March 7 – Portugal’s Benfica have the most profitable academy in the world having generated €379 million from the sale of players since July 2015. Real Madrid have the second most profitable youth training system. Chelsea are ranked 8th.
By David Owen
March 4 – Aston Villa, the West Midlands side that recently brought Philippe Coutinho back to the Premier League, has unveiled a sharply-reduced loss for the 2020-21 season when it consolidated its status as a top-tier club.
March 4 – The Turkish domestic TV rights deal took another twist today, as the deadline for beIN Sport/Digiturk to accept the broadcast packages looked set to pass without signature. beIN Sport/Digiturk is the highest bidder for all of the packages on offer.
March 4 – Manchester City have unveiled a multi-year global sponsorship with crypto exchange OKX, who will become club’s Official Cryptocurrency Exchange Partner.
March 4 – The Russian Football Union has confirmed it is going to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to appeal against its ban from international competitions imposed by FIFA and UEFA as punishment for the invasion of Ukraine.
March 4 – Eight foreign players plus German manager Daniel Farke, who was in the job for just six weeks, have quit Russian Premier League club Krasnodar in a continuing exodus since Russia invaded Ukraine.
March 4 – The doors are closing on Alisher Usmanov. Having already had sanctions applied to him by the EU, he has now been added to the UK’s hit list of Russian oligarchs.
March 3 – Belarus and its club sides have been banned from playing matches at home by UEFA. Instead they will have to find neutral venues to play behind closed doors.
March 4 – Vietnam has been confirmed as the centralised hosts of Group I in the AFC Cup 2022. Matches will be played June 24-30.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 3 – Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch whose fortune transformed Chelsea from perennial also-rans into one of the most successful clubs in Europe, has decided to pull the plug and sell up.
March 3 – Saudi Arabia will host all five of the centralised groups for the west zone of the AFC Champions League 2022. The decision to go to Saudi follows the successful hosting last November of the 2021 AFC Champions League final in Riyadh.
March 3 – Everton are the latest football club to severe sponsorship ties with Russian companies following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
March 3 – Bet monitoring agency Sportradar Integrity Services (SIS) is reporting a record number of suspicious matches were detected in 2021. A year in which global sports betting turnover topped €1.45 trillion for the first time, according to SIS estimates.
March 3 – Turner Sports has picked up men’s and women’s US national team games in a reported $200-220 million deal.
March 3 – The Albanian Football Federation has postponed its presidential election until March 15, following a dispute with one of its regional associations.