On Thursday night, in a Oslo boardroom, Norway's football federation made history. The Norwegian Football Federation (NFF) voted to call directly on FIFA president Gianni Infantino to resign with immediate effect — the first national football body in the world to do so. The trigger was Infantino's failed attempt to sell private stakes in the World Cup through his FIFA Forward Enterprise scheme, a plan that has collapsed into crisis and dragged football's governing body into fresh chaos. NFF president Lise Klaveness did not soften the message.

"We decided that there is no trust in Infantino now," she told The Guardian. "There has been one more step in a worrying direction every year, every part of the year. The trust is now gone for us, there is no way back for Infantino." A formal resignation letter is expected to be sent to FIFA within days.

Norway did not vote for Infantino's re-election in 2023, but Klaveness admitted her federation had still hoped he would deliver on the governance reforms promised when he first took power in 2016 after the corruption scandals that had shaken the organisation to its foundations. He did not deliver, and now patience has run out entirely. The NFF is also preparing a new complaint to FIFA's ethics committee on three separate fronts: the FFE investment scandal, the decision to award FIFA's peace prize to Donald Trump, and the controversy surrounding Folarin Balogun's World Cup eligibility. Klaveness is simultaneously pushing to recruit other major European federations to the cause, and several have already withdrawn their endorsement of Infantino in the past week alone.

The question hanging over FIFA now is whether Norway's bold move stays a lonely one or becomes a landslide.