{"id":750390,"date":"2026-08-26T14:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750390\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T14:28:15","slug":"uefa-poised-to-lift-boycott-threat-after-fifa-promises-no-world-cup-sale-repeat-uefa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/750390\/","title":{"rendered":"Uefa poised to lift boycott threat after Fifa promises no World Cup sale repeat | Uefa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uefa is poised to drop its threatened boycott<\/a> of Fifa competitions after receiving concrete guarantees that the global governing body will never attempt a repeat of Gianni Infantino\u2019s plan to sell stakes<\/a> in the World Cup.<\/p>\n

The Guardian understands European teams are likely to be cleared for participation in the upcoming Under-20 Women\u2019s World Cup, along with subsequent tournaments, after Fifa<\/a> provided the binding assurances that no equivalent of its president\u2019s ill-fated scheme will be put on the table.<\/p>\n

Uefa had threatened the boycott after Infantino\u2019s Fifa Forward Enterprise proposal was revealed and doubled down after it was withdrawn, saying the condition that \u201csuch attempts to disfigure the game in this way will never be made again\u201d had not been met.<\/p>\n

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Despite exchanging barbs in public, Uefa and Fifa are understood to have been having private discussions over the terms of removing the boycott threat for several weeks with the European governing body finally getting the reassurances it required.<\/p>\n

When Fifa confirmed its decision to abandon FFE four days after it became public it neglected to pledge that a similar privatisation plan would not be repeated, but it has now done so in private correspondence.<\/p>\n

A decision to drop the boycott will allow England, who named their squad for the under-20 tournament last week, to travel to Poland in time for the opening game against Canada on 5 September.<\/p>\n

England\u2019s under-20s are in line to go to the World Cup in Poland. Photograph: Carlos Rodrigues\/The FA\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

France and Spain had also listed their travelling party in anticipation that the boycott would be lifted. Portugal, Italy and the host nation are the other European countries due to compete.<\/p>\n

While the boycott is yet to be publicly dropped, it is among the topics that may arise in a meeting of Uefa\u2019s executive committee and federation chiefs in Monte Carlo on Thursday. The 55 heads of Uefa\u2019s member associations will convene before the Champions League draw during what is traditionally a significant few days in the European football calendar.<\/p>\n

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Uefa\u2019s position that Infantino must be replaced has not changed and further steps regarding its stance towards the Fifa leadership will also be discussed at the meeting. Italy\u2019s football federation (FIGC) on Wednesday became the latest to publicly withdraw support for Infantino. \u201cThis decision is intended to clearly and transparently express the FIGC\u2019s position … regarding the recent initiatives promoted by the Fifa president concerning the governance and development of international competitions,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

There will be relief in some quarters that younger players, in particular, will not become embroiled in the volatile battle for football\u2019s future. But the fact that Fifa has been forced to mitigate for its president\u2019s actions is another humiliation for a persistently scandal-hit organisation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uefa is poised to drop its threatened boycott of Fifa competitions after receiving concrete guarantees that the global…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":750391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-750390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/750391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}