Supreme Court Says It Wants FIFA Under-17 Women's World Cup To Be Held

The Supreme Court on Thursday said that it wants the FIFA under-17 Women's World Cup to be held and the matter must be sorted out between the concerned authorities amicably. The court observation came after it was apprised that a meeting will be held this evening to sort out the issue. FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup is scheduled to be held in India in October 2022. A bench headed by Justice DY Chandrachud said, "We want the World Cup to be held." The bench also opined about not opening the matter for now.

The court observation came after it was apprised by Senior Advocate Gopal Sankaranarayanan about the meeting with FIFA today. "The CoA (Committee of Administrators) and the Ministry will meet FIFA. We are trying to sort this out," he apprised the court.

The court thereafter listed the matter for August 17.

The court was hearing the matter related to the new constitution of AIFF. Earlier the Supreme Court has appointed a three-member Committee of Administrators to discharge day-to-day affairs of the All India Football Federation (AIFF).

Recently the Court-appointed Committee of Administrators (CoA) had sought the initiation of contempt proceedings against former AIFF president Praful Patel.

In the contempt plea, the CoA submitted that after the top court on August 3, had recorded the consensus among the various parties to first conduct the elections to the AIFF in a time-bound fashion and then to finalise the Constitution, the State Associations have attempted to resile from the same, but indirectly.

"The evidence enclosed with this Contempt Petition would show that Mr Praful Patel who had been removed as President of the AIFF has consistently abused his position as Council Member of FIFA to orchestrate a campaign among the