Tarik Shamel

Tarik is the Head of Integrity at The Football Association. He is responsible for overseeing all integrity matters concerning on and off-field misconduct in English professional football including on-field disciplinary matters, crowd misconduct, betting, match-fixing, anti-doping, discrimination, public comment, financial misconduct, and intermediary breaches.

Tarik is a practicing solicitor and joined The FA in 2004. Since then, he has played an integral role in the development of The FA’s policies and practices and leads on integrity policy in football stakeholder forums.

Aside from being The FA’s Integrity Officer, he is also a UEFA Match Delegate and mentor. Tarik is a disciplinary panel member for other sports and regularly sits on Independent Tribunals for the WPBSA