FIFA Statutes 2024
FIFA Statutes, May 2024 edition, adopted by the Congress of 17 May 2024 and in force 60 days after the close of the Congress; the number of articles reduced from 75 to 68 and the system of standing committees fully redesigned, with competitions separated by gender.
| Adopted | 17 May 2024 — FIFA Congress |
| In force from | 60 days after the close of the Congress |
| Structure | 68 articles of Statutes (in 14 titles) + Regulations Governing the Application of the Statutes + Standing Orders of the Congress |
| Status | Current edition of this family on the site |
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 of national federations 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 published in the same document.
About the May 2024 editionChanges from May 2022
Under article 68 (Enforcement), these Statutes were adopted at the Congress of 17 May 2024 and came into force sixty (60) days after the close of that Congress. The number of articles of the Statutes was reduced from 75 to 68 and the titles of the document from fifteen to fourteen.
Principal changes from the previous edition
- Complete redesign of the system of standing committees — from 7 to 15 committeesThe list of standing committees was entirely rewritten. The previous list comprised seven committees (Finance, Development, FIFA Competitions, Football Stakeholders, Member Associations, Referees, Medical). The new list has fifteen committees: Finance, Development, Men's National Team Competitions, Women's National Team Competitions, Men's Club Competitions, Women's Club Competitions, Olympic Football, Youth Boys' Competitions, Youth Girls' Competitions, Futsal, Beach Soccer, Men's Football Stakeholders, Women's Football Stakeholders, Member Associations, and Referees.
- Removal of the Medical Committee and the competitions organising committee from the list of standing committeesThe "FIFA Competitions Committee" was replaced by a set of specialised competition committees, and the "Medical Committee" was removed from the list of standing committees.
- Separation of the committee structure by genderFor the first time, the competitions and stakeholders committees were constituted separately for men's and women's football — a structural change in the position of women's football in FIFA governance.
- Consolidation and renumbering of articlesWith the merger of articles, the numbering of the whole document changed; for example, the "Football Tribunal" moved to article 48, the "Court of Arbitration for Sport" to article 49, and the enforcement article from 75 to 68. When citing articles of the Statutes, attention to the year of the edition is essential.
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 rather than to national courts all 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.