By David Owen
March 2 – Arsenal, the North London club striving for a return to the Champions League next season, have posted a swingeing loss for the covid-impacted 2020-21 period.
March 2 – Speculation is mounting than Chelsea’s billionaire oligarch owner Roman Abramovich may be about to sell the club in the wake of his country’s invasion of Ukraine.
March 2 – The Belgian second division will expand to 12 teams with the introduction of both four U-23 teams and a playoff system from next season, the Pro League has confirmed.
March 2 – The Turkish Football Federation are playing the ultimate game of brinkmanship over their domestic rights deal that could conceivably plummet from a high of $500 million from the last rights cycle, to just $100 million for the next.
March 2 – UEFA has released €1 million from its Foundation for Children to help children in Ukraine as well as child refugees in neighbouring countries.
March 2 – The European Club Association (ECA) has kicked out its Russian members following the country’s invasion of Ukraine.
March 2 – While football’s governing bodies and clubs with Russian sponsorship are turning their back on the country following the invasion of Ukraine, individual protest action is also gathering pace.
March 2 – Adidas has suspended its long-term kit partnership with the Russian Football Union (RFU) that first began in 2008.
March 2 – Rigobert Song will succeed Toni Conceição as head coach of the Indomitable Lions, the Cameroonian sports ministry has announced.
March 2 – The United Arab Emirates, which stepped up at the last minute to host FIFA’s Club World Cup last month, has been named by the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) as the neutral venue for last round of Qatar 2022 qualifying.
March 3 – Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, a former Arsenal shareholder and who is linked to Everton via sponsorships and its chairman Farhad Moshiri, has stepped down as president of the International Fencing Federation (FIE).
By Andrew Warshaw
March 1 – The blanket ban on Russia in FIFA and UEFA competitions may not end there, with reports emerging that the Russian Football Union may take their case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
By Paul Nicholson
February 28 – Less than 24 hours after announcing a set of ‘soft’ sanctions against the Russian national team and the country’s clubs, FIFA and UEFA have bowed to overwhelming pressure from the football community, fans and media and suspended all teams from the country from participation in their competitions “until further notice”.
By Samindra Kunti and Andrew Warshaw
February 28 – With pressure mounting over his ownership of Chelsea, billionaire Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has passed the stewardship of the club to the trustees of its charitable foundation in what appears to be merely a cosmetic move designed to save face and his investment.
March 1 – Chelsea’s billionaire Russian owner Roman Abramovich has been asked by Ukraine to help broker peace with his country according to the oligarch’s official spokesperson.