FIFA Letter of August 5
FIFA Letter of August 5
FIFA Letter of August 5
Dear Sir,
We kindly refer you to our joint FIFA-AFC letter of 1 July 2022 which addressed the roadmap agreed upon by AIFF
and further participants to the meetings organised during a joint mission held on 21-23 June 2022. FIFA and the AFC
further reiterated our positions in our joint FIFA-AFC letter sent on 25 July 2022.
As per the said roadmap, the AIFF was to call for a special general assembly on the first week of August 2022 to
approve the new statutes worked upon with FIFA, the AFC and the Indian football community.
Unfortunately, we have been informed that the Supreme Court’s hearing held yesterday on the situation of the AIFF
allegedly resulted in deviations to the aforementioned roadmap. If this is considered to be true, it would irrefutably
jeopardise the mutual understanding which was displayed so far on the steps forward.
In this context, we would like to recall the AIFF’s statutory obligations applicable to all of FIFA and the AFC member
associations, including the obligation to manage its affairs independently and ensure that its own affairs are not
influenced by any third parties (cf. art. 14.1.(i) and art. 19.1 of FIFA Statutes in conjunction with art. 15.4 of the AFC
Statutes).
Bearing in mind the above, we kindly ask the AIFF to provide us without further delay with an official transcript of
the Supreme Court’s decision of 3 August 2022 by 17:00 hours Indian Standard Time on 9 August 2022. Upon receipt
of the said documentation and following its in-depth analysis, should there exist serious deviations to the aforesaid
roadmap, we would submit the matter to our relevant decision-making body for further considerations and possible
decisions based on FIFA Statutes, including the suspension of the AIFF and the withdrawal of the hosting rights for
the 2022 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in India.
We thank you for taking note of the above and look forward to receiving the AIFF’s response.
Yours sincerely,
FIFA AFC