Olympic Games: "Our proposal would be to have 16 women's & 12 men's teams" (G. Infantino)

"Football is part of the Olympic Games and in the Olympic Games, there are 16 men's teams and 12 women's teams. This is something that we don't like. We've been asking the International Olympic Committee whether we can have 16 men's and 16 women's teams. It seems this isn't possible. Our proposal that we have already started to discuss, would be that if it's not possible to have 16 and 16, then we should think about swapping it, meaning you have 16 women's teams and 12 men's teams at the Olympics in order to foster even more the women's football movement. I think we owe that to women's football. This will be a strong signal," said Gianni Infantino, FIFA president at the 49^th UEFA Congress being held at the Sava Center in Belgrade (Serbia) on Thursday 03/04/2025.

The FIFA president spoke after Milos Vujevic, Prime Minister of Serbia, and Dragan Dzajic, president of the Football Association of Serbia (FSS), who opened the Congress as hosts of the event, and just before Aleksander Ceferin, president of UEFA.

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