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 […]
June 23 – The German Football Association (DFB) has launched a nationwide safeguarding campaign aimed at strengthening child protection standards across grassroots football, with the governing body targeting thousands of amateur clubs across the country. The initiative, titled “Mein Spiel. Meine Grenze.” (“My Game. My Limit.”), was unveiled on World Children’s Day (June 22) and […]
June 19 – The Irish FA’s (FAI) effort to shut down a growing row over its Nations League fixtures against Israel has been pushed back into the spotlight after it rejected a request for an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM), even as it faces fresh pushback from the Palestinian Football Association. The FAI confirmed that a […]
June 19 – Iran are preparing to lodge an official complaint with FIFA over what they describe as discriminatory travel restrictions at the World Cup, escalating a row that is threatening to overshadow the country’s participation in the tournament. The Football Federation of Iran (FFIRI) confirmed it will formally raise its concerns with world football’s […]
June 17 – The World Cup is now starting to hot up on the pitch. Match day six saw the entry of 2022 finalists Argentina and France, and their talisman Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe. Both rose to the occasion. It saw Erling Haaland make his debut at a finals tournament. He didn’t disappoint either. […]
By Samindra Kunti in Los Angeles June 15 – On the eve of their World Cup opener against New Zealand, Iran captain Mehdi Taremi and manager Amir Ghalenoei voiced their dismay at the difficult preparations their team has endured for the tournament. On Sunday, the Iranians crossed into US territory from Tijuana, Mexico, following a […]
June 12 – The World Cup, digitally marred by its rocket-fuelled pricing model, had thousands of empty seats in just its second game. Who saw that coming? Concerns over FIFA’s ticketing strategy resurfaced on Thursday after large sections of empty seats were visible during South Korea’s 2-1 victory over the Czech Republic in Guadalajara. FIFA […]
