July 4 – Former Netherlands international and current Ireland coach Vera Pauw has revealed that she was sexually abused by three men employed within Dutch football when she was a player.
July 4 – UEFA is launching a programme to combat online racist abuse of players by working with social media companies to remove harmful content from platforms.
July 1 – A mass brawl after the USA’s 2-0 win over Costa Rica at the Concacaf U20 Championships in Honduras earlier this week has resulted in bans for nine Costa Ricans and one American.
July 1 – A second English team has cancelled a fixture against Qatari opposition following a backlash over the World Cup host’s human rights record.
July 1 – Football is a cruel master, Canada will tell you. Having broken back into the upper echelons of Concacaf’s national team hierarchy with World Cup 2022 qualification, they came down to earth with a bump losing the second match of their new Nations League campaign to Honduras.
June 30 – The final 23-player rosters for the Concacaf W Championship have been released for the eight nations with the US and Canada, the two red-hot favourites for the tournament stacking their squads with in-form stars and big names.
June 30 – Concacaf has begun the rollout of its newly launched Coaching Convention across its region with a number of ‘Coach Education exchanges’.
June 29 – Mexican consortium Grupo Orlegi has expanded its portfolio of football clubs following the acquisition of the Spanish second-division club Sporting Gijon.
June 29 – Italy’s Serie A in future will be decided by a play-off game rather than the club records against each other, and then goal difference, according to a new ruling passed the league.
June 28 – Fouzi Lekjaa has been re-elected unopposed as president of the Moroccan FA for a third four-year term.
June 28 – In the latest protest against World Cup host Qatar’s human rights record, English tier-2 club Watford have cancelled a friendly match against the Qatar national team.
June 27 – Danny Jordaan has retained the presidency of the South African Football Association (SAFA) for a third and final term after a very contentious election defeating former SAFA vice-president Ria Ledwaba, who could have become the first woman to lead the game in the country.
June 27 – With the ink barely dry on Erling Haaland’s €60 million switch to Manchester City, the club’s owners are on the brink of snapping up former Serie A club Palermo for what could prove to be a bargain €13 million.
June 27 – Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has suggested that the Motsepe Foundation could pay for Pitso Mosimane to become the new boss of Bafana Bafana.
June 27 – UEFA have blocked Sheriff Tiraspol from hosting European competition games in its breakaway home region in Moldova in the latest football-related fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.