FIFA’s ethics committee has refused to tell the Norwegian Football Federation whether its complaints against Gianni Infantino are being investigated. The head of the committee’s investigatory chamber, Martin Ngoga, said non-parties have no right to case information under the body’s own confidentiality rules.

“Only persons who are themselves subject to a process are considered ‘parties’ in such a process. Due to this, and because of the confidential nature of ethical processes, we are not in a position to provide updates about whether a process exists or what status any potential process has,” Ngoga wrote to the Norwegians, according to Dagbladet.

The refusal came after months of escalation by NFF president Lise Klaveness, who has emerged as the only football association willing to publicly challenge Infantino. Her federation filed two separate ethics tracks: one over Trump receiving FIFA’s inaugural peace prize at the 2026 World Cup draw in Washington in December 2025, and a second over Trump’s phone call to Infantino that overturned Folarin Balogun’s suspension during the tournament.

From peace prize to a presidential phone call

The first complaint, backed by rights group FairSquare, argued that Infantino had broken FIFA’s duty of political neutrality by handing a sitting US president an undefined award with no basis in FIFA statute. Klaveness laid out Norway’s position before the tournament.

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“We are critical of its creation. It had no basis in the FIFA Congress. It has no legitimacy, and it is clearly outside FIFA’s mandate,” she told GiveMeSport in April.

The second track followed a chaotic July. Balogun was sent off against Bosnia and Herzegovina in the round of 32, Trump telephoned Infantino, and FIFA’s disciplinary committee suspended the mandatory one-match ban for twelve months, as reported by PBS NewsHour. Balogun started the round of 16 against Belgium.

Klaveness filed within weeks.

“First and foremost, this absolute travesty should never, ever have happened,” she said in July, warning that reshaping disciplinary rulings around state leaders would “permanently shift the bright red line regarding exactly what state leaders are allowed to interfere with.”

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No other federation signed on

Norway is on its own. Klaveness has repeatedly stressed that she sent the complaint without company, with other associations declining to put their names on paper.

“We have received support from other federations, but we are sending this letter alone,” she told reporters at a press conference in June.

What the NFF asked FIFA for was due process in public: either investigate and publish the outcome, or explain why not. Ngoga’s letter closes both routes. Norway filed the first complaint in June, escalated with the Balogun complaint in July, and received the ethics committee’s refusal in September.

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