Reboot FIFA campaign launches with ‘class action’ complaint against Gianni Infantino

FairSquare has today launched a major public campaign aimed at serious reform of football’s world governing body, FIFA.

The campaign, titled Reboot, begins by offering the general public the opportunity to add their names to an updated ethics complaint against the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, for repeated and serious breaches of FIFA rules. 

The campaign is being launched one week before the start of the 2026 men’s World Cup. A tournament which has once again exposed FIFA’s dysfunction and the consequences of its deeply flawed governance model. FairSquare has long argued that FIFA’s structural problems cannot be fixed from within and that external reform is critical. 

“People are rightly angered and frustrated by a range of issues, from exorbitant World Cup ticket prices to FIFA’s offering of a Peace Prize to a man who then launched an illegal war on a World Cup participant” said FairSquare director Nick McGeehan.”This campaign is about harnessing that anger and redirecting it effectively to create the political pressure required to force meaningful change at FIFA.”

On 8 December 2025, FairSquare filed a complaint with the Investigatory Chamber to the FIFA Ethics Committee addressing  four instances in which Gianni Infantino violated article 15 of the FIFA Code of Ethics, by his expressions of public support for the actions and policies of the US President, Donald Trump. 

The Reboot campaign is encouraging people to add their name to an updated ethics complaint against the FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, for repeated and serious breaches of FIFA rules. We will submit the complaint after the 2026 men’s World Cup in what we hope will be the largest single complaint FIFA will ever have received about the conduct of its senior officials.

The complaint has been backed by The Norwegian Football Federation and its president, Lisa Klaveness, who have written to FIFA and called on them to ensure the complaint is handled properly and that the Ethics Committee’s decision is made public.

This complaint will be the first intervention in a long-term campaign aimed at FIFA reform. ‘Reboot’ will avail of the the knowledge, experience and commitment of an Advisory Board whose members come from a diversity of backgrounds and will provide advice, support and guidance to FairSquare.  

Reboot aims to: uncover hard evidence that links misgovernance to a wide range of serious issues, put that evidence in front of the policymakers who have the power to impose structural reforms on an organisation like FIFA; and put pressure on these policymakers by generating widespread support, including from the global football community, for reform.

A ‘rebooted’ FIFA would have a radically different structure and would operate under basic principles of good governance for the first time in its history:

• It would be open and transparent about its affairs, properly accountable to its members and the football community, and answerable to the figures in the media that have exposed wrongdoing over decades.
• The billions of dollars it distributes would be properly audited, and development money would go to the member associations that need it the most.
• Its commercial operations would be entirely separate from its regulatory and governance functions to eliminate gross conflicts of interest.

Photo: Trump and Infantino at the White House in 2018 Credit: Action Plus Sports Images