Campaign to deliver 'biggest complaint Fifa has ever received' launches before World Cup

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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jun/03/campaign-to-deliver-biggest-complaint-fifa-has-ever-received-launches-before-world-cup

A quest to deliver the “biggest complaint Fifa has ever received” is being launched by campaigners a week before the World Cup.

With fans concerned over safety and the cost of tickets at the tournament, and complaints ongoing against Fifa from human rights organisations and football competitions, a class action-style complaint is calling for an investigation into the president, Gianni Infantino.

The “Reboot Fifa” campaign starts on Thursday and is being led by the advocacy group FairSquare, which has pushed Fifa over its governance since before the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Led by an advisory board of football activists and writers, including the historian David Goldblatt and whistleblower Bonita Mersiades, the campaign is “encouraging people to add their name to … what we hope will be the largest single complaint Fifa will ever have received about the conduct of its senior officials”.

The complaint will be submitted to Fifa’s ethics committee after the World Cup and will be an updated version of one sent to it at the end of last year, in which FairSquare claimed Infantino had on four occasions breached article 15 of the Fifa code of ethics, which requires staff to “remain politically neutral”. The complaint followed Infantino’s decision to attend a Summit for Peace held by Donald Trump and the subsequent award of the Fifa peace prize to the US president.

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