By Andrew Warshaw
October 30 – Lionel Messi is favourite to pick up a fourth consecutive FIFA World Player of the Year award after being selected among 23 candidates for the prestigious annual prize.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 24 – In a major breakthrough for goal-line technology, both the Hawk-Eye and GoalRef systems have now been licensed for worldwide use by FIFA.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 23 – One of the two companies developing goal-line technology say “all the big leagues” in Europe including the Premier League have made contact with a view to implementation its system.
By Tom Degun
October 16 – Domenico Scala, the chairman of the FIFA Audit and Compliance Committee, believes the reforms his team are making to football’s world governing body are helping to make it more clear and transparent.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 12 – FIFA Executive Committee vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan is pushing for a revolutionary corruption ranking system among FIFA members to make them more accountable when it comes to match-fixing and illegal betting.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 8 – Jérôme Champagne, an influential former FIFA administrator says the reform process instigated by Sepp Blatter, while “starting to adapt to the 21st century”, fails to address the need for greater democracy within the organisation.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 8 – South Africa’s upcoming away friendly against Poland this Friday (October 12) has been switched to the capital after the original venue refused to allow the match to take place.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 2 – The sale of broadcasting rights for qualifying matches for the 2016 European Championship and the 2018 World Cup will be handled by the newly created CAA Eleven agency, UEFA has announced.
By David Gold
October 2 – Ottawa will not host the FIFA Under-20 Women’s World Cup in 2014 as its new Lansdowne Park stadium may not be ready in time.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 27 – FIFA may have been rocked by scandal over the past 18 months but the organisation’s Goal programme, set up 13 years ago to assist developing nations, has reached a new milestone.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 20 – Goal-line technology experts are putting the final preparations to what could be a landmark development in the move to introduce scientific aids for referees after years of debate.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Sorbonne University in Paris
September 11 – A new initiative aimed at raising awareness among young athletes of the dangers of match-fixing and manipulating results was launched here today in a joint enterprise between the Qatar Olympic Committee and the International Centre for Sports Security (ICSS).
By Andrew Warshaw
September 9 – Over one third of top footballers have been riskily using food supplements to enhance their performance, according to FIFA, even though there is no scientific evidence to prove they have any benefit.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 7 – The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS), the not-for-profit organisation based in Qatar, highlighted a number of pressing needs to make sport events safer when its officials attended this week’s Sponsors Sports Venue Summit in Munich.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 3 – FIFA President Sepp Blatter has no intention of standing down before his final term of office is completed – and still believes UEFA boss Michel Platini is his most likely successor despite the pair drifting apart in recent months.