FIFA\u2019s plans to seek private investment in the World Cup have sparked a major dispute between football\u2019s governing bodies, with UEFA reacting angrily and European countries prepared to discuss a possible boycott.<\/p>\n
FIFA declared on Tuesday that it was looking to establish FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), which would combine the operational delivery of its tournaments with the sale of FIFA\u2019s commercial rights, such as broadcasting, sponsorship, ticketing, and licensing.<\/p>\n
FIFA would raise up to $4.2 billion (\u00a33.1 billion) from outside investors by selling minority, non-controlling stakes in FFE, which it claims would be worth about $20 billion (\u00a315 billion).<\/p>\n
Further UEFA statement on FIFA plans: pic.twitter.com\/EgQSUob9B5<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 UEFA (@UEFA) July 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n\n Over $10 billion in \u201cfootball development funding\u201d could be provided over the next four years, according to the governing body\u2019s plans, which require approval from member associations.<\/p>\n However, the European football governing body, UEFA, makes releases.<\/p>\n The post UEFA hits out at FIFA amid plans to sell minority stakes linked to competition<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" FIFA\u2019s plans to seek private investment in the World Cup have sparked a major dispute between football\u2019s governing bodies, with UEFA reacting angrily and European countries prepared to discuss a possible boycott. FIFA declared on Tuesday that it was looking to establish FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE), which would combine the operational delivery of its tournaments […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}