Infantino Faces Fresh Questions Over Undeclared $1.76m Payments

FIFA president Gianni Infantino is facing fresh questions over his financial remuneration after an investigation by British newspaper The Times reported that he received an additional $1.76 million in 2024 from the company established to organise the World Cup in the United States.

The payment was not included in the publicly disclosed remuneration listed in FIFA’s annual financial report for that year. According to the figures cited by the newspaper, Infantino declared earnings of 4.274 million Swiss francs from football’s world governing body.

Around $626,000 of the additional funds was reportedly used to cover the rent of a luxury villa in Miami.

Miguel Maduro, the former chairman of FIFA’s governance committee, described the lack of public information about the payments as a possible breach of the organisation’s rules and called for an independent investigation.

FIFA’s statutes state that the remuneration of the president, members of the Council and the secretary general must be made public. According to sources cited by The Times, Infantino may have received similar or even larger sums in 2025 and 2026.

It remains unclear why the additional payments were not included in FIFA’s annual report. The allegations stem from the media investigation and do not, in themselves, establish that a breach of the rules has occurred.