January 22 – The Football Federation of Montenegro (FSCG) has announced that it is starting reconstruction of the City Stadium in Podgorica, used by the country’s national team.
January 22 – For only the second time in 40 years, a goalkeeper has been voted the 2024 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year. Alyssa Naeher follows in the steps of the great Hope Solo, who took home the award in 2009.
January 22 – UEFA will hold its ninth medical symposium in Lugano, Switzerland, February 4-6 with a focus on the evolution of football medicine in the women’s game.
January 22 – Last week it was announced that alcohol would be allowed in view of the pitch at an English football stadium. This pilot scheme, which is being conducted at Bristol City, Southampton, Birmingham and Newcastle is being carried out across the clubs’ remaining home league games of the season with some derby fixtures exempt, however, it is limited to the women’s game.
January 21 – Who says sport and politics don’t mix? Among the scores of dignitaries attending Donald Trump’s inauguration ceremony was FIFA boss Gianni Infantino who has admitted the pair share a “great friendship.”
January 21 – Belgian club Royal Antwerp registered losses of €12 million for the 2023-24 season, remaining reliant on owner and benefactor Paul Gheysens to balance the accounts.
January 21 – LaLiga has continued its foray into the digital age by announcing CoinW as its newest regional partner for Taiwan and Hong Kong. The partnership, revealed during a press conference in Taipei, underscores the ever-tightening bond between cryptocurrency and the beautiful game.
January 21 – A special committee in the Bulgarian parliament heard from the Chairman of the State Agency for National Security Plamen Tonchev and the Chairman of the State Intelligence Agency Antoan Genchev regarding the 10-year ban on Botev Plovdiv owner Anton Zingarevich from entering Bulgaria.
January 21 – Iceland’s Elisabet Gunnarsdottir has succeeded Yves Serneels as manager of the Belgian women’s national team with a contract until the 2027 Women’s World Cup.
January 21 – Talk about telling it like it is. It’s one thing criticising individual performances, quite another blasting the whole team.
But that’s what Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim has done, delivering a withering assessment of the side and suggesting it might be the “worst” in the club’s storied history.
January 21 – He was once one of the most coveted talents in the English game before his career and life took a downward turn.
Now former England midfielder Dele Alli has joined Serie A strugglers Como in the latest attempt to revive a vocation that promised so much.
January 21 – The Somali Football Federation (SFF) has continued with its regeneration of football in the country with the return of its Futsal Championship after a 15-year gap caused by the civil war and terrorism that plagued the country.
January 21 – With the 2026 World Cup only 507 days away, Local Organising Committees (LOC) are beginning to step into action, and one of the most active is in Seattle, and the state of Washington who recently announced that they will be partnering with nine locations across the state to host fan zones.
January 21 – Becoming a host city of World Cup matches often brings additional benefits beyond the influx of tourism to the local economy.
January 21 – The United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) played the first of two international friendlies this month beating Venezuela 3-1 at Chase Stadium in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.