FIFA President calls for unity at Council meeting & stresses commitment to serving FIFA Member Associations

Zurich (Switzerland), Oct. 16 -- The FIFA Council convened at the Home of FIFA in Zurich, Switzerland, for its first meeting since the resounding success of the FIFA World Cup 2026, with FIFA President Gianni Infantino calling for unity and reiterating that "football is for everyone, everywhere," while also apologising for the mistakes made in relation to the withdrawn FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) proposal.

Following the exceptional and unprecedented commercial returns from the 48-team FIFA World Cup 2026, the FIFA administration presented the FIFA Council with a proposed initiative called the FIFA Surplus Solidarity Programme, which would use a portion of FIFA's reserves to more than double the level of planned funding for the 2027-2030 ...