November 19 – The severity of the seven-game ban meted out to Tottenham Hotspur’s Uruguayan midfielder Rodrigo Bentancur has prompted widespread dismay and bewilderment across the English game with authorities accused of inconsistency verging on victimisation.
November 19 – St. Louis City SC has announced a naming-rights agreement with global battery manufacturer Energizer for its new football-specific stadium, which will now be called Energizer Park.
November 19 – San Marino, the world’s bottom-ranked team ranked 210th, made history Monday on an historic night in Liechtenstein.
November 19 – England captain Harry Kane says he wants to carry on playing for his country beyond the 2026 World Cup.
November 19 – Betfair has renewed its partnership with Brazilian Serie A team Cruzeiro until the end of the 2026 season, marking the highest value deal in the history of the Minas Gerais club.
November 19 – Former Belgium international defender Toby Alderweireld has revealed that he decided to end his international career after thinking he was “going to die”.
November 19 – Corinthians have sidelined player Gi Fernandes after she failed a doping test during the U-20 Women’s World Cup.
November 19 – Tottenham Hotspur have revealed their new ‘remastered’ brand identity, which will see the club ditch the letters underneath its logo for the first time.
November 19 – Honduras go into the second leg of their Nations League quarter final tie against Mexico in Toluca with a two-goal lead and a major upset in the offing.
November 19 – The Nou Mestalla may finally be closer to competition after it was announced that a new long-term corporate financing agreement has been finalised between Valencia CF and its investing partners to complete the stadium.
November 19 – Wayne Rooney is no stranger to having cameras follow his every move, and that is set to continue as the former England and Manchester United star, will participate in a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
November 19 – The president of the North Macedonian Football Federation (FFM), Muamed Sejdini (pictured), has resigned, two months after he was attacked by masked men in the centre of Skopje.
November 19 – There was a time, not so long ago, that National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) College Soccer was the pathway to the professional game, and Major League Soccer stardom. However, with the rise of academies in the US, the pathway has stalled, and the relevance of the college game has faded.
November 18 – Sometimes you come across a person who appears to have become bigger than the organisation or institution they represent. FIFA seems to have found one – and it isn’t Lionel Messi.
By Samindra Kunti in Bucharest
November 18 – UEFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the associations of both Romania and Kosovo following the abandonment of their Nations League match as Kosovo walked off in injury time following chants of ‘Serbia’ by Romanian fans.