Football

The Argentine Footballers’ Union (FAA) has maintained it will press ahead with strike action this weekend over unpaid salaries, as the Argentine Football Association (AFA) threatened sanctions in a bid to ensure the domestic game returns to action.

English Premier League football club Leicester City has revealed pre-tax profit of £16.4m (€19.2m/$20.1m) in the year ending May 31, 2016, and also confirmed that it will challenge a Football League charge of breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules in 2014.

Spanish LaLiga football club Barcelona has unveiled plans to develop the world’s leading centre for sporting innovation.

English Premier League football club Liverpool has announced losses of £19.8m (€23.1m/$24.4m) for the 12 months to May 31, 2016, despite reporting record levels of revenue in the same period

Frank Dunne investigates how Lagardère’s bold investment in Africa is starting to reap rewards.

Former Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke has filed an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against his 10-year ban from football, while the sport’s global governing body has today (Tuesday) issued sanctions against another former member of its Executive Committee.

English Premier League football club Liverpool has announced that Peter Moore will become its new chief executive.

Chinese investment fund IDG Capital Partners has completed a deal to acquire a 20 per cent stake in Olympique Lyonnais after the French Ligue 1 football club confirmed that it had deposited the second payment under an agreement initially struck in August.

Football Federation Australia (FFA) has revealed that expanding the top-tier A-League would not be feasible under its current structure, as it confirmed that discussions will begin this week over the reworking of the competition’s ownership and operating model to allow further franchises to be added in the future.

A collective of Nordic football associations has decided to drop plans to bid for Uefa Euro 2024 in favour of exploring efforts to land national team events in women’s and youth football.

Italian Serie A football club AS Roma has been given permission by the city of Rome to press ahead with its plans to develop a new 52,500-capacity stadium.

African football associations are set to request at least 10 places in the newly expanded Fifa World Cup, double the current number assigned to nations from the Confederation of African Football (CAF).

A rival Chinese bid has emerged for English Premier League football club Southampton amid problems for another proposed deal, according to multiple reports.

AMB Group, the parent company of the Atlanta Falcons and Atlanta United FC has released a video showcasing the sustainability features at their new Mercedes-Benz stadium

The drawn-out Chinese takeover of Italian Serie A football club AC Milan will finally close on March 3, according to Reuters.

Myanmar Football Federation (MFF) chairman Zaw Zaw has said the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) bloc has held talks about launching a joint bid for the 2034 Fifa World Cup.