May 9 – The prospect of an all-German Champions League final was dashed by Real Madrid and a considerable slice of good fortune as the Spaniards came from behind with two last-gasp goals to beat Bayern Munich 2-1 on Wednesday and advance 4-3 on aggregate to reach their sixth final in 10 years.
May 9 – VfB Stuttgart will play their pre-season in Japan as the latest German club to take part in the Bundesliga Japan Tour series jointly organised between the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga and SKY PerfecTV! – the broadcast partner of the Bundesliga in Japan.
May 9 – Fiorentina reached back-to-back Europa Conference League finals after a late penalty gave them a 1-1 draw and a 4-3 aggregate win over Club Bruges on Wednesday.
May 9 – The Canadian Premier League has launched the ‘On Tour’ series in an effort to expand the League to new communities across Canada’s vast coast-to-coast area.
May 9 – La Liga and FUNDACION LALIGA have launched a project in Kenya that will provide scholarships and football training to ‘empower’ young girls.
May 9 – Bursaspor, one Turkey’s biggest clubs, but currently languishing at the bottom of the Super Liga’s third tier and set to be relegated to the fourth, has announced debts of TL1.5 billion (€43.3 million).
May 8 – In a letter to the European Parliament, three Palestinian clubs from the West Bank have called for the ban of Israel “from all sports until it ceases the occupation of Palestine.”
May 8 – Football fans around the world now have a day to celebrate the world’s most popular sport every year – May 25.
May 8 – Diego Maradona’s Golden Ball trophy from the 1986 World Cup, which went missing for decades, will be auctioned in Paris next month and is expected to raise millions.
May 8 – Gibraltar-based Manchester 62 FC has announced an angel investment of $20 million which will allow the club to continue to be at the forefront of research into concussion and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in high-contact sports.
May 8 – Dortmund will return to Wembley and the Champions League final after a dramatic 1-0 second-leg victory against Paris Saint-Germain (2-0 on aggregate), raising the prospect of an all-German final in London once again.
May 7 – USA, Mexico, Panama and Canada have been pre-seeded into the quarter finals of the 2024/25 Concacaf Nations League that will be played over two-legs in the November 11-19 international fixtures window.
May 8 – Concacaf will unveil the brand identity for its new Concacaf W Champions Cup competition at the draw for the 11-team event on June 6.
May 8 – The Gate 13 ultras of Greek giant Panathinaikos, the club’s largest supporters group, have organised a protest rally calling for the resignation of president Giannis Alafouzos after 12 years in power.
May 7 – César Luis Menotti, the charismatic coach who led Argentina to their first World Cup title in 1978, has died at the age of 85, the Argentine Football Association has announced.