September 23 – A fourth-tier English club are waiting anxiously to discover whether their lucrative League Cup tie against top-flight Tottenham Hotspur can go ahead after a raft of their players tested positive for Covid-19.
September 23 – Concacaf have shifted the inaugural finals of their Nations League competition from March 2021 to June 2021 to give space in the calendar to get the first round of the federation’s World Cup qualifiers underway.
September 23 – Turkish club Trabzonspor are the latest to launch their own blockchain crypto-based Fan Tokens on the Socios.com platform, selling an initial 625,000 $TRA Fan Tokens in less than 5 minutes.
September 23 – Brazilian champions Flamengo wrapped up a dramatic week in the Copa Libertadores with a hard-fought 1-2 win against Barcelona in a game that had long been in doubt after local authorities in Ecuador closed the stadium.
September 23 – The American men’s national team won’t play or train during October’s international window because of the coronavirus pandemic.
September 23 – Serie A club Roma have been penalised with a 3-0 defeat following an administrative error in the make-up of their matchday squad in Saturday’s 0-0 draw against Hellas Verona.
September 22 – Outspoken Nigerian football boss Amaju Pinnick says he hasn’t ruled out taking on present incumbent Ahmad for the leadership of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) when elections take place next March.
September 21 – Roman Abramovich, the Russian oligarch bankrolling English Premier League club Chelsea, faces accusations of holding secret investments in players not owned by his club.
September 22 – Luis Rubiales was re-elected unopposed as president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) on Monday following the withdrawal in June of former Real Madrid and Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas.
September 22 – On Thursday, European champions Bayern Munich will face Europa League winners Sevilla in Budapest, but with as many as 2,100 Germans fans traveling to the Hungarian capital concerns over coronavirus infections are spreading.
September 22 – Plans for a phased return of fans to watch live sport events in England from October 1 have been scuppered by a surge in Covid-19 cases, a massively disappointing financial hit for less affluent clubs desperate to stay afloat.
September 22 – With the number of cases of Coronavirus spiking across the UK, three new positive Covid-19 cases have been confirmed following the latest round of English Premier League testing.
September 22 – The Premier League has the lowest percentage of minutes by players aged 21 or younger in Europe’s Big 5 leagues and the third lowest across the whole of Europe, according to the latest report from the CIES Football Observatory.
September 21 – Gareth Bale could stay at Tottenham Hotspur for longer than the one season loan the club have agreed with Real Madrid, according to his agent.
September 2022 – The first regional sponsor for the Qatar 2022 World Cup has been announced with GWC named as the tournament’s Official Logistics Provider.