November 14 – Manchester City, praised for their creative attacking, appear to have now solved their defensive leaks according to a new set of stats that ranks them top of clubs in the Big 5 European leagues in terms of least shots on their goal from inside the box.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – Incredible, unthinkable, unimaginable. For the first time in 60 years, the World Cup finals will be without four-time champions Italy after they were eliminated in the playoffs by Sweden on Monday.
By Paul Nicholson
November 14 – With jury selection complete, the trial of three South American former football administrators began in earnest with opening statements on Monday in the Brooklyn Federal court.
By Samindra Kunti
November 14 – Russia and Argentina inaugurated Moscow’s refurbished Luzhniki Stadium with a friendly international, but crowd congestion after the match left organisers red faced. In June and July, the venue will host the opening match and the final of the 2018 World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 14 – FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura will no doubt be delighted at her native Senegal qualifying for the World Cup finals next year.
November 14 – Football DataCo, the official data rights holder of English and Scottish football, has moved to increase its integrity provision via a combined deal with Genius Sports and Perform Group.
November 14 – Football’s tentative steps to ride the wave of the eSports boom are speeding up. Yesterday Konami announced it would be launching a world league for its PES game with Spanish firm eFootball.pro. Now City Football Group club, New York City Football Club, have signed the club’s second FIFA eSports player – Joseph ‘Joey’ Calabro.
November 14 – Honduras coach Jorge Luis Pinto (pictured) has accused Australia of carrying out “espionage” in the build-up to the all-important second leg of their World Cup play-off.
By Mark Baber
November 14 – DHL, the Germany based international express services provider, has renewed its partnership with Indian Super League (ISL), marking the company’s third year in its sponsorship of one of India’s two top professional football leagues,
November 14 – Northern Ireland are to push for the implementation of video assistant referees in the wake of the country’s failure to reach the World Cup courtesy of a highly controversial first-leg penalty that left players, officials and fans fuming.
November 14 – The English Premier League and Football League have agreed a three-year collaboration with Stonewall, the UK’s leading charity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues, to promote equality in football.
By Paul Nicholson
November 13 – Japanese video game maker Konami is entering into eSports live event competition with an agreement with Spanish-based eFootball.Pro to create an international league.
November 13 – It may not impact directly on its bid to stage the 2026 World Cup but Morocco struck a psychological blow against the United States-led rival bid when it qualified at the weekend for next year’s tournament in Russia.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 13 – As Qatar’s relationship with its Gulf neighbours grows ever more tense, the man leading the country’s 2022 World Cup preparations has re-iterated, not for the first time, that his country has nothing to do with terrorism and is in fact leading the fight against it in the region.
November 13 – Lander Sports, the Chinese holding company whose principal Jisheng Gao (pictured) holds 80% ownership of Premier League Southampton, has signed a deal with Zhihui Real Estate to speed up the construction of its sports projects.