The FIFA Files
Open Source NetworkEvery World Cup ends with a trophy. This one started with an indictment.
The FIFA Files is an investigative podcast from Open Source Network. Across 40 episodes, we use the documents — court filings, leaked emails, regulator reports — to tell the full story of how FIFA was bought, sold, prosecuted, and partly let off the hook over the past fifteen years. From the Baur au Lac arrests to the Garcia... more
| Publishes | Daily | Episodes | 13 | Founded | 3 months ago |
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| Categories | SoccerNewsNews CommentarySports | ||||
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By the end of 2017 — when the full Garcia Report was released, when the Sunday Times had been publishing for three years, when seven FIFA officials had been led out of a Zurich hotel under bedsheets — the case for institutional action was as clear as... more
The other envelope opened on 2 December 2010. Russia. The 2018 World Cup. The investigation that followed ran into something it had not encountered on the Qatari side: the physical destruction of the bid's primary records. Garcia's investigators were... more
To deliver what the bid book promised — twelve stadiums, a metro, an airport expansion, a new port, hundreds of thousands of hotel rooms — Qatar imported a workforce. By 2017, more than two million migrants were in the country, outnumbering Qatari na... more
Episode 7 was the cash. This is everything that wasn't cash. The Aspire Academy in Doha, founded in 2004 with a $2.4 billion endowment. Football Dreams scouting programmes in seventeen countries — many of them, by 2010, with FIFA Executive Committee ... more
2 December 2010. A windowless conference room inside the Messe Zurich. Twenty-two men, secret paper ballots, two World Cups awarded in a single afternoon. Russia 2018. Qatar 2022. Bill Clinton in the audience expecting the United States to win — and,... more
Mohamed bin Hammam was the most senior Qatari in world football. Member of the FIFA Executive Committee. President of the Asian Football Confederation. In 2014, the Sunday Times obtained millions of secret documents from his offices — emails, bank st... more
February 2009. The State of Qatar — population 1.7 million, of whom 280,000 are Qatari nationals — announces it intends to host the largest sporting event on earth. Its national team has never qualified for a World Cup. Its top domestic league plays ... more
A briefcase. A hotel room. An envelope slid under a door. This is how the biggest deals in world football have been done for thirty years — not in boardrooms, but in back channels. This episode follows the money.
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A meticulous, document-driven investigation series that uses court filings, regulator reports, emails, and other source material to unpack years of FIFA-related governance, bribery, and corruption. Across seasons, it traces how power and money moved through offshore networks, shell entities, and high-profile bids, spotlighting landmark events from dawn raids to leaked investigations and official reports. The show emphasizes transparency, corroboration, and a desire to hold powerful institutions accountable, with a strong focus on the mechanics of influence, governance failures, and the human impact on football's development and fans. A notable strength is its commitment to sourcing and verifiable evidence, often presenting a multi-episode n... more
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