{"id":16923,"date":"2016-01-05T12:06:24","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T10:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/transparency.lt\/en\/?p=16923"},"modified":"2016-05-09T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T15:49:03","slug":"majority-of-football-associations-do-not-account-for-their-activities-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/transparency.lt\/en\/majority-of-football-associations-do-not-account-for-their-activities-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The majority of football associations do not account for their activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;15798&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>4 of 5 (81 %)\u00a0 football associations do not publicize their financial reports, 9 of 10 (85 %) do not publish any information about their activities,\u00a0a\u00a0research conducted by \u201cTransparency International\u201d Lithuanian Chapter reveals. \u00a0Lithuanian football federation meets minimum standards of accountability, but do not declare\u00a0their values nor their code of ethics publicly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Research investigated whether 6 confederations and 209 national football associations of International football federation (FIFA) publish their finances, activity status, activity reports and ethic codes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lithuanian football federation got positive reviews in 3 categories out of 4 \u2013 its website was lacking information about organization\u2019s code of ethics.\u00a0\u00a0Latvian football federation got all 4\u00a0points, while Estonian football federation publishes only its activity status and thus received only 1 point.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At the same time no single one of football confederations meets at least minimal information publicity requirements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The most accountable were football associations of United Kingdom, Canada, Denmark, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, New Zealand, North Ireland, Ireland, Norway, Portugal and Sweden. They performed best results\u00a0to inform people about their activities, expenditure and values.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The least accountable were football associations of Madagascar, Fiji, Haiti, Maldives, Libya, Mozambique and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTransparency International\u201d estimated how accountable are six football confederations ( The Asian Football Confederation, The Confederation of African Football, The South American Football Confederation, The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football, Oceania Football Confederation, The Union of European Football Associations) and 209 national associations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cTransparency International\u201devaluated information on the organisations sites in September \u2013 November 2015. Finished evaluations were sent to all organisations, they had a chance to review all the data and specify it if needed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">More about the results of the research can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/transparencyinternational\/docs\/2015_footballgovernanceleaguetable_?e=2496456\/31444500\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/1&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;15798&#8243; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; border_color=&#8221;grey&#8221; img_link_large=&#8221;&#8221; img_link_target=&#8221;_self&#8221; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221;][vc_column_text] 4 of 5 (81 %)\u00a0 football associations do not publicize their financial reports, 9&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15571,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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