By David Gold
August 16 – An investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia by Italy’s competition authority for its acquisition of the rights to air the 2010 and 2014 World Cups has been extended to include the News Corp subsidiary’s UEFA Champions League rights.
By David Gold
August 15 – The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has confirmed that their league season, which had been postponed due to a match-fixing probe, will begin on September 9, and that no sanctions would be forthcoming for the teams involved.
By David Gold
August 15 – FIFA has warned Switzerland to enforce its ruling that FC Sion are unable to field six new signings after the Swiss League allowed the club to select three players barred from competition by world football’s governing body last weekend.
Andrew Warshaw
August 11 – Sixteen Caribbean officials are to be probed by FIFA for their roles in the recent bribery scandal that led to the downfall of former Asian football supremo Mohamed Bin Hammam and the resignation of senior FIFA vice-president Jack Warner.
By David Gold
August 11 – Players in Spain have announced that they will go on strike for the opening two rounds of fixtures in La Liga and the Segunda Liga, Luis Rubiales, the President of the Association of Spanish Footballers (AFE), has confirmed.
By David Gold
August 11 – FIFA has donated $1 million (£616,523/€700,918) to those affected by the crisis in Somalia, brought on by the drought which has struck East Africa in recent months.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 10 – Six match officials were banned for life by FIFA today in the latest move to clean up the game and stamp out corruption.
By David Gold
August 11 – America’s Major Soccer League (MLS) has agreed a three-year deal with NBC Sports to broadcast 45 live games a season, replacing the existing arrangement with Fox Soccer.
By David Gold
August 9 – Newly promoted Atalanta will start the Serie A season with a six point penalty for their role in the match fixing affair which has rocked Italy, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) confirmed today.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 9 – England’s decision to postpone tomorrow night’s prestige friendly with the Netherlands because of the widespread rioting in London reverberated around the world as Football Association chairman David Bernstein (pictured) admitted he was not able to guarantee the safety of players.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 8 – More than 10 Caribbean officials are reportedly to face possible corruption proceedings tomorrow by FIFA’s Ethics Committee for their role in the bribery scandal that brought down former Asian football chief Mohamed Bin Hammam (pictured).
By David Gold
August 8 – A rift between the Italian league and players in Serie A has widened after all 20 captains of top flight teams signed a letter demanding that a dispute over a new collective player rights deal be resolved before the season starts, as the threat of a players strike increases.
By David Gold
August 5 – France’s former national team coach Raymond Domenech has agreed a €975,000 (£850,000/$1.4 million) compensation deal with the French Football Federation (FFF), bringing to an end the dispute following his sacking after the disastrous World Cup campaign in South Africa last year.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 4 – The war of words between club and country continued today when the head of the European Club Association (ECA), Karl Heinze Rummenigge (pictured), suggested Sepp Blatter was no longer fit to run FIFA.
By David Gold
August 4 – Issa Hayatou, President of the African Football Confederation (CAF), has urged football authorities across the continent to organise charity games in aid of the victims of the famine plaguing the Horn of Africa.