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FIFA Statutes 2007

Superseded2007
In force from
2007/08/01
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FIFA Statutes 2007 edition, adopted by the Ordinary Congress in Zurich on 31 May 2007 and in force from 1 August 2007; the title "Honorary President and Honorary Member" was expanded to "Honorary President, Honorary Vice-President and Honorary Member".

Adoption31 May 2007 — FIFA Ordinary Congress, Zurich
In force from1 August 2007
Structure81 articles of the Statutes + Regulations Governing the Application of the Statutes + Standing Orders of the Congress
StatusSuperseded — replaced by the June 2019 edition

What are the FIFA Statutes?

The FIFA Statutes are the constitutive document of the federation: they determine FIFA's legal nature and seat, its objectives, the conditions of membership for national associations and their rights and obligations, the position of the confederations, the structure of the bodies (Congress, Council, General Secretary, standing committees and judicial bodies), and the dispute-resolution mechanism, including referral to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. The Regulations Governing the Application of the Statutes and the Standing Orders of the Congress are also published within the same document.

About the 2007 editionChanges from the 2006 edition

Under the implementation article, these Statutes were adopted at the Ordinary Congress in Zurich on 31 May 2007 and came into force on 1 August 2007; the closing signature of the document likewise reads "Zurich, 31 May 2007".

Principal changes from the previous edition

  1. Expansion of honorary titlesThe heading of the section was expanded from "Honorary President and Honorary Member" to "Honorary President, Honorary Vice-President and Honorary Member".
  2. Separation of the "Judicial Bodies" sectionAn independent section entitled "Judicial Bodies" was set out in the structure of the Statutes (articles 56 to 59).
  3. Express provision on the admission procedureIt was added that the Executive Committee shall determine the admission procedure in specific regulations.
Note: This edition is the last of the "Executive Committee" period in this collection; the next available edition (June 2019) has an entirely different governance structure.

Who this document matters to

The Football Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran is bound to observe the principles of this document in drawing up its own statutes; independence from third-party interference, the holding of free and periodic elections, and the requirement to have recourse to the Court of Arbitration for Sport instead of national courts derive from it. For sports lawyers, the Statutes are also the basis for establishing the competence of FIFA's bodies and the legitimacy of their decisions.