By Paul Nicholson
June 24 – The Greeks have made an attempt to plaster over the match-fixing crisis that has rocked the game in the country and forced a stand-off between government politicians and football’s governing officials. The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) has signed up with betting monitoring specialists Sportradar for a series of 120 match-fixing prevention workshops over three years.
By Jaroslaw Adamowski
June 24 – Polish construction company Murapol has unveiled plans to take over top tier club Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biala. The builder, which currently serves as the Ekstraklasa side’s main sponsor and owns a 35% stake in Podbeskidzie, is aiming to increase its shareholding to become the majority owner.
June 24 – Plans for AS Roma’s new stadium, the Stadio della Roma, are progressing rapidly with the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) having now been appointed to provide the security strategy and design.
By Matt Scott
June 24 – UEFA last night issued a defiant statement shrugging off a preliminary decision from a Belgian court that ruled against further restrictions in its Financial Fair Play regulations.
By Samindra Kunti
June 23 – In recent years Ajax Amsterdam has become subservient to the business interests of Johan Cruyff, according to a report in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Youth staff must follow a course at the Cruyff institute and Cruyff, rather than keeping the knowledge to Ajax, sells the secrets of the youth academy to foreign football clubs.
June 23 – Parma have finally been stripped of their status as a professional football club as the administrators of the bankrupt club conceded defeat in their attempts to find a buyer after Baseball legend Mike Piazza and Giuseppe Corrado pulled out of talks.
By Alexander Krassimirov
June 23 – With the future of CSKA Sofia now sealed in the amateur leagues but under the financial stewardship of Bugaria’s richest man Vasil Bozhkov, Turkish businessman Deniz Kiziloz (pictured) who several times tried to start negotiations with the club, said he now intends to invest in another Bulgarian club – Lokomotiv Plovdiv.
By Mark Baber
June 23 – The Ukrainian Football Federation (FFU) is to set up a working group to examine the idea of reviving ‘Tavria’ the formerly top flight Ukrainian club based in Simferopol, Crimea, which was disbanded and replaced by a new club ‘TSK’ in the hope of playing in the Russian Leagues.
By Matt Scott
June 23 – Insideworldfootball has conducted an exclusive 10-year analysis of UEFA’s official club rankings for the top-five or -six clubs in the big five European leagues, showing where each of Europe’s biggest club brands stands.
By Alexander Krassimirov
June 22 – The saga over the future of the Bulgaria’s CSKA Sofia has finally ended with the club suffering a similar the fate to that of Scottish giants Glasgow Rangers being relegated three divisions. CSKA will start next season in Bulgaria’s amateur leagues in the ‘A’ Regional group.
By Mark Baber
June 19 – Despite concerns expressed in the Italian media that Sampdoria might be excluded from European competitions next season, the club has been included on UEFA’s list of participants for the 2015-16 competition.
By Matt Scott
June 19 – Olympiacos’s owner Evangelos ‘Vangelis’ Marinakis must step down as president of the club after a seven-hour plea hearing at an Athens court on Thursday in which he was accused of running a racketeering and match-fixing ring in Greek football.
By Mark Baber
June 18 – Amendments to the community empowerment bill, proposed by the Scottish Green party, were supported by members of the Scottish Parliament yesterday evening, opening the way for fan groups to buy their clubs if they fall into financial difficulties, and perhaps even to be granted a general “right to buy”.
By Matt Scott
June 18 – Olympiacos’s president Evangelos ‘Vangelis’ Marinakis is due in court today to enter his plea in the match-fixing scandal gripping Greek football.
By Matt Scott
June 17 – UEFA’s Ethics and Disciplinary Inspector has recommended the inclusion of a club under criminal investigation for match fixing into next season’s Europa League competition, Insideworldfootball can reveal.