By Samindra Kunti in Leuven
April 8 – World champions Spain kicked off their Euro 2025 qualifying campaign with a 7-0 demolition job of Belgium as FC Barcelona’s Salma Paralluelo starred, scoring a hat-trick.
April 8 – Online betting operator Betano will replace Assaí as a title sponsor of the Brazilian topflight.
April 8 – Liverpool have been the first to blink in the three-way Premier League title race with Arsenal and Manchester City, as Manchester United managed a 2-2 draw at Old Trafford after Liverpool wasted a multitude of chances.
April 8 – The battle this week in the Champions League quarter finals will also see some of Europe’s biggest football club social media accounts swing into action.
April 8 – Tickets have gone on sale for the 6th edition of the AFC U23 Asian Cup to be held in Qatar April 15-May 5.
April 5 – The English Premier League is reported to be discussing a new ‘luxury tax’ fine system instead of points deductions to punish clubs who breach financial rules.
April 5 – The Cameroonian FA, Fecafoot, and its president Samuel Eto’o have rejected the appointment of national team manager Marc Brys by the sports ministry, claiming it breaks the law.
April 5 – With the UEFA Champions League (UCL) resuming next week at the quarter final stage, Football Benchmark has undertaken a financial analysis and comparison of the qualified clubs, examining the economic balance of the pairings.
April 5 – Disgraced former Spanish FA boss Luis Rubiales remains defiant in the face of a possible prison sentence and suggests he’s being punished for being a man.
April 5 – Six clubs have applied to join the women’s professional soccer league in Canada providing the numbers required for launch in 2025.
April 5 – Wisla Krakow have threatened to boycott the Polish Cup final if a ban on their fans attending the game is upheld.
April 5 – Scenes of violence marked the Croatian Cup semi-final between Hajduk Split and Dinamo Zagreb. After the match at the Poljud Stadium, which ended with a 1-0 victory to the visitors from Zagreb, the home team’s ultras broke through security on to pitch to confront the Hajduk players.
April 5 – Liverpool have opened talks with Sporting manager Ruben Amorim to succeed Jurgen Klopp at the end of the current season.
April 5 – Hull City manager Liam Rosenior is the latest club manager to call for social media users to be made more accountable after being the target of online racist comments.
April 5 – The opportunity of football to bring a transformational change to cities and their sporting cultures is nowhere more evident currently that in the US.