What FIFA is, and what it is for

Module 8: How FIFA is governed

Lesson one covers FIFA’s foundations: its legal form, its objectives, its commitments on human rights and neutrality, who writes the Laws of the Game, and FIFA’s power to step in when an association fails. Articles one to nine.

In this lesson

• A Swiss association
• What FIFA is for
• Human rights, equality and neutrality
• Article 7: Laws of the Game
• Article 8: Conduct of bodies, officials and others