UN adopts May 25 as ‘World Football Day’

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 – 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.
May 7 – Some 155 police officers were injured in clashes with Dynamo Berlin and Energie Cottbus fans over the weekend – most of them from the use of their own tear gas.
May 7 – Qatari-owned KAS Eupen has been relegated from the Belgian top-flight following a 1-0 defeat to KV Kortrijk in the relegation play-offs.
May 7 – Fans of Turkey’s Ankaragücü expressed their support for Palestine in the military conflict with Israel by raising a huge banner at the Turkish Super Lig match against Alanyaspor.
May 6 – Peter Augruso has been elected unopposed as president of Canada Soccer at the confederation’s annual meeting.
May 7 – Botafogo has borrowed R$333 million ($65.6 million) from American owner John Textor, but not all the cash has remained in the club.
May 5 – The UEFA Executive Committee has rubberstamped a recommendation from its national competitions committee to increase squad sizes from an original quota of 23 players to 26.
May 3 – Manchester City and Girona could face a UEFA probe over their eligibility to compete in next season’s Champions League should the latter secure qualification because of rules around multi-club ownership, according to press reports.