By Emily Goddard
December 11 – Christine Sinclair, who led Canada’s women’s football team to a bronze medal at the London 2012 Olympics – the team’s first podium finish since 1936 – has been named the winner of the 2012 Lou Marsh Award.
By Andrew Warshaw
December 5 – Two months after its first meeting, the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football’s (CONCACAF) new integrity committee, set up to clean up the body after an unsavoury period of blood-letting, is beginning getting to grips with the misdemeanours of the past.
By Andrew Warshaw
December 4 – Former national team general manager Cheryl Bailey has been appointed executive director of the new United States women’s league that begins next spring – the third attempt at trying to create a successful model.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 26 – The fallout from former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner’s resignation over last year’s cash-for-votes scandal shows no sign of abating.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 22 – After two previous failed attempts, another professional women’s soccer league will be launched in the United States next spring.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 8 – Former Trinidad and Tobago Football Federation (TTFF) first vice-president Raymond Tim Kee looks set to be appointed the federation’s new President on Sunday (November 11) after the only other candidate Colin Murray pulled out.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 31 – Jamaican officials are heading to England to try to sign up as many players as possible in an attempt to qualify for the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup.
By Duncan Mackay
October 30 – Former Blackpool and Torquay United player Tom Sermanni is to take over as coach of the United States Olympic gold medal winning women’s football team, it was announced today.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 26 – Canadian skipper Christine Sinclair has been nominated for FIFA’s Women’s World player of the Year despite being banned by world football’s governing body.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 25 – Guatemala is the latest country to become embroiled in match-fixing, with three players banned for life by FIFA.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – Three Cuban footballers who vanished just before a World Cup qualifying match against Canada have defected, FIFA has confirmed.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 15 – The Canadian Government has waded into the dispute over the country’s women’s team skipper Christine Sinclair after she was banned by FIFA for unsporting behaviour.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football conference at Stamford Bridge in London
October 12 – Major League Soccer (MLS) Commissioner Don Garber says he disapproves of loaning players to European clubs in the off-season as he tries to enhance the credibility of the game in the United States.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 12 – Disgraced former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, who resigned from football in the wake of last year’s cash-for-votes scandal but is still a prominent politician in his native Trinidad and Tobago as National Security Minister, is once again under the spotlight – this time for allegedly exploiting his country’s own federation.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 11 – Jeffrey Webb, President of the Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF), was forced to pull out of the Leaders in Football conference in London when he fell ill on his transatlantic flight.