Europe's Gianni Infantino and Asian football leader Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al Khalifa led the five man battle for votes ahead of crisis-stricken FIFA's landmark vote on Friday for a new president.
A FIFA appeal committee on Wednesday reduced bans against Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini to six years but maintained they were still guilty of ethics breaches.
FIFA presidential favourites Gianni Infantino and Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa embarked on a final scramble for votes Wednesday ahead of the election to lead world football's scandal-tainted governing body.
FIFA presidential contender Prince Ali bin al Hussein has called on the international sport tribunal to suspend Friday's FIFA presidential election because of the voting arrangements, his lawyers said.
The head of a British parliamentary delegation on a fact-finding visit to Qatar said Friday the World Cup 2022 hosts had made "progress" on the issue of workers' welfare.
FIFA's ethics watchdog imposed a warning and 7,000 Swiss franc ($7,055) fine on German soccer legend Franz Beckenbauer for stonewalling an investigation.
FIFA's disgraced president Sepp Blatter returned to the headquarters of world football's governing on body to face an appeals committee he hopes will overturn his eight-year ban from the sport.
FIFA presidential candidate Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifa plans to keep the world soccer body’s headquarters in Zurich and retain the name “FIFA” if he wins the race for the game’s top job later this month.
Former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke became the latest high-profile soccer official to be sidelined from the sport when he was banned for 12 years after causing "considerable financial" damage to soccer's governing body.
Some national teams have been given unfavourable competition fixtures for failing to toe the political line inside soccer's world governing body, the Jordanian candidate to become its next president said on Thursday.
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) said yesterday it was backing Sheikh Salman bin Ebrahim al-Khalifah of Bahrain as its candidate to succeed Sepp Blatter as president of world body FIFA.
FIFA presidential frontrunner Sheikh Salman Bin Ebrahim Al-Khalifa says that only he or Europe's Gianni Infantino can win the race to become FIFA's next president.
