIFA and European football\u2019s governing body UEFA are based in Switzerland.<\/p>\n

The SFV said that its executive board met on Friday and \u201cdecided to withdraw the support it had declared in June 2026 for Gianni Infantino\u2019s candidacy for a further term as FIFA president\u201d.<\/p>\n

Infantino\u2019s plan would have allowed private investors to acquire stakes in a company created under the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) initiative. The backlash that followed led to the proposals being quickly shelved.<\/p>\n

SFV president Peter Knabel said Swiss football\u2019s governing body expected FIFA\u2019s leadership to uphold the highest standards of transparency, accountability and institutional responsibility.<\/p>\n

\u201cKey questions regarding the background, responsibilities and decision-making processes remain unanswered,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs these have not been convincingly clarified, we cannot justify continuing to support Gianni Infantino\u2019s candidacy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Executive committee reverses its support \u200cfor the \u200bSwiss football administrator after endorsing his candidacy in June. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,2057,596,588,85,6221],"class_list":["post-911237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-europe","tag-football","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-switzerland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}