Domenico Scala, a key figure in scandal-hit FIFA's bid to restore its reputation, has resigned as chair of the Audit and Compliance Committee in protest over a reform package u-turn passed at yesterday's Congress, claiming the independent bodies had been "deprived of their independence".

Gibraltar and Kosovo have become the 210th and 211th members of FIFA after the organisation’s Congress voted in favour of their acceptance into world football’s governing body here today.

Fatma Samba Diouf Samoura of Senegal has been appointed as the first-ever female secretary general of FIFA, President Gianni Infantino announced at the body’s Congress here today.

The FIFA Congress today passed a controversial agenda item which tears a hole through the governing body’s reform process as the ruling Council has been granted the power to dismiss the heads of key independent committees without consulting its membership.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino has warned the governing body’s 211 members not to betray the organisation’s trust after a vast increase in development funding for the associations was passed unanimously at the 66th Congress here today.

A delegation from Kuwait Football Clubs have been lobbying FIFA's Member Associations in an attempt to get their country's Football Association reinstated from a ban from world football's governing body which they claim has been "killing" the sport in the nation.

Canadian Victor Montagliani has been elected as President of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) with 25 of the 41 votes at the body's Congress here today.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino held a 90-minute meeting with members of his “Legends” team here to begin a process which will see the group of ex-professionals have “day to day” input into the decision-making at the scandal-hit governing body.

Gibraltar and Kosovo’s potential membership of world football’s governing body and the current suspensions of three associations top the agenda at the 66th FIFA Congress, due to be held here tomorrow.

Indonesia’s chances of FIFA reinstatement during Friday’s (May 13) Congress here have been given a boost after the country’s Sports Ministry agreed to lift the sanctions on their Football Association.

FIFA has called for the All Nepal Football Association (ANFA) to reinstate four sacked officials and threatened to step in by establishing a Normalisation Committee in order to address the organisation’s current issues.

There are no delays in the construction of venues in Samara and Kaliningrad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the head of the Organising Committee Alexey Sorokin has claimed here today despite the country's Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko warning there were "serious concerns" about the two stadiums.

Football’s lawmakers the International Football Association Board (IFAB) are considering introducing penalty goals as part of further planned changes to the laws of the game.

FIFA’s ruling Council has today paved the way for Gibraltar and Kosovo to become the 210th and 211th members of world football’s governing body after they recommended the Congress accept their respective applications.

The host nation for the 2026 FIFA World Cup will be decided in May 2020 following the conclusion of a four-phase bidding process, world football’s governing body announced here today at the end of the first-ever meeting of its ruling Council.