October 1 – Senegal’s battle to get their 2025 Africa Cup of Nations title back goes to before the Court of Arbitration for Sport on October 8 when their appeal hearing against the Confederation of African Football (CAF) and the Royal Moroccan Football Federation (FRMF) will be heard at CAS…
September 28 – Suriname moved to the top of Group B in League 1 of the Concacaf Nations League, while Honduras and Guatemala turned first round losses into second round wins. Guatemala’s eye catching 6-0 demolition of El Salvador was the biggest surprise of the round and Honduras also secured…
September 25 – Four of Europe’s Big 5 leagues – the world’s biggest domestic club competitions – have piled more pressure on embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino telling him reform must go deeper than “surface-level”, and under Infantino’s leadership “football has suffered one of the biggest abuses of power in…
September 25 – October 15-16 will see the debut of new sponsorship forum, the SPX Purpose League Summit, in London at Brentford’s Gtech Community Stadium. Themed ‘The Business Case for Purpose’, the summit will exploring how sponsorship can deliver measurable commercial, social and environmental returns – ‘purpose’. The summit is…
September 23 – Italian Serie A club, Lazio, improved on the previous year’s finances but still ended 2025/26 with a €10 million net loss, in a campaign that was difficult on and off the pitch. The Biancocelesti endured a transfer ban, poor results, a public spat between president Claudio Lotito…
September 20 – A new Championship adds fresh incentive to the promotion race, with the 2026-27 Concacaf Nations League C kicking off its group stage from September 23 to October 6, as nine teams begin their push toward promotion and a first-ever League C title. Concacaf has reshaped its Nations…
September 18 – FIFA vice presidents Alexander Ceferin and Victor Montagliani have sent a letter to FIFA president Gianni Infantino saying that FIFA could comfortably give each of its national association members an extra $10 million each over the 2027 to 2030 cycle without substantially impacting FIFA’s $6 billion reserves…
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…
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).…
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…