governance

EASM 2012 announces Mark Pieth, head of FIFA's Independent Governance Committee, as a keynote speaker at the conference in Aalborg, Denmark at 18-21 September.[more]

In a report released today the Council of Europe sharpens it tone against FIFA and provides new information about the scale of the corruption that has affected the world governing body of football. The report includes the full...[more]

In a presentation given at the Crime and Sport Research Conference in Canberra, Australia on 23 March, Sport and Anti-doping Consultant Catherine Ordway discusses the threat of corruption in sport.[more]

Join us in the effort to make sports governance better. Visit Play the Game’s website for the EU funded project ‘Action for Good Governance in International Sports Organisations’ (AGGIS) to learn more about the project and to...[more]

As so often before, FIFA’s Exco avoided to make convincing reform decisions, but investigation into the past may become possible later this year comments Jens Sejer Andersen, international director at Play the Game.[more]

In a panel on Betting in Football at the Soccerex conference in Manchester, UK, FIFA's head of security, Chris Eaton, revealed that FIFA has put its whistle-blowing and amnesty programme on hold. Steve Menary reports from the...[more]

Though obviously weakened, Ricardo Teixeira maintains strong alliances in an unchanged Brazilian football system. FIFA Statutes say he must leave world football’s governing body.[more]

In a meeting on Wednesday, a committee of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe took further steps in fighting unethical behaviour in sport when it unanimously adopted two resolutions proposing actions for ensuring...[more]

Comment: Will 2012 be our year, asks the Olympic swimmer and human rights attorney Nikki Dryden on behalf of the stakeholders in swimming who are calling for more transparency, accountability and democracy in the top of the...[more]

Comment: FIFA and the IOC have recently wasted a couple of good opportunities to discourage minor and major crooks at the start of the Olympic year.[more]