Launched on 4 June 2026 in Record, Portugal’s leading sports newspaper, SIGA’s weekly opinion column Linha da Frente (Front Line, in Portuguese) provides a dedicated platform to address issues at the heart of SIGA’s global agenda, including Sport Integrity, good governance, transparency, accountability, financial integrity, sports betting integrity, sustainability, youth development and protection, and the future of sport.
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From Vision to Action: A Month for Sport Integrity
By Nuno Perestrelo
Senior Director of Communications, Media & Events, SIGA
November marks the second edition of Sport Integrity Action Month, a SIGA initiative designed to place best practices for building a sport ecosystem founded on integrity firmly on the global agenda.
The objective is clear: to mobilise the sector around one essential principle — without integrity, there is no sport. Good governance, financial integrity, sports betting integrity, youth development and protection in sport, sustainability, diversity, gender equality and, increasingly, the use of Artificial Intelligence are creating challenges across every geography and at every level.
The good news is that, for almost every challenge faced by one organisation, there are likely to be tried-and-tested solutions in a neighbouring city, on another continent or even in another hemisphere. These challenges are not unique to any one country, club or federation.
Through Sport Integrity Action Month, SIGA is inviting federations, leagues, clubs, sport sponsors, media, governments and fans — everyone directly or indirectly connected to sport — to step forward and demonstrate their commitment to sport integrity. To collaborate with others facing similar challenges. And to benefit from the experience and knowledge accumulated by fellow participants.
In previous years — first under its predecessor, Sport Integrity Week, and then, in 2025, as Sport Integrity Action Month — high-impact initiatives such as the Game for Integrity, organised by São Paulo FC together with SIGA; the Journey for Integrity, promoted by Liga Portugal; and dozens of other initiatives brought greater visibility to an issue that must be a priority for the sport industry.
Congresses, roundtables, digital sessions, anti-piracy manifestos, public commitments to integrity and other initiatives brought together experts from the different fields that make sport an increasingly multidisciplinary ecosystem. 2025 also saw the inaugural SIGA Sport Integrity Awards take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Last year was also marked by events across Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, the United States, Nigeria, Ghana, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, India, Australia, Spain, Switzerland, England, Italy, Cyprus and, of course, Portugal.
In 2026, the invitation is renewed: under the banner of a month dedicated to Sport Integrity, and with SIGA’s support, the aim is to bring together people and organisations that share a common vision and mission — to take our collective efforts further, ensuring that sport has a future and that this future is built on the highest principles.
Information on how to participate and register an initiative is available here.
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Previous Front Line articles
- Front Line Op-Ed: Sport Integrity – The Value of Trust (4 June 2026, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros)
- Front Line Op-Ed: The Fight Against Corruption in Sport Is Far From Over — And We Cannot Afford to Look Away (10 June 2026, Richard Weber)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Trust: Football’s Silent Capital (11 June 2026, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros)
- Front Line Op-Ed: The Trust Test (18 June 2026, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Fashion Has Joined Forces with Sport. Now It Needs to Help Make It Better (25 June 2026, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Integrity in Youth Football: Protecting the Future On and Off the Pitch (2 July 2026, Miguel Gouveia de Brito)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Digital Success, IP Protection and Sports Integrity (9 July 2026, Martin Bland)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Prevention Rather Than Cure: What the World Cup Leaves Behind on Preventing Integrity Issues (16 July, Paul Buck)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Separating the Wheat from the Chaff — and the Courage to Decide (23 July, João Paulo Almeida)
- Front Line Op-Ed: After the Greatest World Cup Ever, FIFA Faces Its Greatest Test (30 July, Emanuel Macedo de Medeiros)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Mentoring Beyond Careers: Shaping the Future of Sport (6 August, Laura Cordingley)
- Front Line Op-Ed: FIFA’s Democracy Needs a Firewall Between Money and Votes (13 August, Mohammed Hanzab)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Can the World Cup Be Privately Managed? (20 August, Fernando Veiga Gomes)
- Front Line Op-Ed: What If Governing Well Isn’t That Complicated? (27 August, Nuno Perestrelo)
- Front Line Op-Ed: The Liquidity Sport Lacks — and the Scrutiny Its Money Demands (27 August, João Paulo Almeida)
- Front Line Op-Ed: Why Sport Clubs Need to Work Together (10 August, Iain Lindsay)
- Front Line Op-Ed: The Human Rights Game – An Example from Argentina (17 September, Pablo Perel)
- Front Line Op-Ed: ‘Bets’, the Vulnerable, and the Temptation of Easy Politics (1 October, João Paulo Almeida)
ABOUT SIGA
SIGA is the world’s leading organisation for Sport Integrity. We are creating a whole new landscape for the sports industry by delivering independent global rating and certification for world Sport to ensure it is governed and operates under the highest integrity standards: The SIGA Universal Standards.
Funded by our Members, SIGA is a non for profit global independent organisation with one aim: To ensure the sport industry is governed under the highest integrity standards so that the values of sport are protected.
SIGA is the only organisation to bring together sport, governments, academia, international organisations, sponsors, business, rights holders, NGOs and professional services companies, from every region in the world, around a common cause of fostering greater integrity throughout sport.
SIGA is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, as a non for-profit association, and comprises of the following continental subsidiaries: SIGA AMERICA, SIGA ASIA, SIGA EUROPE and SIGA LATIN AMERICA.
For more information on SIGA, including its vision, mission and reform agenda, please refer to the website: www.siga-sport.com and FAQs.
To contact SIGA, please email: comms@siga-sport.com.