October 29 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has committed to expanding the number of teams in its blue riband club competition, the AFC Champions League, to 40 clubs from 2021.
October 29 – Following a spate of controversial VAR decisions in the English top flight, some of them totally absurd, Premier League chiefs have finally agreed to consider a change in policy on the use of pitch-side monitors.
October 29 – Vlatko Andonovski has been named as the new head coach of the United States World Cup-winning women’s team.
By David Owen
October 29 – Inter Milan, lying hot on Juventus’s heels after a promising start to the Serie A season, have reported a net loss of €48.4 million, attributed to “significant investments” made to strengthen on-field performance.
October 29 – Jaap Stam has resigned as coach of Feyenoord after a disappointing seven-month spell in Rotterdam.
October 29 – Former French international star Franck Ribery has been suspended for three Serie A matches after twice pushing an assistant referee in Fiorentina’s 2-1 home defeat by Lazio on Sunday.
October 29 – Haringey Borough and Yeovil Town say they “want the real winner to be football” when they re-stage an FA Cup match tonight after the original game was abandoned when the team players walked off the pitch because of racial abuse.
October 29 – Coca-Cola – sponsors of FIFA’s World Cup since 1974 and UEFA’s Euros since 1985 – has expanded its club football partnerships with a two-year deal with Serie A giants Juventus.
October 28 – Ghana has elected a new FA president more than a year after a corruption scandal forced a major shake-up of the game in the West African nation.
October 28 – Brazil coach Tite has refrained from calling up home-based players for November friendlies against Saudi Arabia and South Korea, avoiding another club versus country row.
By Samindra Kuni in Cariacica, Brazil
October 28 – Hosts Brazil kicked off the U-17 World Cup with a comfortable 4-1 win over Canada. Nigeria, Angola and Senegal all won their games, but European champions Netherlands suffered a surprise 3-0 defeat by Japan.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 28 – Plans are afoot to create a ground-breaking all-island domestic league in Ireland that would completely change the landscape of the sport on both sides of the border.
October 28 – SIGA (Sports Integrity Global Alliance) has expanded its base in South America with the addition of Brazil’s Pacto pelo Esporte joining the integrity organisation’s growing membership and adding a corporate backbone to the sports integrity lobby.
October 28 – The AFC Cup 2019 Final between DPR Korea’s 4.25 SC and Al Ahed, from Lebanon, which was switched from North Korea to Shanghai, has been moved again. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, will not host the final on November 4, two days later than the originally scheduled November 2 date.
By David Owen
If you were ransacking Manchester United’s illustrious history in search of clues to help the Premier League aristocrats out of their current trough of underperformance, the inter-war years are not the first place you would look. With only two trophies – the Championship and the FA Cup – to aim for, the Red Devils endured a major silverware drought between their second league title in 1911 and their second Cup 37 years later.