Reasons While Sepp Blatter Resigned As Fifa President After 17years in Office

2 June 2015 The Fifa president, Sepp Blatter, resigns as head of football’s world governing body, ending a 17-year tenure dogged by corruption scandals. Earlier in the day, Fifa’s secretary general, Jérôme Valcke, comes under pressure after evidence emerges showing he was aware of a $10m payment from South African officials to the former Concacaf president Jack Warner, a payment described by US investigators as a bribe. 29 May 2015 Blatter wins a fifth term as Fifa president after urging voting countries to move on from the corruption scandal that burst into the open two days earlier. Live Sepp Blatter to resign as Fifa president – live updates After 17 years as president of Fifa, Sepp Blatter is standing down from his position Read more 27 May 2015 Seven Fifa officials are arrested by Swiss police in Zurich after a request from US authorities. The suspects are alleged to have been involved in a corruption scandal totalling more than $150m. Hours after the arrests, Swiss prosecutors open a criminal investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. Advertisement November 2014 The US lawyer Michael Garcia complains that his investigation into the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process has been misrepresented in a summary version published by Hans-Joachim Eckert, the chair of Fifa’s ethics committee. Fifa says the matter is closed. November 2014 The former Fifa executive Chuck Blazer is reported to be cooperating with an FBI investigation into corruption at the governing body. March 2012 Garcia is appointed as chair of an investigatory chamber set up by Blatter to examine the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding process. May 2011 Mohammed bin Hammam, the Fifa executive committee member for Qatar, withdraws his bid for the Fifa presidency over allegations he offered $40,000 in bribes to Caribbean delegates in return for supporting his campaign. He is eventually banned from football for life. Sepp Blatter to resign as Fifa president after 17 years in role Read more May 2011 The Football Association chair, Lord Triesman, uses parliamentary privilege to allege that four Fifa executive committee members asked for favours in return for supporting England’s bid to host the 2018 World Cup. They are later cleared. Blatter denies Fifa is in crisis and tells a news conference there was no case to answer over the four officials. He also says there was no evidence from the Sunday Times to back up its allegations that Issa Hayatou and Jacques Anouma had been paid to vote for Qatar’s World Cup bid. Advertisement December 2010 Russia is awarded the 2018 World Cup and the 2022 tournament is controversially awarded to Qatar despite concerns about high temperatures raised by Fifa’s own technical report. October 2010 The Sunday Times claims two members of Fifa’s executive committee, Reynald Temarii of Tahiti and Amos Adamu of Nigeria, offered to sell their votes to undercover reporters in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting contest. The pair are provisionally suspended by Fifa’s ethics committee, pending further investigations. Four other officials, all former executive committee members, are also provisionally suspended.