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FIFA

/ˈfiːfə/

FIFA proper noun: FIFA (International Federation of Association Football).

Proper noun (1)

FIFA

  1. FIFA (International Federation of Association Football)
    • In terms of viewing audience and revenue, the FIFA World Cup is the largest sport megaevent of its kind[…]2012, John Nauright, Charles Parrish, Sports Around the World: History, Culture, and Practice, page 127
    • After FIFA President Gianni Infantino called for automatic forfeits for teams whose fans have racially abused players and caused matches to be abandoned, the English Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) chair says fellow players don’t believe enough is being done to punish racism at soccer...2024 January 22, Thomas Schlachter, “There must be ‘significant consequences’ for clubs failing to deal with racism in stadiums, says player and union official”, in CNN, archived from the original on...
  2. (trademark) A series of association football video games developed and released annually by Electronic Arts under the EA Sports label.

Proper noun (2) capitalized: Fifa

Fifa

  1. Alternative letter-case form of FIFA.
    • Governmental interference in football resulted in Fifa banning Zimbabwe from the international game in 2022, while last year the United States imposed sanctions on Mnangagwa and other senior officials for corruption and human rights abuses.2025 March 20, Alex Brotherton, “Coventry elected first female IOC president as Coe beaten”, in BBC Sport

Origin of FIFA

Orthographic borrowing from French FIFA.

Words that rhyme with FIFA

Questions about FIFA

What does FIFA mean?
FIFA means FIFA (International Federation of Association Football).
What part of speech is FIFA?
FIFA is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce FIFA?
FIFA is pronounced /ˈfiːfə/.

Words near FIFA in the dictionary

  1. fiesty
  2. fietscafé
  3. fiew
  4. FIF
  5. Fif.
  6. FIFA
  7. fife
  8. Fife Lake
  9. fife major
  10. fife majors
  11. Fife Ness

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: FIFA (page history and authors); Fifa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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