June 14 – England’s Professional Footballers’ Association has joined the Fifpro-led legal action against FIFA over the “overloaded and unworkable” football calendar.
June 14 – With the window of betting company sponsorships on Premier League shirt fronts rapidly closing, Wolverhampton Wanderers have become the latest club to cash-in with a two-year deal with DEBET.
June 14 – Spain have consolidated their position as the world’s top ranked women’s team, in the latest iteration of the FIFA/Cola-Cola Women’s World Ranking, assuming the kind of imperious dominance that was previously seen by the US.
June 14 – Amidst tight security, Euro 2024 kicks off tonight in Munich with the host nation desperate to rekindle past glories after three straight embarrassing exits.
June 14 – Manchester City have agreed a multi-year global partnership with JinkoSolar, a leading globalphotovoltaic and energy storage system supplier.
June 14 – The Albanian football federation (FSHF) has signed two new sponsorship deals on the eve of Euro 2024.
June 13 – On the eve of Euro 2024, Germany is ramping up its security measures with some 22,000 federal police officers on duty every day of the tournament and extra vigilance at borders and train stations.
June 13 – The All India Football Federation (AIFF) has demanded FIFA and the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) investigate Qatar’s controversial goal in recent World Cup qualifiers that ended India’s hopes of reaching the third round of the campaign.
June 13 – The English Football Association (FA) is to provide funding to the police to aid in the prosecution of individuals who abuse England’s players on social media at Euro 2024.
June 13 – Lionel Messi has ruled out playing in this summer’s Olympics for Argentina, saying it would be “too much” after representing his country at the Copa America.
June 13 – Improved clarity for fans over controversial VAR calls and zero tolerance for dangerous challenges by players, are just two of the areas that will be implemented by officials at Euro 2024 which gets under way in Germany on Friday.
June 13 – FIFA has published the first 24 Team Base Camps for the 2026 World Cup across the Canada, Mexico and the USA, and released a more detailed version of the tournament match schedule.
June 13 – The long-standing issues of VISA entry to the US for Cubans took a different twist this week with the Cayman Islands men’s team pulling out of a World Cup qualifying fixture in Cuba.
June 13 – UEFA is opening up a new sponsorship programme centred on commercialising its referees across all its competitions.
June 13 – India may have crashed out of AFC World Cup qualifying for 2026, but the second largest country in the world has a growing appetite for football and the confederation is keen to harness its vast population in the regional game.