FIFA releases disciplinary and ethics report Pt 1

Football Clubs failing to pay a debt owed to another club, FIFA or another party was the most common football misdemeanour heard before FIFA's Disciplinary Committee over the last financial year, according to statistics released today.

These results were detailed by FIFA today who released its annual report on the activities of its independent judicial bodies, the Disciplinary, Appeal and Ethics Committees.

The report breakdowns the over 1,000 cases dealt with by FIFA's judicial bodies over the COVID-19 affected period between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021. 856 of these cases were dealt with by the Disciplinary Committee and the remainder by the Ethics and Appeal Committees.

Part 1 of this article series reports on the most common issues and key decisions of the Disciplinary Committee.