Football, Figc president Gravina has resigned. Buffon also leaves
Elections for the new offices will be held on 22 June
Key points
Gabriele Gravina leaves the leadership of the FIGC and formally opens a transition phase that will lead to the elective assembly on 22 June. A choice matured under increasing pressure - institutional, media and internal - after the third consecutive failure to qualify for the World Cup.
What happened on the 'day after' of the knockout with Bosnia hastened the epilogue: the explicit request for resignation by the Minister for Sport Andrea Abodi, the hypothesis of commission by the Italian Olympic Committee, the rift between politics and the federation, the climate of widespread mistrust.
Gravina's backward step
The formal move to resign, accompanied by the calling of elections, now puts a double track on the table: emergency management and structural redefinition. The government, through Abodi, has made it explicit that the issue is not only 'who' will lead the FIGC, but 'how' Italian football will be reorganised. Even the hypothesis of a commissioner - a solution that has already been used in the past - should be read in this key: a tool to intervene on knots that ordinary governance has failed to unravel.
The Figc Communiqué
This is the tense of the statement released by the FIGC: "At the start of the proceedings, Gravina informed the highest representatives of the Lega Calcio Serie A Ezio Simonelli, Lega B Paolo Bedin, Lega Pro Matteo Marani, Lega Nazionale Dilettanti Giancarlo Abete, Associazione Italiana Calciatori Umberto Calcagno and Associazione Italiana Allenatori di Calcio Renzo Ulivieri, that he had resigned from the position entrusted to him in February 2025 and that he had arranged for the Extraordinary Elective Meeting of the FIGC to be held in Rome on 22 June next."
During the meeting Gabriele Gravina then informed the presidents that he had made himself 'available to speak at a hearing on 8 April (11:00 am) in the Culture, Science and Education Commission of the Chamber of Deputies to report on the state of health of Italia football. There he will give a report on the strengths and weaknesses of the movement in the most complete and exhaustive manner possible'. In the afternoon, however, news was received that the hearing had been cancelled.
