Football

Fifa has today (Tuesday) imposed a fine of CHF220,000 (€201,000/$221,000) on the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) for breaking rules governing the international transfer and registration of minors by allowing LaLiga clubs Atletico de Madrid and Real Madrid to sign underage players from other countries.

The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) has opened legal proceedings in New York against International Soccer Marketing (ISM) in a bid to terminate its commercial partnership with the agency and recover $18m (€16.4m) paid in commissions, the first of a wave of proceedings the continental governing body has promised to launch.

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.

Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin has revealed that football’s European governing body would be open to the possibility of staging the Champions League final outside the continent.

The adjudicatory chamber of Fifa’s Ethics Committee has today (Tuesday) issued a five-year ban to former Executive Committee member Worawi Makudi on charges of forgery and falsification.

Frank McCourt, the former owner of Major League Baseball franchise the Los Angeles Dodgers, has pledged to return Olympique de Marseille to the upper echelons of European football after completing a takeover deal for the French Ligue 1 club.

Sportcast, the production arm of the German Football League (DFL), has entered into a joint venture with sports media and technology company Deltatre to form a new company, Sportec Solutions.

English Premier League football club Manchester City has continued the upward trend recorded in its financial results by nearly doubling its profits and posting record revenues for the 2015-16 period.

Gerard Lopez, president of Luxembourg-based private equity firm Genii Capital, has entered into exclusive negotiations to acquire French Ligue 1 football team Lille.

The prospect of the 2026 Fifa World Cup being hosted in the Americas was boosted today (Friday) after world football’s governing body effectively excluded bids from member associations (MAs) of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and European governing body Uefa.

The Fifa World Cup is set to be organised centrally by football’s global governing body rather than local organising committees after the organisation’s president, Gianni Infantino, unveiled a new roadmap for the future.

Danish Superliga football club FC Copenhagen has confirmed that talks are taking place over establishing a competition that could include the biggest clubs from Scandinavia, Scotland, the Netherlands and Belgium, amid continued disquiet over proposed reforms to the Uefa Champions League.

Football’s European Club Association (ECA) has offered to inject €60m ($66m) per season into the Uefa Europa League and clubs that participate in the qualifying phase of the Uefa Champions League from 2018.

Javier Tebas has been formally re-elected as president of LaLiga as the organising body for the top two divisions of Spanish football hailed continued progress in addressing the debts owed by clubs to tax authorities, stating they will be reduced to a residual level by the 2019-20 season.

Spanish LaLiga football club Real Madrid is set to press ahead with its long-held plans to undertake a major redevelopment of its Santiago Bernabeu stadium after unveiling an agreement for the venture with Madrid City Council today (Tuesday).

Digital sports media company Perform has agreed an extension to its exclusive partnership with Football DataCo, which manages and commercialises the official match data for the English Premier League, the English Football League and the Scottish Professional Football League.