July 13 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has said the world governing body will examine the possibility of expanding the World Cup from its new 48-team format to 64, possibly as early as 2030, which will be co-hosted by Morocco, Portugal and Spain with opening games in South America. With Infantino up for re-election next […]
July 10 – European lawmakers for the third time in two weeks have sent a letter raising FIFA governance issues, and for a second time demanding that FIFA investigate its president, Gianni Infantino. On Wednesday, 72 members of the European Parliament demanded an investigation into Infantino over the suspension of the red card handed to […]
July 9 – As pressure continues to mount on FIFA President Gianni Infantino following a series of controversial incidents, non-governmental organisation (NGO) FairSquare has called on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) Ethics Commission investigation into an alleged breach of political neutrality. It follows FIFA’s decision to suspend a one-match ban for United States forward Folarin Balogun following a red card in his country’s […]
July 7 – In the biggest sporting scandal in World Cup history, FIFA president Gianni Infantino and US President Donald Trump conspired to free Folarin Balogun to play for the United States in their round of sixteen fixture against Belgium and undermine the sporting integrity of the tournament, but Rudi Garcia’s team wiped the floor with […]
July 3 – Belgium manager Rudi Garcia has rebuked allegations of racism following a controversial analysis of Belgium’s 3-2 win against Senegal at the World Cup. Following the final whistle, Garcia had said that “we know those teams…Towards the end of the match they lose their tactical structure.” His words prompted speculation and criticism that […]
July 3 – UEFA have removed Czech club MFK Karviná from participation in the 2026/27 UEFA Europa League (UEL) over its involvement in the match scandal that saw more than 50 people arrested by Czech police in March. UEFA said that its Appeals Body had ruled “MFK Karviná ineligible to participate in the 2026/27 UEFA […]
July 1 – Juventus have been hit with a €20 million fine and Newcastle with a €10 million fine for breaking UEFA financial sustainability rules over the football earnings rule. Newcastle had a further fine €3 million fine for breaking UEFA’s squad cost rules (reporting a squad cost ratio above 70% for the 2025 calendar […]
June 29 – Iran’s captain Mehdi Taremi labelled the World Cup “a disaster”, criticising FIFA and its president Gianni Infantino before his team’s exit from the tournament. The Iranians came within a whisker of progressing to the knockout stages: they smashed the woodwork and had a goal ruled out in injury time in their final […]
June 26 – Tottenham Hotspur majority owner ENIC is raising another £100 million of working capital to plough into the Premier League club, with most of it expected to go into the transfer market. It will be the second time within a year that the Lewis family has put £100 million into the club and […]
June 25 – The FIFA World Cup’s commercial gravity has never been in doubt, but fresh valuation data puts a sharper number on just how far the tournament has drifted into the financial stratosphere – and how closely that rise tracks football’s growing dependence on scale, expansion and global monetisation. According to new analysis from […]
