June 9 – Concacaf completed their first round of 2022 World Cup qualifying last night, with six nations progressing to the next knock out stage that will whittle them down to three teams for the final 8-team qualifying group.
June 10 – The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) is set to add a 12th team to its competition. San Diego will join the Los Angeles-based Angel City FC debuting in the 2022 season.
June 9 – Debbie Hewitt is set to become the first female chair of the English Football Association in its 158-year-old history after being nominated to replace Greg Clarke.
June 9 – Brazil’s national team have said they are against the hosting of the Copa America in their country – some players for professional reasons, others for humanitarians reasons – but have confirmed that they will participate in the tournament that was switched to Brazil at the eleventh hour.
June 9 – Italy’s Serie A and telecoms giant TIM have extended their partnership with a new three-season deal, taking the sponsorship deal beyond the 25-year mark.
June 9 – Just days before the start of the delayed Euro 2020, Russia has sent a formal letter of complaint to UEFA over Ukraine’s alleged “political” kit that has provoked fury in Moscow.
June 9 – Fans attending England’s opening Euro 2020 match against Croatia on Sunday will be the first at a sporting event in Britain to have the option of using vaccine passports to prove they are at low risk of transmitting Covid-19.
June 8 – The first round of Concacaf qualification for the Qatar 2022 World Cup reaches its final stage of group games tonight with five of the six groups going down to the wire.
June 8 – Syria headlined World Cup qualifying in Asia by becoming the second country to qualify for the third and final round of the campaign en route to Qatar following a 3-0 win against Guam.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 8 – Historical and bitter divisions between Ukraine and Russia over the embattled region of Crimea have spilled over into the upcoming Euros with the Russians furious over Ukraine’s national team shirt that featuresa map of the country which includes the disputed peninsula.
June 8 – Brazil won’t boycott the Copa America on home soil despite the team’s players expected release of a statement today (Tuesday) expressing their criticism at the way organisers and the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) have pressed ahead with the tournament in the pandemic-stricken country.
June 8 – In a potentially significant twist to the European Super League fallout, Spanish media are reporting that the Swiss Ministry of Justice has barred both UEFA and FIFA – which are based in Switzerland – from taking premature sanctions against the aborted league’s remaining founder members.
June 8 – FIFA will open an office in Paris to move a part of its operations out of Zurich. The world governing body is expected to formally announce the new office later this week.
June 8 – I seem to have spent most of my adult life watching Didier Deschamps win football trophies.
June 8 – A Turkish court has sentenced a media executive and a former police chief to more than 1,000 years each in prison for conspiring to bring match-fixing charges against top-flight Fenerbahce.