Why Has Sepp Blatter Resigned as FIFA President?
Sepp Blatter had been elected for a fifth term as FIFA president on May 29.
The FIFA President, Sepp Blatter, resigns as head of football's world governing body, ending a 17-year tenure dogged by corruption scandals.(Complete resignation statement)
Earlier in the day Fifa's secretary general, Jerome 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.(Will not forget what UEFA did against me: Sepp Blatter)
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.(Platini's UEFA and Blatter's FIFA - Two squabbling lovers)
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.(Platini's UEFA and Blatter's FIFA - Two squabbling lovers)
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.(FIFA claims innocence in $10 million funds transfer)
November 2014
The former Fifa executive Chuck Blazer is reported to be cooperating with an FBI investigation into corruption at the governing body.(FIFA scandal deepens)
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.(Will not forget what UEFA did against me: Sepp Blatter)
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.
May 2011
The Football Assocation 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.
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 in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting contest to undercover reporters.
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.