Infantino regrets awarding him / Trump the first and last winner of the FIFA Peace Prize

Athletics revealed that FIFA may soon announce the end of the organization's peace prize.

According to Sports Three, the FIFA Peace Prize, which was awarded to Donald Trump for the first time in December 2025, may be archived forever after just one year due to widespread criticism and internal disputes.

During its recent meeting in Zurich, the Social Responsibility Committee of the World Football Federation reached the conclusion to investigate the continuation of this controversial award. The twenty-two-member committee is tasked with making the final decision and determining whether the awarding of the badge to political leaders will be banned forever, or whether the entire FIFA Peace Prize project will be disbanded entirely.

A decision that, if approved, will record Trump's name as the first and last winner of this title in history.

By disclosing and publishing this news for the first time, Athletic magazine says that the said award was given to Donald Trump last December, without the coordination and green light of the FIFA Executive Council and by the direct decision of Johnny Infantino.

On December 5, 2025, before the drawing ceremony of the 2026 World Cup, the president of FIFA presented this award to Trump and claimed that this annual award is given to those who seek to unite the people of the world through peaceful actions.

However, FIFA's decision, considering the policies of the White House and Infantino's unusual closeness to the American president, a few months before the World Cup, caused Infantino to face extensive and severe criticism in the world of football and even in the world of politics.

Of course, the Zurich meeting had other side effects that Athletic mentioned in its report. Five months before the FIFA presidential election, Johnny Infantino officially apologized for his controversial plan to hand over the business rights of this institution and faced protests from member federations.

The next FIFA assembly is scheduled to be held in Qatar in December. In this meeting, one of the strangest and most controversial awards in the history of the World Football Federation may be lost and dissolved forever.