FIFA Executive Committee
The FIFA Executive Committee was an institution of FIFA . The 25-member body was the highest decision-making body in international football . In 2016 it was replaced by the FIFA Council.
Composition and tasks
The FIFA Executive Committee comprised 25 members from 2013 to 2016 (Art. 30 FIFA Statutes):
- 1 President (elected by the FIFA Congress)
- 8 Vice-Presidents and 15 other members (elected by the Congress of the respective confederation and appointed by the FIFA Congress)
- 1 female member (elected by the FIFA Congress)
The term of office of the members of the Executive Committee was four years. It began after the establishment by Congress. An installed member of the Executive Committee could only be removed from office by the FIFA Congress or the Congress of the respective confederation. The FIFA Congress also had the opportunity to elect co-opted members without voting rights.
The confederations had the following seats:
- CONMEBOL : Vice President (1) Members (2)
- AFC : Vice President (1) Members (3)
- UEFA : Vice-Presidents (3) Members (5)
- CAF : Vice President (1) Members (3)
- CONCACAF : Vice President (1) Members (2)
- OFC Vice President: (1) Members (-)
The Executive Committee met at least twice a year. It determined the venues and dates and the formats of the competitions organized by FIFA. The committee appointed the chairpersons, vice-chairpersons and members of all standing committees, with the exception of the Audit and Compliance Committee, elected by the FIFA Congress, and the FIFA delegates to the International Football Association Board . It also appointed and dismissed the general secretary. The President had the sole right to propose.
Members January to February 2016
history
Executive members had been in office for an average of ten years in 2010. In May 2012, Lydia Nsekera , President of the National Football Association of Burundi , was elected to the Executive Committee at the 62nd FIFA Congress .
There have been thirteen changes on the FIFA Executive Committee since 2011. Franz Beckenbauer (Germany) and Junji Ogura (Japan) waived re-election in 2011. Geoff Thompson (England) and Chung Mong-joon (South Korea) were not nominated for the FIFA Executive Committee in the same year. Senior Vice President Julio Grondona passed away in 2014 after serving on the committee for 26 years.
Eight resignations were related to allegations of corruption :
- In October 2010 the two members of the FIFA Executive Committee, Reynald Temarii (Tahiti) and Amos Adamu (Nigeria), were suspended by FIFA on suspicion of corruption. According to a report in the Sunday Times , they were ready to sell their votes in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup awards . In November 2010 Temarii was banned from all football activities by FIFA for one year and Adamu for three years. Appeals to the suspensions were rejected by the FIFA Appeal Committee in February 2011.
- In May 2011, Mohamed bin Hammam (Qatar) and Jack Austin Warner (Trinidad and Tobago) were suspended on suspicion of corruption. Bin Hammam was banned from all football activities for life by the FIFA Ethics Committee in 2012 for buying votes before the 2011 presidential election . Jack Warner resigned from all international offices at his own request in June 2011 due to the allegations made against him.
- Ricardo Teixeira had to resign from the FIFA Executive Committee in March 2012 under great public pressure because of numerous corruption allegations. Together with his former father-in-law and long-time FIFA President João Havelange (Brazil), he had received around CHF 22 million in bribes from the ISL . He avoided both criminal convictions and suspension by the FIFA Ethics Committee.
- Chuck Blazer waived re-election in April 2013 after allegations of corruption. Before the end of his fourth term of office at the end of May 2013, he was banned from any activities in national and international football for 90 days by the FIFA Ethics Committee due to an ongoing investigation.
- In April 2013, Manilal Fernando was banned from any national and international football activity by the FIFA Ethics Committee for eight years because of several violations of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
- Nicolás Leoz announced his resignation as a member of the FIFA Executive Committee and President of CONMEBOL in April 2013. He asserted personal and health reasons for this. According to the ISL bribery list, between 1997 and 2000 he was paid around CHF 1 million in bribes. With his resignation, he anticipated a ban by the FIFA Ethics Committee.
In 2016, the FIFA Executive Committee was replaced by the FIFA Council . This comprises 37 members and is made up of
- the president
- 8 vice presidents
- 28 ordinary members
together.
The President of the FIFA Council has been Gianni Infantino from Switzerland since February 2016 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c FIFA Statutes. (PDF; 357 kB) FIFA, July 2013, accessed on August 28, 2013 .
- ↑ FIFA Executive Committee . FIFA website. Retrieved June 21, 2011
- ↑ Executive bodies of FIFA , accessed on September 8, 2014
- ↑ Jens Weinreich: Blood is thicker than water. NZZ Online, October 20, 2010, accessed on July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ SID: Nsekera: First woman on the FIFA Executive Committee. Zeit Online, May 25, 2012, accessed July 23, 2013 .
- ^ Fifa reform process: resignations and smoke signals. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved July 23, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ FIFA: Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii. Focus, October 20, 2010, accessed July 23, 2013 .
- ^ A b Jens Weinreich: ISL payments: The secret list of bribery in world sport. Spiegel Online, April 28, 2013, accessed July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ FIFA: Chuck Blazer banned for 90 days. Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ The judicial chamber of the ethics committee bans Vernon Manilal Fernando for eight years. Retrieved July 23, 2013 .
- ↑ How the FIFA Council works. FIFA, accessed September 12, 2017 .
