September 17 – New York, who hosted the 2026 World Cup final this summer, is ranked top in communications consultancy Burson’s ranking of sports cities worldwide. Paris, the world’s leading city for the previous three years, dropped to second followed by Los Angeles, London and Madrid. Burson’s annual report ranks the top 100 cities worldwide […]
September 14 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino and his legal team are still refusing to show any form of accountability to member associations, stakeholders or even the legal profession over his attempt to sell all FIFA’s competition rights to a private equity backed new business – FIFA Forward Enterprises (FFE). In the US Infantino has failed […]
September 11 – Moroccan FA president Fouzi Lekjaa has repeated his assertion that the 2030 World Cup final will be played at the new Hassan II Stadium outside Casablanca, despite FIFA saying that no decision has yet been made. Lekjaa made the claim at a political event in Benslimane on Thursday, saying: “The province of […]
September 10 – FIFA has announced its own ‘owned and operated’ ASEAN national team tournament will be played September 15 to October 5 and hosted in Bandung and Jakarta, in Indonesia, and Hong Kong, China. The controversial tournament has become yet another example of the unilateral decision making of under pressure FIFA President Gianni Infantino, […]
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 […]
