September 21 – French top-flight club Lens have been ordered to play at least two home games behind closed doors as a punishment for last weekend’s pitch invasion during the local derby with northern rivals Lille.
September 21 – Marcos Alonso is no longer taking the knee because he believes the gesture is “losing a bit of strength”. Instead, the Chelsea player has opted to point at the anti-racism message on the sleeve of his shirt.
September 21 – Premier League Liverpool have added SC Johnson as the club’s official cleaning and disinfectant partner, in a partnership that will include a focus on supporting its sustainability initiative.
September 21 – Wolverhampton Wanderers have partnered with Warner Music UK’s Alternative Distribution Alliance to launch ‘Wolves Records’, the first record label by a UK football club.
September 21 – Asian online bookmaker 188Bet has signed three-year partnerships with Liverpool and Bayern Munich football clubs.
September 20 – Europe’s umbrella coaches association AEFCA (Alliance of European Football Coaches’ Associations) has become the latest football stakeholder to condemn FIFA’s proposal to move the men’s World Cup to a biennial cycle.
September 20 – Despite FIFA insisting it has majority support for its controversial idea of a World Cup every two years, the German and Portuguese federations are the latest bodies to condemn the concept.
September 20 – Juventus have recorded a mammoth loss of €209.9 million for the 2020/21 season, but still remain convinced of a future European Super League as the solution to the club’s deep financial problems.
September 20 – Qatari-owned Paris Saint-Germain will play a friendly against a Saudi select in the Saudi capital as part of the Riyadh Season Cup.
September 20 – Bundesliga giants Borussia Dortmund has agreed to the raising of €86.5 million via an increase in share capital. The new money will be used to cover the economic impact of the global pandemic on its finances.
September 20 – One of Britain’s leading football agents allegedly broke the rules by signing underage players, according to a BBC television programme.
September 20 – FIFA has begun the next phase of its consultation around the international match calendar, inviting members associations, confederations and other stakeholders to discuss controversial plans for the introduction of a biennial World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 20 – The football world is paying tribute to former England striker Jimmy Greaves, one of the game’s greatest goal scorers and personalities who has died aged 81.
September 20 – English championship club Derby County, twice crowned champions of English football back in the 1970s in the old first division, have filed for administration amid continued financial problems at the club.
September 17 – Following the results of a fan survey FIFA says a majority of supporters back the world federation’s much-criticised plans to introduce a biennial World Cup, but on closer scrutiny that majority is rather a thin claim to stake.