FIFA's leadership meets on Monday to decide the date of a vote to replace president Sepp Blatter as a corruption storm inflicts ever worsening damage on world football.
The meeting takes place just two days after Jeffrey Webb, until May a FIFA vice-president, made his first appearance in a New York court to deny charges that he accepted millions of dollars in bribes for marketing deals. He was released on $US10 million ($A13.50 million) bail.
Webb is one of 14 football officials and business executives facing charges in the United States. He was one of seven FIFA officials detained in a raid on a Zurich hotel ahead of the world body's congress in May. Two days later Blatter was reelected to a fifth term but within four more days he announced he would organise a new election.
The 79-year-old Swiss, the most powerful figure in sport by many counts, is to announce a date for a new election after Monday's executive committee meeting. The vote will be held in Zurich sometime between December this year and February 2016.
Following some ambiguous comments in media interviews, Blatter will be pressed to make clear that he is standing down. He did not use the word "resign" when he announced that a new election would be held.
FIFA also faces mounting pressure to quickly start reforms and Blatter is also expected to announce what measures could be proposed to the special election congress.
Top sponsors, such as Coca Cola and McDonald's, have called for radical changes in the way the multi-billion dollar world body is run after many years of scandal and doubts cast on the way the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were awarded to Russia and Qatar respectively.
The US Senate also debated the FIFA scandal this week, highlighting the extent of the world football body's tarnished reputation.
Blatter could announce that measures such as limits on terms for FIFA executive members and greater disclosure of salaries of top officials will be voted at the Congress.
However, critics say this will not be enough to ease the storm.
Even FIFA's existing ethics committee called this week for greater powers to improve transparency in its dealings. It wants to be able to name officials accused of misconduct and to give more details on why a decision was taken.
AFP