Palestine’s Bid to Join the International Football Association Fifa 1945–98
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22172328 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Issam Khalidi (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Issue | 101 |
| Pages | 88 |
| Publication date | 2025-03-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Jerusalem Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2521-9731 • E-ISSN: 2521-974X |
| Publisher | Institute for Palestine Studies (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.70190/jq.i101.p88 |
| OpenAlex | W4414671919 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This essay demonstrates Palestine's long struggle to join FIFA, the International Football Association, and the challenges it faced during that journey of a half century.It shows the criteria that qualified Palestine to be a member of FIFA.Palestine's accession to FIFA in 1998 marked the beginning of a greater and more visible manifestation of Palestinian national identity in sports on an international stage.The essay identifies the benefits that Palestine enjoyed as a FIFA member, and highlights the Palestine Football Association's calls to expel Israel from FIFA.Palestine's membership in international organizations (like FIFA, the Olympic Committee, and others) paved the way for its acceptance as a non-member observer state at the UN in November 2012
| Citations per year | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |