October 21 – Next month Qatar will host the U17 (Boys) World Cup at the Aspire Zone Complex in Doha (November 19 – December 13). Before that the Junior Premier League (JPL), will play a two-day tournament at Education City Stadium in Doha, kicking off this Friday October…

October 16 – Perhaps the only significant win for Infantino’s confederation opponents yesterday at the FIFA Council meeting was that they forced FIFA’s hand into more than doubling grants for the 211 member associations. At the FIFA Congress in April, FIFA president Gianni Infantino proudly trumpeted an increase…

October 16 – FIFA president Gianni Infantino has survived a grilling over his much-maligned World Cup privatisation plans by the FIFA Council, cementing, for now, his position at the helm of the world federation.  On Thursday, after months of global governance turmoil over the abandoned FIFA Forward Enterprise…

October 14 – FIFA has bowed to pressure from UEFA and Concacaf presidents Aleksander Ceferin and Victor Montagliani, and has put forward a proposal for approval to the FIFA Council, who meet tomorrow (October 15), that would see each of its 211 member associations eligible to receive $25…

October 12 – The Eredivisie has opened the season with record crowds and its strongest early-season television figures, giving the Dutch top flight an encouraging start to a new media cycle. After seven rounds, average attendance stands at 20,251 per match – almost 700 higher than at the…

October 8 – Ahead of the FIFA Council meeting next Thursday in Zurich, UEFA’s member associations, meeting in Berlin yesterday (Thursday), have outlined a set of reform proposals that hit at the very heart of FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s leadership and FIFA’s basic governance. Following Infantino’s attempt to…

October 8 – Former Swiss national team and Tottenham Hotspur player Ramon Vega has said that he wants to have another run at winning the FIFA presidency. Vega began a challenge to FIFA president Gianni Infantino, a fellow Swiss citizen, in 2019 but failed to achieve the five…

October 5 – Concerning is mounting in Somali football over the upcoming Somali Football Federation (SFF) elections and FIFA’s refusal to date to intervene to ensure transparent and fair elections. At the centre of the growing controversy is SFF president Ali Abdi Mohamed (pictured). Abdi Mohamed is a…

October 2 – Manchester City should face the “appropriate consequences” if wrongdoing is established, a spokesperson for British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said on Thursday, clarifying earlier remarks from the PM.  Burnham’s remarks came as club the formally appealed the independent commission’s verdict saying that the ruling contained “clear material…

October 1 – UEFA will distribute around €31.5 million to 611 clubs for releasing players during the 2024/25 Nations League, marking the first payment under its current Club Benefits Programme cycle.  The money is slice of the wider €244 million pot linked to EURO 2028, agreed under the UEFA-European…