The headquarters of the almighty FIFA, football’s world governing body, sit in splendour in Zurich, Switzerland.
It was founded by Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland over 100 years ago.
England, the masterminds of the beautiful game, joined a year later in 1905. And the international football federation has been expanding ever since.
‘Bigger than the UN’
Today boasting 209 member states, FIFA is an even larger organisation than the United Nations, which stands at 193.
FIFA rules the planet’s most popular sport with an iron fist. It’s estimated some 500 million people around the world have some sort of connection with football: from club managers, to players to fans and everyone else in between.
Respecting the rules
The organisation’s main mission is to ensure the ‘universality’ of the game, that the rules are respected and to stem the rise of independent leagues and championships.
