FairSquare files ethics complaint over FIFA President’s repeated breaches of political neutrality rules

FairSquare has this week filed a complaint against the FIFA President Gianni Infantino with FIFA’s Ethics Committee. The complaint alleges repeated breaches of the obligation in FIFA’s Code of Ethics (FCE), which requires football officials to remain politically neutral. 

The FairSquare complaint, filed with the Investigatory Chamber to the Ethics Committee on 8 December 2025, addresses four instances in which Mr Infantino expressed his public support for the actions and policies of the US President, Donald Trump. It also requests that the Ethics Committee investigate Mr Infantino’s role in the decision to introduce a FIFA Peace Prize, the decision to award it to President Trump on 5 December, and the conformity of these processes with FIFA’s procedural rules. 

Nicholas McGeehan, FairSquare’s programme director, said:

“This complaint is about a lot more than Infantino’s support for President Donald Trump’s political agenda. More broadly, this is about how FIFA’s absurd governance structure has allowed Gianni Infantino to openly flout the organisation’s rules and act in ways that are both dangerous and directly contrary to the interests of the world’s most popular sport.” 

In view of the fact that the complaint pertains to issues that are squarely in the public interest and is based entirely on information in the public domain, FairSquare has decided to make the complaint public.

Photo: US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance attend a FIFA Task Force meeting with FIFA President Gianni Infantino, May 2025, Washington DC. Credit: Geopix