By Osasu Obayiuwana
November 8 – The consequences of CAF’s decision to terminate its contract with Lagardere Sports will have an immediate impact on the ability of African football fans to watch games on television.
By Osasu Obayiuwana
November 8 – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) lost 26% of its cash reserves between March 2017 and May 2019, according to Mohamed El-Sherei (pictured), the body’s sacked Director of Finance.
By Paul Nicholson
November 8 – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) have responded to Lagardère Sports’ complaint over the termination of its rights contract arguing that the regional body had no choice following an Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) decision in 2017 that the contract was null and void.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 8 – In a move that is bound to incur the wrath of beIN Sports and will also have alarmed UEFA, Serie A have confirmed that the Italian SuperCup will be held in Saudi Arabia for the second consecutive year.
By Samindra Kunti in Cariacica
November 8 – Brazil and Italy will headline the quarter-finals of the U17 World Cup. In the round of 16, all the African teams were eliminated, including record-champions Nigeria.
November 8 – FIFA and the World Leagues Forum, the body representing professional leagues at worldwide level, have signed a cooperation agreement to work together on the development of the game despite previous disagreement over Gianni Infantino’s plans to revamp the international calendar.
By David Owen
November 8 – The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) formally elected the Pole, Witold Bańka, as its next president. He will succeed Scotland’s Sir Craig Reedie at the start of next year.
November 8 – US women’s football star Megan Rapinoe, who became a global icon after capturing the hearts of millions of fans worldwide during the women’s World Cup and who has led the campaign for gender equality, has accused football’s stakeholders of reacting insufficiently to the recent scourge of racist abuse.
November 8 – UEFA has launched its ‘Football Federations of the Future’ programme, an extension of the UEFA GROW initiative, which aims to give national federations the shared expertise and services to develop both commercially and in participation levels.
November 8 – Former Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger is out of the race to become the next head coach of Bayern Munich, according to reports in Germany.
November 8 – A police constable has been charged with murdering Dalian Atkinson who died following a taser incident.
By Paul Nicholson
November 7 – The decision by WADA to amend their 2021 World Anti-Doping Agency Code to reduce disciplinary sanctions for athletes who test positive for substances that are unrelated to sports performance will doubtless come as a relief for players, but it is a ruling that could conceivably cover recreational drugs.
November 7 – Having just completed his ban from football, Michel Platini is back in the media spotlight with a series of interviews giving his account on the current ills of the game and where he stands.
November 7 – Serie A have asked football’s lawmakers for the right to allow them to use five substitutes per match instead of three.
November 7 – Premier League fans are paying 31% more in England to follow their teams and the league than they were in 2014/15 season despite the cost of tickets having risen by just 1% over the same period.