By David Gold
June 10 – UEFA has confirmed the agreement of broadcast rights with partners across 130 countries worldwide for this summer’s European Under-21 Championship, which kicks off in Denmark tomorrow.
By David Gold
June 10 – Barcelona, who won the Champions League last month, have announced a pre-tax loss of €21 million (£18 million/$31 million) in the year leading up to June.
By David Gold
June 10 – The Football League has agreed in principle to adopt the new UEFA financial fair play system, which requires clubs to balance their books and break even each year, after a meeting in Cyprus.
By David Gold
June 10 – FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke will be giving the keynote speech at the Inside World Football Moscow Forum in Russia later this month, it has been announced today.
By David Gold
June 9 – Premier League revenues increased by £49 million ($80 million) to exceed £2 billion ($3.2 billion) in total during the 2009-10 season but are rising slower than total wage costs, which grew by £64 million ($105 million) to £1.4 billion ($2.3 billion), according to the latest report published by accountants Deloitte.
By Andrew Warshaw in Warsaw
June 8 – On the day that marked exactly a year before Euro 2012 gets under way in Poland and Ukraine, eradicating fan violence was identified as a key concern for the tournament, the first ever major football event to be held in Eastern Europe.
By David Gold
June 8 – Qatar’s first stadium for the 2022 World Cup will be completed by 2015, according to their World Cup Committee secretary general Hassan Al Thawadi.
By Emily Goddard
June 8 – Eight of Europe’s strongest nations will compete in Denmark for the UEFA European Under-21 Championship 2011 – the biggest sports event on Danish soil so far.
By David Gold
June 8 – UEFA has given its backing to the 2012 European Championship preparations just a day after Poland’s Supreme Audit Office raised doubts over the country’s transport infrastructure.
By David Gold
June 8 – Spain’s Real Zaragoza have applied to go into voluntary administration to deal with their perilous financial position.
By David Gold
June 8 – British Prime Minister David Cameron has labelled Sepp Blatter’s re-election as FIFA President a “farce” during Prime Minister’s Questions today.
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By David Gold
June 8 – FIFA has confirmed that it has extended its World Cup sponsorship agreement with Chinese solar energy company Yingli Green Energy.
By Emily Goddard
June 8 – Puma has replaced adidas as the official technical supplier for the South African Football Association (SAFA), signing a kit deal that will last beyond the next two FIFA World Cups.
By Mihir Bose
June 7 – The last few weeks have hardly been an advertisement for world football with corruption scandals engulfing FIFA but, for Alexey Sorokin, chief executive of the Russian 2018 organising committee, none of this will dim the glory of the World Cup.
By David Gold
June 8 – Racing Santandar have been forced to appeal for help from their regional Government and the previous owners as fears grow over the commitment of Indian owner Ahsan Ali Syed.