As of 11 May, the European Commission's competition directorate (DG COMP, the Brussels-based body that enforces EU antitrust law) has still not registered a case number on the Football Supporters Europe and Euroconsumers Article 102 TFEU complaint, more than two weeks past the procedural acknowledgement deadline of 23 April . 18 days have passed since that deadline elapsed. A Member of European Parliament (MEP, an elected representative in the EU's legislature) question E-001336/2026, filed by Brando Benifei and 24 colleagues, remains unanswered.
Article 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union prohibits abuse of a dominant market position. The FSE complaint argues FIFA's dynamic pricing and resale architecture meet that test for the 2026 tournament. Procedural acknowledgement is not a substantive ruling; it is the administrative step that opens the file. Brussels has not done it.
DG COMP has no statutory deadline that forces a case-number assignment; the 23 April figure is the directorate's own published service standard. Missing it carries no legal consequence, only a political one. The 25 MEPs who co-signed Benifei's question represent five parliamentary groups across the centre-left and Greens; their parliamentary procedure question forces a written Commission response within six weeks but does not compel action on the underlying complaint. The forum that could review FIFA pricing before the 11 June opener is the same forum sitting on it.
