{"id":17683,"date":"2025-08-28T09:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17683"},"modified":"2025-08-28T09:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T09:04:13","slug":"india-faces-world-football-ban-for-second-time-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17683","title":{"rendered":"India faces world football ban for second time in three years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>India could be banned from world football for the second time in three years after FIFA and the Asian governing body demanded it implement a new constitution by October 30 or risk suspension.<\/p>\n<p>World governing body FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) sent a joint letter to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) president Kalyan Chaubey expressing &#8220;profound concern&#8221; at the continued failure to finalise and adopt the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Failure to meet this schedule will leave us with no alternative but to refer the matter to the relevant FIFA decision-making body for consideration and decision,&#8221; said the letter, seen by AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AIFF must regard this communication as binding and requiring immediate compliance in order to safeguard its rights as a member of FIFA and the AFC,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>The AIFF constitution has been in India&#8217;s Supreme Court awaiting a decision since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>A suspension would mean India national teams and clubs being barred from all international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>FIFA previously suspended India in August 2022 for third-party influence after the Supreme Court appointed a committee of administrators to run the AIFF.<\/p>\n<p>The ban was lifted a few days later, paving the way for the AIFF to elect Chaubey.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s top-flight club football is currently in disarray.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Super League (ISL) could fold over a dispute between the AIFF and its commercial partner.<\/p>\n<p>This season&#8217;s ISL kickoff has been delayed with thousands of players and staff in danger of losing their jobs.<\/p>\n<p>A rights agreement between the AIFF and the company that runs the ISL, Football Sports Development Limited, ends on December 8 and is yet to be renewed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The AIFF has been unable to come up with a revival plan for the ISL, which is usually played between September and April.<\/p>\n<p>Players union FIFPRO Asia\/Oceania raised the issue with FIFA last week.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India could be banned from world football for the second time in three years after FIFA and the Asian governing body demanded it implement a new constitution by October 30 or risk suspension. World governing body FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) sent a joint letter to the All India Football Federation (AIFF) president [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}