Background
In March 2016, Asian Football Confederation (AFC) officials informed the Federation Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) about the Football Federation Australia (FFA) statutes that its Constitution was not complying with FIFA statutes in relation to membership and the voting power of stakeholders.
As a result of the referral from the AFC, FIFA found that the FFA to be in likely breach of the FIFA standards statute, which is the significant FIFA document outlining governance and democratic requirements for the sport’s national federations.
Consequently, “members of the FIFA administration were so concerned with the FFA statutes that they flew out from their Zurich headquarters for two days of meetings, specifically so they could restate their decision and demand the necessary reforms be made”.[1] The reaction from FIFA, was to review itself...
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