Football

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Governance

Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, president of the Asian Football Confederation, last week met with Fifa president Gianni Infantino to discuss topics including greater cooperation between the global…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Campeonato Brasileiro Série A football clubs Santos and Goiás have agreed shirt sponsorship deals with agribusiness company Kicaldo and sports entertainment firm MarjoSports, respectively.
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Media

UK pay-television broadcaster BT Sport has claimed a landmark with the delivery of the first live broadcast in 4K High Dynamic Range (4K HDR) and Dolby Atmos sound
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

French Ligue 1 football club AS Monaco has agreed a two-season partnership with Russian betting company BetCity
Football
Sponsorship & Marketing

Serie A club Inter Milan has signed an ‘Official Winter Partnership’ with stove brand Edilkamin for the next two seasons.
Football
Governance

Fifa has named the five members of the 'normalisation committee' it is appointing to run the Pakistan Football Federation, following its rejection in June of the election of Syed Ashfaq Hussain Shah as…
Football
Governance

Major League Soccer team Chicago Fire has announced that long-time chairman and owner Andrew Hauptman has sold his controlling interest in the club to Joe Mansueto
Football
Events

Uefa, the governing body of European football, has revealed details of the prize money available to clubs competing in this season’s Champions League and Europa League as it released the inaugural edition o…
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Media

The Belgian Pro League is looking to kick off its domestic broadcast rights auction “at the end of October or early November” despite still lacking consensus from clubs over the collective sale of the…
Football
Governance

World football’s governing body Fifa has issued a life ban to former South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) president Juan Ángel Napout, more than a year after he was sentenced to a nine-year pr…
Football
Governance

Professional service group PwC has been selected to support the substantial reform process for the Confederation of African Football (CAF) being overseen by Fifa, as initial meetings on the matter flagged…
Football
Stadia

The Chicago Fire has taken another step closer to playing at Soldier Field after the Chicago Park District voted to continue negotiations over the Major League Soccer team's use of the 61,500-seat stadium,…
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Events

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has announced today (Wednesday) that it has received bids from Russia, Chile and El Salvador to host its Beach Soccer World Cup in 2021.
Football
Industry Moves

Andrea Agnelli has been re-elected as chairman of football's European Club Association (ECA) for a further four years, until 2023
Football
Governance

Inter Milan president Steven Zhang has become the first Chinese board member of European football's European Club Association
Football
Events

Efforts from European football’s governing body Uefa and the continent’s elite clubs to reform the Champions League into a competition essentially reserved for the top teams have seemingly hit the buf…
Football
Governance

The death of former Conmebol president Nicolás Leoz has brought South American football one step closer to closing the book on an era of corruption. As global agencies and investment funds are taking advantage of the power vacuum, Callum McCarthy examines the current landscape and asks if and when that book can be closed for good.
Football
Industry Moves

DFL Digital Sports, the subsidiary of the German Football League (DFL) responsible for the distribution of the Bundesliga’s digital content, has announced the appointment of Bastian Zuber as chief operating o…