By Samindra Kunti and Paul Nicholson
May 12 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has defended the ticket policy for the final of the Champions League between Liverpool and Madrid in Paris this month as fans for all three club finals have scrambled to get tickets.
May 13 – Artur de Almeida e Silva looks set to succeed Zimbabwe’s Phillip Chiyangwa as the new president of Cosafa, the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations, but questions have been raised over whether the president of the Federação Angolana de Futebol (FAF) should have been allowed to stand for the presidency in the first place.
May 13 – The European Leagues have welcomed the last-minute changes to UEFA’s re-configured Champions League structure that will come into force post 2024 and were approved by UEFA’s executive committee and congress this week.
May 13 – USA vs Haiti and Mexico vs Jamaica will open the Concacaf W Championship on July 4 at Estadio Universitario in Monterrey, Mexico.
May 12 – Ecuador’s place in this year’s World Cup finals appears to be in seriously jeopardy after FIFA opened a disciplinary case looking into whether the country fielded an ineligible player during qualifying.
May 12 – UEFA’s revenue record breaking Euro 2020 championships, played last year, have provided confidence for a bumper 21% increase in budget for the confederation’s HatTrick programme for the 2024-2028 cycle.
May 12 – Ajax have been crowned Dutch champions for a record 36th time following a resounding 5-0 victory against Herenveen, securing a direct ticket to the Champions League group stages.
May 12 – Ukraine’s men’s national team has played its first match since the Russian invasion – against Germany’s Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday.
May 12 – French side Nice have condemned a section of their own supporters for a sickening chant mocking the late Emiliano Sala.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – From staving off the threat of a breakaway super league to organising the Euros in 11 countries during an unprecedented pandemic to ploughing all but three percent of its budget back into football, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin today issued a point-by-point appraisal of his organisation’s achievements over the past year.
By Samindra Kunti in Vienna
May 11 – Gianni Infantino has said that the “the undeniable progress” on migrant worker rights host nation Qatar has made will be part of the 2022 World Cup legacy.
By Samindra Kunti in Vienna
May 11 – European Commission vice-president Margaritis Schinas has told UEFA that the EU will act “to defend the football model” against any attempts to bring back the European Super League.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has defended the decision not to throw the Russian federation and its officials out of his organisation, implying that would be one step too far in terms of punishments imposed as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 11 – Buffeted by criticism from leagues and fans, UEFA has scrapped plans to hand Champions League places to clubs based on past success.
May 11 – The Euro 2024 championships in Germany will open at the Fussball Arena in Munich, and close with the final at the Olympiastadion in Berlin.