May 5 – They reportedly cut their wage bill by 15%, were not predicted even to make the top four yet have now won their first Scudetto for 33 years with an insurmountable 16-point lead and five games still to play.
May 5 – UEFA has ruled out the use of foreign referees in Greek Super League playoff matches over fears for their safety after a series of incidents. The decision was announced by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, who sent a letter to Panagiotis Baltakos,president of Hellenic Football, expressing his concern.
May 5 – Controversial Roma boss Jose Mourinho, rarely out of the news wherever he manages, wore a secret hidden microphone to “protect” himself against “the worst referee I have met in my life” during his side’s 1-1 draw with Monza earlier this week.
May 4 – Lionel Messi’s time at Paris St-Germain is over following an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia for which he was fined and suspended for two weeks.
May 4 – Only four clubs from Montenegro have been granted a license for next year’s European club tournaments. As many as nine clubs submitted documents for licensing, but most of them failed to meet the financial requirements, announced the Montenegro football federation (FSCG).
May 4 – The draw for the group stage of the inaugural UEFA Women’s Nations League 2023/24 saw 51 of UEFA’s 55 nations in the pot.
May 3 – Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris St-Germain for two weeks and will be fined after an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia.
May 3 – Bulgarian champion club Ludogorets Razgrad has sent an open letter to the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU), the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Youth and Sports calling for action over the fan disturbances at their derby match against CSKA at the Bulgarian Army Stadium on Sunday.
May 2 – UEFA have taken a step further in their proposed rethink of their financial sustainability rules with the creation of a Working Group that will look at ‘squad cost control’ (essentially the issue of wage caps) as well as how transfer fees are accounted for by clubs.
May 2 – Bulgaria’s CSKA Sofia has unveiled its plans for the reconstruction of the Bulgarian Army stadium.
May 2 – Wolfsburg’s Pauline Bremer scored an extra-time winner to send her club to the final of the Women’s Champions League and break Arsenal’s hearts in front of an English record crowd for a women’s club game of 60,063. Wolfsburg now face Barcelona in the final.
By Matt Scott
April 28 – Greek Super League football is heading for what looks like a crunch title six-pointer on Sunday under a cloud of corruption slurs, following allegations of multiple assaults on match officials.
April 28 – Barcelona reached its third straight Women’s Champions League final after a 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Thursday in front of more than 72,000 fans at Camp Nou Stadium.
April 27 – Players will “rightly be angry” about UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin proposing a salary cap in European football, according to the head of England’s Professional Footballers’ Association.
April 26 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin wants a salary cap to be introduced across European football to restore competitive balance and says clubs agree with the idea.