The Congress, the Council and the secretariat

Module 8: How FIFA is governed

Lesson three covers how power is shared: the six confederations, the Congress that makes FIFA’s law, the Council that sets its strategy, the general secretariat that runs it, and the majorities that decide. Articles twenty-two to forty-one.

In this lesson

• Three bodies, three roles
• The Congress
• The majorities that matter
• Article 33: Composition, election of the President, the vice-presidents and the members of the Council
• The President and the Bureau of the Council