Uefa

An internal investigation by Uefa, football’s European administrative body, has found that former general secretary Gianni Infantino and current president Aleksander Ceferin did not break any rules when a €4m ($4.4m) loan was handed to the sport’s governing organisation in Slovenia in June 2015.

The European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) umbrella organisation has today (Friday) stepped up its campaign against Uefa’s reforms for the Champions League by announcing it will break an agreement that currently prevents European and domestic games from clashing.

European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) chairman Lars-Christer Olsson has said he is confident the controversial reform plans for the Champions League can be overturned, adding a “deal is not done” with the matter set to be further debated at a meeting later this month.

New Uefa president Aleksander Čeferin is walking a tightrope between the demands of Europe’s football leagues and the continent’s elite clubs over the revamp of European club competitions. Frank Dunne talks to football insiders about how it will all play out.

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has ordered Polish Ekstraklasa team Legia Warsaw to play its next home Champions League match against Spanish Liga club Real Madrid behind closed doors as a punishment for crowd trouble in an earlier match.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has criticised attempts to “undermine” Russia’s staging of the 2018 World Cup amid the country’s doping crisis, as world football’s governing body today (Friday) appointed PwC Switzerland as its statutory auditor and hired Edward Hanover to the newly created position of chief compliance officer.

The leading contender to become the new president of Uefa has outlined his determination to counter the growing power of Europe’s leading football clubs, ahead of the election for the top job at the governing body tomorrow (Wednesday).

The European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) organisation has hit out at the “unacceptable” reforms that have been implemented for Uefa’s club competitions stating that the changes breach the terms of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between it and the European governing body.

European football’s governing body Uefa will agree to reform measures for the Champions League that will see the continent’s top four leagues granted automatic qualification for four teams each, according to the ESPN FC website.

Spanish Football Association (RFEF) president Ángel María Villar Llona will run for the top job at European football’s governing body Uefa, a position he currently holds on an interim basis.

European football’s governing body Uefa has revealed that revenue at Euro 2016 amounted to €1.93bn ($2.13bn), up 34 per cent on the total collected at the 2012 edition of the quadrennial national team tournament.

Just in case you were too busy to notice, June 23 was Olympic Day, held to mark the founding of the International Olympic Committee by Baron Pierre de Coubertin back in 1894.

Goal-line technology company GoalControl has filed a complaint to Germany’s Federal Cartel Office, the Bundeskartellamt, over the choice of European football’s governing body Uefa to utilise GLT systems from rival Hawk-Eye for its ongoing Euro 2016 tournament.