Football

Real Madrid has announced that it was able to achieve €620.1m ($693.9m) in operating revenue during the 2015-16 financial year, the first time that the Spanish LaLiga football club has surpassed the €600m mark.

Palermo president Maurizio Zamparini has said that he has agreed a deal to sell a majority stake in the Italian Serie A football club to a Chinese state-backed fund.

Javier Tebas is poised to continue as president of LaLiga after the organising body for the top two divisions of Spanish football confirmed his provisional re-election.

Lega B, which oversees the running of the second tier of Italian club football, has named sports data and technology company Genius Sports as its official betting data partner.

The Pitch International agency has announced that The O2 arena in London, England will host the inaugural edition of a new competition designed to showcase football legends.

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.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has made a fresh proposal to expand the World Cup to 48 teams, as part of efforts by world football’s governing body to open up its showpiece tournament to more nations.

The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) has today (Monday) announced an expansion of the Copa Libertadores, along with confirming a new calendar model for its showpiece club competition.

English Premier League football club Arsenal has recorded a significant reduction in profit, but enhanced revenue figures, in its financial results for the year ending May 31, 2016.

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.

The new interactive CityPulse Wall in City Square at the Etihad Stadium allows fans to interrogate large live and historic data sets. Gino di Castri reports on the role it is playing in technology firm SAP's sponsorship of Manchester City.

Philippe Le Floc’h, a former marketing director at Uefa, football’s European governing body, has been appointed as the new chief commercial officer at the sport’s global administrative organisation, Fifa.

Qatar’s Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy, which is responsible for delivering the stadia and infrastructure for football’s Fifa World Cup in 2022, has unveiled plans for a new range of fan villages that will serve supporters during the tournament.

The general secretary of the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has said the body will leave the restructuring of Indian club football in the hands of the sport’s governing body in the country, the All India Football Federation (AIFF).

The League Managers Association (LMA), which represents current and former football managers in England, has called on the Daily Telegraph newspaper to provide full disclosure of any information it has on alleged corruption within the game.

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.