November 5 – Lionel Messi says he wants to return to Barcelona, perhaps as technical director, after his contract with Paris Saint-Germain ends and he retires from playing.
November 4 – An English fan who racially abused Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka after England lost the Euro 2020 final to Italy has been sentenced to 10 weeks in jail.
November 2 – City Football Group (CFG) have reportedly opened negotiations to acquire a 20% stake in Russian club Spartak Moscow.
November 3 – UK football charity, the Football Foundation, has launched its new ‘Power Up Your Grass Pitch’ campaign, with the ambition goals of reaching over 7,000 ‘good quality’ grass pitches by 2024 and 20,000 by 2030.
November 2 – UEFA have hit Germany’s Union Berlin with a partial stadium closure for the antisemitic behaviour of some of its fans towards supporters of Israeli club Maccabi Haifa.
November 2 – Argentine striker Sergio Aguero will not play for three months after suffering chest pains against Alaves on Saturday, his club Barcelona have announced.
November 1 – Sportradar has signed a deal with UEFA to be the European confederation’s exclusive betting data distributor. The agreement also makes Sportradar UEFA’s authorised data collector.
November 1 – Inter Milan have ruled that Christian Eriksen, who was fitted with a defibrillator after he suffered a cardiac arrest while playing for Denmark against Finland at Euro 2020, will not be allowed to play this season.
October 31 – France’s Ligue 1 has reportedly shelved plans to play a regular season league game in Shanghai, China, next February.
October 29 – Following several recent incidents, the Swiss Football League are reportedly discussing whether to ban away fans.
October 29 – The businessman who organised the flight that crashed into the English channel and killed Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala on his way to sign for Cardiff City from Nantes in France has been found guilty of endangering the safety of an aircraft.
October 28 – Italian prosecutors have opened a probe into dozens of transfers involving Serie A clubs.
By Paul Nicholson
October 27 – Europe’s MEPs have called for more government oversight of sports and have made it clear in their opposition to any ‘breakaway leagues’ in a report adopted by the Committee on Culture and Education by 29 votes to 1 with one 1 abstention.
October 27 – Two key organisations in the running of European football have announced a joint initiative calling for greater influence over decisions affecting the future of the sport in the wake of the failed breakaway Super League project and the seemingly aborted plan to stage the World Cup every two years.
October 26 – The governing body of Germany’s top two divisions says more than 90% of players, coaches and staff from the 36 clubs involved have received vaccines against Covid-19.