Of course, there is an open secret to Switzerland’s success: taxes and corruption. You are very generously dealing with international sports associations. There are only about twenty legal articles that are generally connected with the sports headquarters, many of them are not mandatory. In Switzerland, FIFA, UEFA and Co. Legally, non -core associations are considered instead of a company, that is, as an association of rabbits. And they are also taxation.
Since 2024, the Swiss radio and television report that FIFA had to pay a little more than 20 million Swiss francs in the men’s football championship in 2022. On the contrary, a net profit of more than 1 billion fungus in the period from 2019 to 2022. Private bridges were not even illegal until 2016.
What is in Switzerland? You do not agree with this. Despite the low tax rate, it is profitable. The study conducted in the period since 2021 postulated that Switzerland annually occupied 1.68 billion francs with international sports associations from 2014 to 2019. This is mainly calculated on the expenses of local workers, business -turism, such as housing at the hotel, profitable orders for the construction industry, and then control.
Profit is extremely unevenly distributed
However, this profit is extremely unevenly distributed; For example, 550 million annually go to the Lausanne area, that is, to a good third of the total income. There are also diplomatic and political advantages. In surveys, most Swiss Swiss islands are considering: the presence of large sports associations inside. Nevertheless, there is also a criticism of the politeness of Corrurmples, the costs of which are primarily associated with luxury hotels and magnificent buildings.
UEFA was founded in Switzerland, FIFA moved from Paris in 1932. Because football and Switzerland were closely intertwined early
Despite everything, Nasty Mammon is not the only motive, because tax benefits will certainly also be proposed by other countries. It just lives like a bandage in Switzerland. When the IOC moved to Lausanne in 1915 as the first major association, his arguments included the convenient location of Switzerland, the neutrality of foreign policy and high internal stability. War, revolutions or coups are not afraid here. Other Olympic associations were mostly left behind to have a closer wire for omnipotent IOC and the best cards than Olympic sport. The financial dependence has cited more and more associations with a blades in recent decades.
Football and Switzerland were drawn to
International football, a company that is completely independent of the IOC, also quickly found Switzerland: UEFA was founded there, FIFA moved from Paris in 1932. Since football and Switzerland were intertwined early. Historian Simon Engel of the Swiss National Museum reduced how football came to Switzerland wonderful early. This was mainly from narrow economic ties with the UK.
Modern male football can be discovered back in 1853, hardly later than in England. The first game took place twenty years later in Germany. Club names such as young boys, Bern or grasshoppers Zurich are still announcing the influence of the English language. Simon Engel writes that the political and economic climate in Switzerland was also favorable for football. Industrialization was relatively advanced. “The industrial era created a young and novice social class, which for free trade, cosmopolitanism and competition saw this and saw that these values were fulfilled in football.”
The presenter becomes an advantage of location
Temporary and social leadership has become an advantage of location for Switzerland. For example, not only the numerous Swiss pioneers founded in football clubs of southern Europe, including Barcelona, they gave colleagues from France, Germany and Bulgaria. Thus, Switzerland became the early point of European football. And almost logically his administrative center.
Nevertheless, the romantic highlight of the marriage between football associations and Switzerland at present, according to the visible, exceeded. After the struggle for power between the FIFA and the US judicial power in the cult photograph of FIFA officials, who were arrested in the Swiss Noble Hotel in 2015, the bed-state judicial system was forced to put the screws very gently for protecting the sheet. Corruption in sports associations is also currently a criminal offense in Switzerland and functional: inside it is controlled as politically exposed persons (PEP), if not particularly devotee. “If the false and misleading claims are still directed against FIFA, our associations -member may think that we are not welcome in Zurich,” the World Association said.
In 2024, FIFA allowed to move from Zurich himself with a change in laws; The office has long been leading offices in Paris, Miami, Jakarta and Singapore. In Switzerland, this briefly caused a click. Rumors about moving the main centers to Saudi Arabia made a round. It is possible that this will also happen during the global shifts of the authorities. But it is also possible that it was only a warning shot: if one day your hand no longer washes ours, we left.
