The UK government has added its voice to requests from backers for Fifa president Sepp Blatter to leave with prompt impact.
Swiss criminal procedures were opened against the 79-year-old a week ago.
Sports Minister Tracey Crouch said: “The sooner Blatter goes, the sooner wide-scale reform at Fifa can begin.”
Major Fifa supports Coca-Cola, Visa, Budweiser and McDonald’s on Friday called for him to stop, however, Blatter said he would not venture down until 2016.
Coca-Cola said “every day that passes Fifa’s image and reputation continues to tarnish” while McDonald’s claimed it would be “in the best interest of the game” for Blatter to stand down.
Blatter is blamed by Swiss prosecutors for marking an agreement that was “unfavorable to Fifa” and making a “disloyal payment” to Uefa president Michel Platini however denies any wrongdoing.
In an announcement discharged through his attorneys on Friday, Blatter said leaving now “would not be in the best interest of Fifa, nor would it advance the process of reform”.
Football Association director Greg Dyke depicted Friday’s advancements as a “game-changer”.
Blatter was re-chosen for a fifth term as president of world football’s administering body in May, however, the race was eclipsed when seven Fifa authorities were captured in day break strikes at a five-star Zurich hotel at the solicitation of the United States.
The US later arraigned 14 present and previous Fifa authorities and partners on charges of “rampant, systemic, and deep-rooted” defilement taking after a noteworthy request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Blatter then declared he would venture down as president in February 2016.
He has said the 2011 £1.5m installment made to Platini, the head of European football’s administering body, was “valid compensation and nothing more”.
Platini, 60, has said he got the installment for function as Blatter’s specialized counselor somewhere around 1999 and 2002 and has composed a letter to Uefa individuals denying any wrongdoing.
The agreement portrayed by Swiss prosecutors as “unfavorable to Fifa” is thought to allude to a 2005 TV rights arrangement in the middle of Fifa and Jack Warner, the previous president of Concacaf, the administering group of football in North and Central America and the Caribbean.
As indicated by an examination by Swiss supporter SRF in September, the arrangement professedly brought about a multi-million-pound benefit for Warner’s organization.
In the meantime, a different Swiss examination is investigating the offering procedure for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups, which will be held in Russia and Qatar individually.
