September 8 – With the UEFA Champions League kicking off tonight, Nielsen Sports has released new data showing the 2025/26 viewing audience hit 1.9 billion worldwide. This is the highest global reach since the 2017/18 when the UCL boasted more free-to-air broadcast offerings. Nielsen Sports says the numbers have driven a season-on-season Quality Index (QI) sponsor media value […]
September 7 – Last Friday the protests against FIFA president Gianni Infantino staying in post took to the streets with a giant billboard in in Times Square, New York, demanding his removal. On Saturday he made what is now a rare public appearance in Poland at the U20 Women’s World Cup. The fans’ billboard, reportedly […]
September 4 – Azerbaijan’s Professional Football League (PFL) has signed a partnership with the Johan Cruyff Institute, giving league staff access to specialist training in sports management, football business, marketing and leadership. Under the agreement, PFL employees will be able to take part in a range of the Institute’s educational programmes on preferential terms, alongside […]
September 2 – The Danish, Finnish, and Swedish Football Associations have written to EU commissioner for youth, culture and sport Glenn Micallef, expressing “serious concern” over FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s attempt to sell off the World Cup rights to a private equity funded business. They call “a broader European conversation about the future governance of […]
August 31 – The Dutch FA (KNVB) has called for a ‘new FIFA’ – to be discussed at a conference – and withdrawn support for current boss Gianni Infantino. Under his leadership, Infantino has long presented the world federation as ‘the new FIFA’ but in a letter, seen by Insideworldfootball, to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, […]
August 28 – UEFA has taken the first legal steps of bringing a criminal complaint against FIFA president Gianni Infantino, and potentially other FIFA executives, over its plan to sell off World Cup commercial rights. An application for an order to obtain discovery of information from FIFA (Americas) and FWC2026 US has been filed in […]
August 28 – UEFA has taken the first legal steps of bringing a criminal complaint against FIFA president Gianni Infantino, and potentially other FIFA executives, over its plan to sell off World Cup commercial rights. An application for an order to obtain discovery of information from FIFA (Americas) and FWC2026 US has been filed in […]
August 25 – Mikael Silvestre and Emmanuel Petit have joined growing former player criticism of FIFA President Gianni Infantino, arguing that ‘change is necessary’ amid the governance crisis engulfing the world governing body. They have added their names to the group of football legends that have reposted the ‘Enough is Enough’ message and includes Lucy Bronze, […]
August 21 – UEFA and Concacaf are reportedly looking at turning their open opposition to Gianni Infantino into something far more tangible – a new 96-team Nations League that would sit largely outside FIFA’s competitive structure. According to the Guardian, the two confederations have reportedly begun discussions over combining their existing Nations League competitions from […]
August 21 – Fan groups have demanded the resignation of FIFA president Gianni Infantino and reform of the world governing body. Following in the footsteps of a chorus of stakeholders, a coalition of fans from around the world no longer want to see Infantino in charge of the global game and have launched a new […]
