Chronology of corruption allegations directed against the ruling football body FIFA, after ethics committee statement Wednesday on its various investigations.
October 20, 2010: FIFA executives Reynald Temarii (Tahiti) and Amos Adamu (Nigeria) are suspended over allegations they were ready to sell their vote for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
November 18, 2010: Six FIFA officials are sanctioned over the allegations.
November 29, 2010: New corrution allegations against executives Ricardo Teixeira (Brazil), Nicolas Leoz (Paraguay) and Issa Hayatou (Cameroon).
Dezember 2, 2010: The FIFA executive elects Russia hosts of the 2018 World Cup and Qatar hosts of the 2022 World Cup.
Dezember 6, 2010: FIFA vice-president Julio Grondona of Argentina is accused of having received 67 million dollars from Qatar.
May 10, 2011: Former FA chief David Triesman accuses Teixeira, Leoz, FIFA vice-president Vize Jack Warner (Trinidad and Tobago) and Worawi Mukudi (Thailand), to have made illegal demands ahead of the World Cup vote.
June 20, 2011: Warner resigns from all football functions.
October 21, 2011: FIFA sets up commissions and calls in external experts in the wake of major corruption allegations.
July 17, 2012: Former US attorney Michael Garcia and German judge Hans-Joachim Eckert are named chairmen of the two chambers of the new FIFA ethics commission.
November 22, 2013: Blatter alleges that Germany and France put political pressure on executives because they have economic interests in Qatar.
June 1, 2014: The Sunday Times reports that former executive Mohammed bin Hammam of Qatar paid 5 million dollars to officials to ensure their support.
June 13, 2014: Germany's Franz Beckenbauer is banned for 90 days by ethics committee for not cooperating with them concerning bquestions on the awarding of the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.
September 5, 2014: Garcia presents his report to FIFA and wants it published.
October 17, 2014: FIFA decides not to publish Garcia-report in full.
November 13, 2014: Eckert submits his report and which Russia and Qatar are cleared to host the tournaments. Garcia objects to the report.
December 16, 2014: Garcia resigns after FIFA dismisses his objections.
May 27, 2015: Swiss police arrest seven high-ranking officials, including then FIFA vice-presidents Jeffrey Webb and Eugenio Figueredo, in Zurich as part of a US probe directed against 14 people. Switzerland says it is also conducting a probe of its own on around the 2018 and 2022 World Cup vote.
May 29, 2015: Blatter is re-elected for a fifth term as FIFA president.
June 2, 2015: The New York Times reports that US authorities believe secretary general Jerome Valcke authorised a 10-million dollar payment to an account controlled by Warner. The money comes from 2010 World Cup hosts South Africa.
June 2, 2015: Blatter announces he will step down at an extraordinary FIFA congress.
July 2, 2015: US authorities issue formal extradition requests to Switzerland concerning the seven arrested officials.
July 19, 2015: Webb pleads not guilty in the US to the charges.
September 14, 2015: US Attorney General Loretta Lynch says at a joint news conference with Swiss prosecutor Michael Lauber that there could be further arrests.
September 17, 2015: Valcke is released from all his duties with immediate effect in connection with corruption allegations.
September 24, 2015: FIFA agrees to give Swiss authorities access to Valcke's email accounts, after initially stating this was subject to certain conditions.
September 25, 2015: Swiss Attorney General announces opening of criminal proceedings against Blatter on suspicion of "criminal mismanagement as well as - alternatively - misappropriation" in connection with a contract with the Caribbean football union, and a disloyal payment to UEFA boss Michel Platini. Blatter is interrogated and his office searched and data seized. Platini is also asked to provide information.
September 29, 2015: FIFA ethics committee bans Warner for life.
October 2, 2015: FIFA sponsors Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Visa and Budweiser issue separate statements calling for Blatter's immediate resignation as president.
October 8, 2015: FIFA ethics committee provisionally suspends Blatter, Platini, Valcke for 90 days from all football activities. It also bans presidential candidate Chung Mong Joon for six years.
October 12, 2012: Former FIFA executive Worawi Makudi is suspended for 90 days by the ethics committee
October 15, 2015: UEFA at emergency meetings supports Platini but English FA withdraws backing of his FIFA presidency bid the next day.
October 16, 2015: German magazine Der Spiegel says the nation's bid committee for the 2006 World Cup had a slush fund from private money of then Adidas boss Robert Louis-Dreyfus, secured four Asian votes with it, and later paid it back via FIFA disguised as funds for a cultural event. DFB mentions a payment to FIFA which may have been misused but dismisses the allegations. But it dismisses bribery and slush fund allegations while FIFA says it will investigate.
October 21, 2015: Beckenbauer and Spanish FIFA and UEFA vice-president Angel Maria Villar Llona face a verdict from ethics committee after investigatory chamber hands over case to adjudicatory chamber. It releases nine names of other officials who are probed, including Blatter, Platini and Valcke.
