June 15 – Girondins de Bordeaux have been relegated to the French third division because of financial problems following a decision by French football’s financial watchdog the DNCG.
June 16 – Conmebol has slammed FIFA’s chief of global development Arsene Wenger for suggesting Africa’s infrastructure is inadequate for developing talent and that Europe is the only continent where rising stars can reach full potential.
June 15 – Italian Serie A club Spezia Calcio have been cleared to resume player trading by sport’s highest court after winning an appeal against a FIFA transfer ban.
June 16 – Just a year after reaching the final of the delayed Euros, England slumped to their worst home defeat for 94 years on Tuesday, humiliated 4-0 by Hungary in the Nations League, a result that sent shock waves across the Continent.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 14 – The all-important hearing into whether football’s governing bodies had the legal right to sanction the much-maligned European Super League clubs will take place on July 11 and 12, potentially shaping the future of the game for years to come.
June 14 – The UEFA Nations League is producing some pretty unexpected results , and all this a few months before the kick-off to the Qatar World Cup. Teams are testing and some cannot be too happy.
By Paul Nicholson
June 13 – Just when you thought he was out of football’s finances altogether, former Concacaf president and football’s most-wanted, Jack Warner, has reared his head looking for a final feed at the Trinidad and Tobago FA’s FIFA-financed trough.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 13 – Ecuador has kept its place at the World Cup – for the time being at least – after FIFA threw out Chile’s protests over an ineligible player being fielded during the qualifying competition.
June 13 – Despite a plea from world players union Fifpro, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has thrown out an appeal by Kenya women’s team to be reinstated in next month’s African Cup of Nations, citing a legal technicality.
June 13 – A US judge has dismissed a rape allegation lawsuit against Cristiano Ronaldo because of the way documents were obtained by the accuser’s legal team.
By Samindra Kunti
June 10 – In a new revealing French senate session, Paris police chief Didier Lallement has admitted that the claim of 30,000-40,000 ticketless Liverpool fans at the European Cup final in Paris wasn’t based on any scientific reality, but he defended the use of teargas to disperse the fans.
June 10 – Brazilian club Flamengo have parted ways with their Portuguese manager Paulo Sousa after less than six months. Recent defeats at the hands of Fortaleza and Red Bull Bragantino triggered his dismissal.
June 9 – French FA (FFF) president Noel Le Graet has criticisbnbnbed the congested calendar with the current four-match Nations League window drawing the last bit of physical strength from Europe’s elite players.
June 9 – Is the creation of a breakaway Brazilian league back to square one? In a break away from the Libra group, 25 clubs have decided to form a separate group to discuss league plans.
June 9 – Unconfirmed reports suggest that Ecuador is on the verge of being kicked out of this year’s World Cup finals for fielding an ineligible player during qualifying.