Uefa

European football’s governing body Uefa has appointed the IMG Licensing division of the IMG agency as master licensee for all of its national team competitions until 2017.

English and French champions Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) have agreed settlements with Uefa involving €60m ($83.4m) fines for breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, but maintained their unhappiness at the assessment of their financial status by football’s European governing body.

Jean-Luc Dehaene, chairman of the investigatory chamber of Uefa’s Club Financial Control Body, has died at the age of 73, it was announced today (Thursday).

The Association of European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) has labelled “all scenarios” on the rescheduling of the 2022 Fifa World Cup as “damaging” to its members competitions and has criticised Uefa’s proposed Nations League event.

French Ligue 1 champion Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and English Premier League club Manchester City are facing fines of €60m ($83.4m) and restrictions on their Champions League squads for next season for breaking Uefa’s Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, according to multiple reports.

Several football clubs have been offered settlements by European governing body Uefa for breaching financial fair play (FFP) rules.

Uefa has announced that 19 members associations have put forward final bid dossiers for Euro 2020, with London and Munich set to compete for the showpiece package of the national team football tournament.

The race to land the showpiece hosting package for Uefa Euro 2020 was thrown wide open today as the Turkish Football Federation (TFF) elected to withdraw its bid in favour of concentrating its efforts on landing the 2024 edition of the national team tournament.

Michel Platini, president of European football’s governing body Uefa, said he does not expect clubs that breach its Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules to be banned from next season’s Champions League or Europa League club competitions.

The field of contenders for hosting rights to Uefa Euro 2020 has been narrowed ahead of Friday’s deadline for submission of final bid dossiers, with Poland, Portugal and the Czech Republic all withdrawing their candidacies for the national team football tournament.

Italian Olympic Committee (CONI) president Giovanni Malagò has said Rome will be the only bid presented for the Uefa Euro 2020 national team football competition, adding that talks are continuing over a possible effort by the city to land the 2024 Olympic Games.

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with football’s European governing body Uefa for mutual co-operation in the development of the game.

Uefa president Michel Platini has claimed that he is the only person capable of defeating Fifa president Sepp Blatter in an election for the top job at football’s global governing body.

Uefa, football’s European governing body, confirmed this (Thursday) morning that it will introduce a new Nations League competition for its national teams from 2018.

The Uefa Professional Football Strategy Council (PFSC) has called for the regulation of the percentage of commission agents receive in player transfers and has supported the European football governing body’s ongoing drive to eradicate the practice of third-party ownership (TPO).

The Football Association of Finland has elected to withdraw Helsinki’s bid to become one of the host cities for the Uefa Euro 2020 national team tournament in order to focus on attracting other events.