September 15 – Veteran coach Carlos Queiroz has arrived in Iran ahead of his third spell in charge of Team Melli. The Portuguese succeeds Dragan Skocic, who had qualified Iran for the World Cup.
September 13 – Arsenal’s Europa League fixture with PSV Eindhoven has been postponed due to the lack of adequate security personnel following the death of Queen Elizabeth, UEFA said on Monday.
September 13 – After a long wait and following the formal resignation of manager Ryan Giggs, Wales have committed fully to Robert Page to lead the country, giving him a four-year contract.
September 12 – Defending champions Mamelodi Sundowns have been drawn with Nigeria’s Bayelsa Queens, Egypt’s Wadi Degla and the representative of the Central African Football Federations’ Union (UNIFFAC) in Group B of the African Women’s Champions League.
September 12 – MLS expansion team St. Louis City SC who begin league play in 2023, will be testing their soon-to-be-opened new stadium next week.
September 12 – Italy’s Serie A has accumulated a transfer deficit of €1.4 billion – they were the second-highest spenders behind the Premier League in the last window.
September 11 – UEFA has pushed the Champions League tie between Rangers and SSC Napoli back from Tuesday September 13 to Wednesday September 14 to allow a day between the lying in state in Edinburgh and the match kick off.
September 11 – UEFA have opened disciplinary proceedings against both OGC Nice and FC Cologne after their Conference League opener last Thursday was marred by violent scenes that saw running battles both inside and outside the stadium.
September 9 -Tributes have poured in from football worldwide following the death of England’s longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth II, aged 96, yesterday.
By Paul Nicholson
September 7 – Football’s Most Wanted, Jack Warner (pictured), has prevented more than 100 Trinidad and Tobago football creditors being paid after he challenged the settlement agreement made with the trustee in the Trinidad and Tobago courts earlier this week.
September 8 – The American women’s and men’s national teams have signed their collective bargaining agreements (CBA) with governing body U.S. Soccer, bringing to an end a lengthy battle for equal pay that included a gender discrimination lawsuit that ended in a $24 million settlement.
By Samindra Kunti in Brugge
September 8 – The Belgian champions Club Burge opened their Champions League campaign with a hard-fought 1-0 victory against Bundesliga-strugglers Bayer Leverkusen. In the same group, Atletico Madrid provided injury-time drama against Porto with a 101st-minute winner from Antoine Griezmann.
September 8 – Flamengo will face Atletico Paranaense in the final of the 2022 Copa Libertadores after the Curitiba club eliminated defending champions Palmeiras 3-2 on aggregate.
September 8 – UEFA has released its Circular Economy Guidelines in conjunction with Zero Waste Week and which are part of UEFA’s Football Sustainability Strategy 2030.
By Samindra Kunti in Paris
September 6 – Kylian Mbappé and PSG pushed past Juventus with a 2-1 win to open their Champions League campaigns, but concerns remain about the Parisians’ defensive set-up if they are to go all the way and win their first European Champions League title.