FIFA Statutes: article index

All 68 articles of the May 2024 edition, by number and title. 5 are tested by a question on the practice page.

Numbers and titles as they appear in the official text. This is an index, not a copy: for the wording of any article, use FIFA's own document, linked from the study materials page. Free practice questions on this regulation are on the practice page.

I. General provisions

  1. 1

    Name and headquarters

  2. 2

    Objectives

    Tested by practice question 2

  3. 3

    Human rights

  4. 4

    Non-discrimination, equality and neutrality

    Tested by practice question 3

  5. 5

    Promoting friendly relations

  6. 6

    Players

  7. 7

    Laws of the Game

    Tested by practice question 4

  8. 8

    Conduct of bodies, officials and others

  9. 9

    Official languages

    Tested by practice question 5

II. Membership

  1. 10

    Admission, suspension and expulsion

  2. 11

    Admission

  3. 12

    Request and procedure for application

  4. 13

    Member associations’ rights

  5. 14

    Member associations’ obligations

  6. 15

    Member associations’ statutes

    Tested by practice question 3

  7. 16

    Suspension

  8. 17

    Expulsion

  9. 18

    Resignation

  10. 19

    Independence of member associations and their bodies

  11. 20

    Status of clubs, leagues and other groups of clubs

III. Honorary president, honorary vice-president and honorary member

  1. 21

    Honorary president, honorary vice-president and honorary member

IV. Confederations

  1. 22

    Confederations

  2. 23

    Confederations’ statutes

V. Organisation

  1. 24

    Bodies

A. Congress

  1. 25

    Congress

  2. 26

    Vote, delegates, observers

  3. 27

    Candidates for the office of FIFA President, for the Council and for the chairpersons, deputy chairpersons and members of the Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee and the judicial bodies

  4. 28

    Ordinary Congress agenda

  5. 29

    Adoption of and amendments to the Statutes, the Regulations Governing the Application of the Statutes and the Standing Orders of the Congress

  6. 30

    Elections, other decisions, requisite majority

  7. 31

    Minutes

  8. 32

    Effective dates of decisions

B. Council

  1. 33

    Composition, election of the President, the vice-presidents and the members of the Council

  2. 34

    Powers of the Council

C. President

  1. 35

    President

D. General secretariat

  1. 36

    General secretariat

  2. 37

    Secretary General

E. Bureau of the Council

  1. 38

    Bureau of the Council

F. Standing committees and expert panels

  1. 39

    Standing committees

  2. 40

    Expert panels

VI. Annual member associations conference

  1. 41

    Annual member associations conference

VII. Independent committees

  1. 42

    Institutional independence

  2. 43

    Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee

  3. 44

    Judicial bodies

  4. 45

    Disciplinary Committee

  5. 46

    Ethics Committee

  6. 47

    Appeal Committee

VIII. Football Tribunal

  1. 48

    Football Tribunal

IX. Arbitration

  1. 49

    Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS)

  2. 50

    Jurisdiction of CAS

  3. 51

    Obligations relating to dispute resolution

X. Submission to decisions of FIFA

  1. 52

    Implementation of decisions

  2. 53

    Sanctions

XI. Finance

  1. 54

    Financial period

  2. 55

    Auditors

  3. 56

    Membership subscriptions

  4. 57

    Settlement

  5. 58

    Levies

XII. Rights in competitions and events

  1. 59

    Rights in competitions and events

  2. 60

    Authorisation to distribute

A. FIFA final competitions

  1. 61

    Competition venues

B. International matches and competitions

  1. 62

    International match calendar

  2. 63

    International matches and competitions

  3. 64

    Contacts

  4. 65

    Authorisation

XIV. Final provisions

  1. 66

    Dissolution

  2. 67

    Transitory provisions

  3. 68

    Enforcement