Upcoming Football World Cup(s) face the prospects of a potential major boycott as tensions between the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) and FIFA heighten over the proposed partial privatisation of FIFA.

According to reports, UEFA is considering the option of abstaining from the major championships if the proposed plans put forward by the FIFA President, Giovanni Infantino, to sell a 20% stake of world football’s governing body to a private equity firm.

It’s understood that the initiative, dubbed the “FIFA Forward Enterprise”, which will act as a spin-off venture, is intended to be in charge of organising major global championships, including the World Cup, which FIFA says will generate Billions in revenue for the body, which Infantino notes will then be reinvested back into football, as per SkyNews.

UEFA, however, has hit back at such plans, noting that FIFA is a collective of all member states and federations and not for one person to sell off, Sky News reports. Adding that it was not consulted on such discussions.

Infantino confirmed the proposal after UEFA went public with its concerns over the news.

Tensions were further raised following a September 19 referendum deadline set by FIFA for Confederations to decide if they agree with the proposed venture, in a release on Wednesday. The statement, which noted that a majority vote would signal approval, attached a $40 million incentive for members who voted in favour of the move it goes through.

Hours following notice of the deadline, UEFA responded with statement of it’s own.

CONCACAF (of which Jamaica is a member federation) also expressed concern about being blindsided by such plans and the push for the move, reaffirming that FIFA is a collective of members and decisions of such scales with such wide reaching implication cannot be unilaterally taken.