Swiss gambling watchdog files criminal complaint against FIFA platform

October 17, 2025 11:05 PM

Swiss gambling watchdog files criminal complaint against FIFA platform

The Swiss Gambling Supervisory Authority on Friday filed a criminal complaint against football's world governing body, Switzerland-based FIFA, over an online platform for trading digital football collectibles. The platform encourages users to collect and trade blockchain-based non-fungible tokens, or NFT, in return for special access to buy FIFA World Cup tickets. "During the investigation, suspicions were confirmed that collect.fifa.com offers gambling services that are not licensed in Switze...

FIFA faces Dutch class action over player transfer regulations

August 4, 2025 4:51 PM

FIFA faces Dutch class action over player transfer regulations

A Dutch soccer players' group is preparing a "potentially billion-dollar" Europe-wide class action claim against FIFA and other associations, seeking compensation over alleged loss of income due to restrictive transfer rules, it said on Monday. The Dutch Foundation for Justice said world soccer governing body FIFA's rules had affected approximately 100,000 players in European member states and the United Kingdom since 2002. The foundation added that consultancy firm Compass Lexecon had estimat...