June 8 – Australia’s World Cup hopes remain alive after labouring to a 2-1 victory against the United Arab Emirates to set up a final, sudden-death playoff with Peru next Monday.
June 8 – A statue of Zinedine Zidane’s infamous 2006 World Cup headbutt on Marco Materazzi is to be put back on display by Qatar authorities nine years after it was removed following a public backlash.
June 8 – FIFA has expanded its FIFA+ streaming platform with the addition of Japanese, Korean, Italian and Bahasa languages.
June 8 – Ajax shirt sponsor Ziggo, who at the end of last year extended its sponsorship for a further two years, have expanded the deal to include its GigaNet fibre-optic cable network as the back-of-shirt sponsor.
June 7 – Turkmenistan came from two goals down to force a 2-2 draw against Qatar in Group A of the AFC U23 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2022 and book a quarter-final place with group winners Uzbekistan.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 7 – After an investigation lasting seven years, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the two most powerful officials in world football, go on trial in Switzerland on Wednesday facing fraud, embezzlement and other corruption charges in a criminal case that has gripped world football politics.
June 7 – Canada men’s national team have resumed training but say “questions have yet to be answered” after going on strike over World Cup prize money on Sunday, accusing Canada Soccer of “disrespect”.
June 7 – Cryptocurrency might have crashed but it hasn’t stopped Portuguese giant Benfica from becoming the country’s first club to launch a Fan Token on the blockchain-powered Socios.com platform.
June 7 – Kylian Mbappe has returned to the top of a ranking of the world’s most valuable players by transfer value with a price tag of £206 million.
June 7 – Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers have agreed a one-year shirt sponsorship deal with AstroPay. The online payment provider will replace online bookmaker Manbet as the club’s main sponsor.
June 7 – The finals tournament for Oceania’s Champions League will be hosted by New Zealand in August, with all eight competing teams to be confirmed at the end of June, the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has announced.
June 7 – Concacaf will play its 2022 Concacaf Girls’ U-15 Championship from July 31 to August 7 in Tampa, Florida with 31 Concacaf nations taking part, as well as one invited guest.
June 7 – The winners of this summer’s Women’s Euro 2022 in England will face the winners of July’s Copa America Femenina in Colombia in a women’s Finalissima.
June 6 – French President Emmanuel Macron has waded into the debate over the Champions League final debacle by insisting that ticket holders who were denied entry to the Stade de France by security personnel should be compensated “as soon as possible”.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 6 – They may have been second best over 90 minutes but a combination of an inspired goalkeeping display and the support of a passionate crowd helped Wales get over the line on Sunday as they reached their first World Cup finals for 64 years with a 1-0 win over luckless war-torn Ukraine.