August 27 – With UEFA set to unveil the match-ups for its new look Champions League this Thursday at the League Phase Draw, the confederation will also pay homage to its past and Champions League all-time leading goalscorer, Cristiano Ronaldo.
August 27 – Manchester City and EA Sports have agreed a multi-year renewal of their partnership, first signed in 2011, and now going into its fifth term. It is a partnership that has evolved into more than just image rights over the years to embrace a pro e-sports team as well as separate content generation.
August 27 – Concacaf has just completed the latest of its Executive Mentorship Program (EMP) workshops in Trinidad and Tobago and St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
August 27 – Euro 2024 generated an economic impact of more than €7.4 billion in Germany, according to a Nielsen Sports study.
August 27 – Inter Milan have debuted cryptocurrency exchange Gate.io in a one-season sleeve sponsorship.
August 27 – Charges have been dropped against Colombian FA chief and FIFA Council member Ramón Jesurún more than a month after he and his son were arrested in the chaos that unfolded at the Copa America final in Miami.
August 27 – Together with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, FIFA president Gianni Infantino attended the maiden Esports World Cup in Riyadh.
August 27 – Tributes are pouring in from across the game following the death at 76 of former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson.
July 27 – Battling to re-establish football across the nation, Somalia’s football ecosystem took a step forward on the pitch with Dekedda SC becoming the first club in nearly four decades to qualify for the second preliminary round of the CAF Champions League.
August 27 – Christoph Daum, the charismatic German coach who was denied the national team job after failing a cocaine test, has died aged 70 from lung cancer.
August 27 – Concacaf has launched itself into the youth gaming market in partnership with gaming and esports specialists GGTECH, with the first project being a football-specific Fortnite map, ‘Concacaf Kick-Off Stadium’.
August 27 – Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia called on the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) to impose harsh punishments after fighting broke out at end of the match of the U17 match between FC National and Levski.
August 27 – Augsburg assistant manager Lars Knudsen, has been appointed to lead the Danish national team on a temporary basis in September against Switzerland and Serbia in the Nations League with interim coach Morten Wieghorst unavailable because of sick leave.
August 23 – Women’s football in the US has made landmark changes to its player contract agreements with the NWSL Players Association and NWSL having reached a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA) that will include revenue sharing and the abolishing of the college draft, a peculiarity of the US pro sports market.
August 23 – With the draw for the reformatted Champions league to take place next week, UEFA has unveiled a new brand identity for competition, tagged ‘Kick of Light’.