FIFA: FIFA president Gianni Infantino
UEFA has opened criminal legal proceedings against FIFA and its president, Gianni Infantino, over a now-scrapped plan to sell stakes in the commercial rights to the World Cup and other FIFA competitions to private investors.
Documents seen by BBC Sport on Thursday showed that UEFA had applied for access to evidence and documents for use in proceedings in Switzerland against FIFA and Infantino.
The legal move followed Infantino’s announcement on July 28, 2026, of plans to place the commercial rights to the men’s and women’s World Cups and the Club World Cup into a new FIFA subsidiary, FIFA Forward Enterprise.
According to the documents, the proposal was announced without consultation with the FIFA Council, UEFA, other confederations or any of FIFA’s 211 member associations.
