What Is Fifa For?

By Alan Tomlinson

Football is the world's most popular sport and truly a global phenomenon. As a result, it attracts huge sums of money from its advertisers, sponsors and broadcasters, including FIFA, the sport's international governing body. So, given its decidedly chequered history, the question of what FIFA is for is crucial to the game's future.

Examining the organisation's successes such as the explosion of interest in the women's game, alongside its failures and continuing crises over corruption and ethics, Alan Tomlinson asks: what will it take for FIFA to truly live up to its own mission of integrity, fair play and accessibility?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529245745
• ISBN13: 9781529245745
• Release Date: March 2026
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 160 Pages