By Andrew Warshaw
September 17 – Has Germany made an unwanted tactical mistake in its bid to win next week’s vote for Euro 2024 when it goes head to head with Turkey?
September 17 – UEFA is exploring options for the launch an official e-sports tournament around EURO 2020, requesting expressions of interest from firms who could “create, develop and operate an official e-sports tournament”.
September 17 -A member of the Russian protest group Pussy Riot who was one those who staged a pitch invasion during the World Cup final, has reportedly flown to into Berlin to receive medical treatment.
September 17 – Yet another stampede has occurred in African football with tragic consequences.
September 17 – Safaricom, which has over 29.5 million subscribers in Kenya to a variety of telecoms services including ‘mobile money’, has partnered with Spain’s LaLiga focusing on grassroots football.
September 17 – The Premier League have signed their seventh partner to complete their sponsorship. Coca-Cola GB have joined in a multi-brand three-and-a-half year deal starting January 2019.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 14 – Transparency, transparency, transparency. The word crops up time and time again whenever German officials discuss their bid to stage the 2024 European Championship.
September 14 – FIFA has completed an analysis of Big 5 league transfers in the summer 2018 window using its International Transfer Matching System (ITMS) which recorded another new record level of global transfer spending at $5.44 billion.
By David Owen
September 14 – Just for a change it is the blue, rather than the red, side of Manchester that has kicked off the latest Premier League financial reporting season. A pity then that Manchester City’s newly-published 2017-18 results should be as solid and, well, unspectacular as much of the football played last year by Pep Guardiola’s record-breakers was irresistible and inspired.
September 14 – Understanding the financial scale of China’s professional clubs who hit the news with big money transfer deals before a government and Chinese FA crackdown, can be difficult. Latest results from Shanghai SIPG Group, owners of a Chinese Super League club, open a window to the market.
September 14 – French Ligue1 giants Paris Saint-Germain have teamed up with basketball legend Michael Jordan and his fashion label Jordan Brand to launch and exclusive clothing collection.
September 14 – Italian Serie A club Chievo have been deducted three points and fined €200,000 by the Italian Football Association (FIGC) for false accounting, leaving them on minus two.
September 14 – The English Premier League, which has been under pressure to fall into line with the rest of Europe’s major leagues and introduce video assistant referee (VAR) technology, has agreed to test the system – though not use the results – across multiple games for the first time this weekend.
September 14 – Spain’s anti-doping agency has reportedly closed its investigation into Russia and Valencia winger Denis Cheryshev for an alleged doping violation.
September 13 – UEFA has renewed FedEx Express as an official sponsor of the UEFA Europa League in a new three-year deal.