June 24 – The AFC has drawn the qualifying groups for its flagship AFC Women’s Asian Cup to be held in India in 2022. The competition has been expanded to a 12-team finals with a record number of 28 nations going into the draw held at AFC House in Kuala Lumpur.
June 24 – Constant Omari, for years one of African football’s most influential as well as controversial figures, has been suspended by FIFA for a year for breaking its ethics code.
June 24 – Molten has renewed its partnership and licensing agreement with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) making it the Official Match Ball Supplier for 2021 for national team and club competitions.
June 24 – Football is one of eight sports at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this August that will use a lottery system to decide which ticketholders can attend matches.
June 24 – Danish investment group Better Collective has acquired a majority stake in Danish Superliga club Viborg FF.
June 24 – The AFC Asian Cup China 2023 Qualifiers Final Round play-offdraw has pitched Guam against Cambodia in the first playoff, while Indonesia were drawn against Chinese Taipei.
By Samindra Kunti in Saint Petersburg
June 24 – Sweden claimed surprise top spot in Group E with a stoppage time winner from Viktor Claesson in a 3-2 victory over Poland to eliminate Paulo Sousa’s disappointing team from the continental finals.
By Paul Nicholson
June 23 – Javier Tebas was his typical forthright self at a media event today where he covered multiple topics from the failed European Super League to next year’s LaLiga attendance expectations, the importance of LaLiga’s right to govern itself, and the relative importance, or unimportance, of Lionel Messi to Spain.
June 23 – Crowd capacity at Wembley will be raised to more than 60,000 for the semi-finals and final of Euro 2020, the largest attendance at any sporting event in the country for 15 months.
June 22 – The mayor of Munich has described as “shameful” a ruling by UEFA to ban his city’s plans to illuminate the Allianz Arena in rainbow colours in support of LGBTQ+ rights for tonight’s Germany-Hungary Euro 2020 clash.
June 23 – Former Lille owner Gerard Lopez has stepped forward to save plagued Girondins de Bordeaux from going bust after an agreement was reached according to the Ligue 1 club for an undisclosed sum.
June 23 – The AFC is to hold the draw for its expanded Women’s Asian Cup India 2022 Qualifiers tomorrow. There will also be a draw for the play-off match-ups for the final two spots in the closing qualifying for the men’s Asian Cup China 2023.
June 23– Having secured rights for UEFA’s prime club competitions across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) in a $600 million deal earlier this month,beIN Media Group has expanded its partnership with UEFA by securing rights to seven further countries in Asia.
June 23 – Aston Villa have landed China-based online betting firm OB Sports as their new sleeve sponsor for the 2021/22 season.
June 23 – Nike lead Adidas 9-8 in the Euro 2020 battle of the kit suppliers though Adidas take pride of place when it comes to the biggest deal, spending €85.2 million on their German partnership, compared to Nike’s biggest deal being the €60.8 million they spend with England.