A planned anti-Qatari protest ahead of a match between Chelsea and Manchester United, the first major fan demonstration against the 2022 World Cup host, and the imminent publication of a Sunday Times book documenting Qatari political interference in world soccer body FIFA’s 2011 presidential election that returned Sepp Blatter to office at the behest of the FIFA president casts a shadow over next month’s FIFA election and is likely to renew debate about the integrity of the Qatari bid.

In a move to enhance awareness about and action against corruption in sport, Transparency International has launched a new initiative named ‘Corruption in Sport' that collects and distributes knowledge and promotes collaboration on sports integrity.

The fight against match-fixing could be repeating the errors of the anti-doping fight, says Declan Hill, who in this article compares similarities between cycling's CIRI report and a yet undisclosed match-fixing investigation.

Speaking at the UEFA congress in Vienna today, Blatter passed another opportunity to present his plans for a possible fifth term as FIFA president.

The final draft of the revised international charter of physical education, physical activity and sport is ready to be adopted at the UNESCO General Conference in November.

Since 2013, representative football teams playing outside FIFA have had the choice between two different umbrella organisations. Now the two organisations, N.F.-Board and ConIFA, are in a dispute in which the older of the two is accusing the newest of hi-jacking their idea.

Read the speeches held by Bonita Mersiades and Harold Mayne-Nicholls at last week’s summit calling for reform in FIFA. The Brussels summit also sparked yet another campaign: the official non-sponsorship of FIFA.

At a summit held in the European Parliament, a coalition of FIFA critics and presidential aspirants argued that an independently overseen ’FIFA Reform Committee’ must be established.