The NFF filed two complaints on Tuesday, one with FIFA's Ethics Committee and another with the Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee (GACC). The first filing asks the Ethics Committee to examine Infantino's conduct for potential breaches of FIFA's Code of Ethics. The second asks whether FIFA's governance, financial oversight, internal controls and decision-making processes have worked as intended.
The complaints centre on three matters: Infantino's aborted FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors; the lifting of US forward Folarin Balogun's suspension at the 2026 World Cup after an intervention by US President Donald Trump; and FIFA's awarding of a so-called "Peace Prize" to Trump.
Lise Klaveness, the NFF's president and a longtime critic of Infantino, told British media that Trump was the common thread linking the three issues. The venture capital firm of Josh Kushner, brother of Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, was to be the chief investor in the FFE plan.
Infantino's proposal, launched shortly after this year's World Cup cohosted by Canada, Mexico and the US in July, would have allowed private investors to acquire stakes in a company created under the FFE initiative. A backlash followed, and Infantino made a humiliating climbdown within days.
Klaveness said the FFE plan was a governance issue but was connected to the other two cases through conflict of interest and potential abuse of position.