July 19 – Former French captain Hugo Lloris has waded into the Argentina racism row by declaring that racist chants about French players were an “attack on French people”.
July 19 – Following the new refereeing protocol introduced for the first time by UEFA at Euro 2024, club captains in the Belgian league will be the only players allowed to communicate with the referee on key decisions in domestic league matches.
July 19 – The former president of Turkish club Trabzonspor, İbrahim Ethem Hacıosmanoğlu (pictured) has been elected as Turkish Football Federation (TFF) president at the TFF Financial and Electoral General Assembly.
July 19 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has signed a sponsorship with bookmaker Inbet. The Bulgarian gaming company replaces financial firm Money + as the main sponsor of the Bulgarian football referees.
July 19 – The Gibraltar FA has filed a formal complaint to UEFA after Spanish players chanted ‘Gibraltar is Spanish’ during their Euro 24 celebrations in Madrid after beating England 2-1.
July 19 – UEFA has renewed sports marketing agency Two Circles as its exclusive sponsorship agency for UEFA Women’s Football. The agency will also handle media sales for the Women’s Champions League for the 2025-2030 commercial cycle.
July 19 – Eintracht Frankfurt have agreed a three-year deal with Kumho, which will see the Korean tyre brand become the club’s official tyre partner until 2027.
July 19 – FIFA has selected On Location, a premium global hospitality and travel agency, to be the official high-end hospitality provider of the 2026 World Cup being hosted jointly hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.
July 19 – International betting brand Parimatch has agreed an exclusive regional partnership with the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
July 19 – West Ham United are plotting a move for 33-year-old France midfielder N’Golo Kante. The former Chelsea man who put on an impressive display at Euro 2024, has spent the past season in Saudi Arabia with Al Ittihad.
July 18 – On the eve of a scheduled extraordinary FIFA council meeting to decide the fate of Israel’s immediate future in international football, human rights and pressure groups have called on the world governing body to suspend the country from the international game.
July 18 – The racism row concerning members of Argentina’s Copa America-winning squad has taken a dramatic twist with the sacking by the government of undersecretary for Sports, Julio Garro.
July 18 – Angel City have agreed terms for the sale of a ‘majority’ stake in the LA-based NWSL club to Willow Bay and Bob Iger, giving the club a $250 million valuation, the highest of any women’s team in professional sport worldwide.
July 18 – Real Madrid is the world’s most valuable football club brand, according to the latest report by brand evaluation consultancy Brand Finance.
July 18 – Italian prosecutors have requested that former Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, one of the most powerful figures in European football in his heyday, and other former executives of the club stand trial over allegations of false accounting during their tenure.