By Duncan Mackay
September 30 – Russia will spend a projected $19.2 million (£11.9 billion/€14.9 billion) on getting ready to host the FIFA World Cup in 2018, the country’s Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko revealed today.
By David Gold
September 29 – Fans attending the Russia 2018 FIFA World Cup could spend whole days or more travelling after the confirmation tonight that Kaliningrad and Yekaterinburg are among the 11 cities chosen to host matches.
By David Gold
September 28 – CSKA Sofia are set to be thrown out of the Bulgarian championship, if UEFA carries through on its threat to ban the club from European competition for three seasons.
By David Gold
September 28 – Arsenal have revealed profit before tax of £36.6 million ($59 million/€46 million) for the last financial year ending May 31, 2012, a substantial increase on the previous figures.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – The international players’ union FIFPro has criticised a Bulgarian club for requesting its players and coaches to take lie detector tests following a surprise defeat.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – Real Madrid have tied up their existing kit supply deal with adidas until the end of the 2019-2020 season.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – The draw for the qualifying campaign for the expanded 2016 UEFA European Championship in France will take place in Nice on March 9, 2014, France 2016 President Jacques Lambert has revealed.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 28 – European fans will have to either stay awake or get up in the early hours of the morning to watch certain matches at the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil because of the time difference.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 27 – Former England captain John Terry was found guilty of racial abuse today and banned for four matches by the Football Association (FA).
By David Gold
September 27 – Luiz Felipe Scolari, who coached Brazil to victory in the 2002 World Cup, has been hired by the nation’s Government to promote the 2014 FIFA competition taking place in the South American country.
By David Gold
September 27 – Matías Almeyda has made a series of allegations relating to match-fixing and doping from his time in Italy’s Serie A, in another blow to a league already badly hit by scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 27 – UEFA’s decision to expand the European Championship finals in 2016 from 16 to 24 teams, criticised in some quarters for watering down the tournament, had to happen eventually says the organisation’s outgoing technical director Andy Roxburgh.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 27 – FIFA may have been rocked by scandal over the past 18 months but the organisation’s Goal programme, set up 13 years ago to assist developing nations, has reached a new milestone.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 27 – The spat over alleged overspending by Russia’s wealthiest club Zenit St Petersburg has gone all the way to the top with Russian President Vladimir Putin wading into the debate.
By David Gold
September 27 – The window for applications to be a volunteer at the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup has closed, with a record number putting themselves forward for the opportunity.