Football

English Premier League football club Tottenham Hotspur is in advanced talks with the country’s Football Association to play home matches at Wembley Stadium during the 2017-18 season.

The city of Montpellier has announced plans to develop a new stadium for its French Ligue 1 football club.

Betting industry services supplier SIS and sports betting and gaming technology company Genius Sports have signed a deal that will see them collaborate on the distribution of Spanish football in-play data.

The Asian Champions League has been transformed in recent years, but there is still a long way to go if the tournament is to fulfil its potential for Asian football’s stakeholders. John Duerden reports.

Kosovo has today (Tuesday) been accepted as a member of European football’s governing body Uefa, while Fifa has been ordered by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to accept Gibraltar as a member – decisions which open the path to both nations being admitted to the qualifying process for the 2018 World Cup.

South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) president Alejandro Dominguez has said talks are taking place concerning a major overhaul for the Copa Libertadores, the governing body’s showpiece club tournament.

AC Milan has reported a loss of €89.3m ($101.9m) for the 2015 financial year as takeover rumours continue to swirl around the embattled Italian Serie A football club.

The national football associations of the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) nations have decided that Kuwait will host the Gulf Cup national team tournament later this year if sporting sanctions are overturned on the Arab state, while plans have progressed to form a Gulf Football Federation (GFF).

A 25,000-seat stadium will serve as the centrepiece of a wider $1bn (€882m) development project in Detroit, should Major League Soccer (MLS) give its approval for a new expansion franchise to launch in the Michigan city.

LaLiga, the organising body that operates the football league structure in Spain, has established a partnership with the Nigerian National Professional Football League (NPFL) as part of a move to strengthen its sporting, cultural and business ties with the African country.

Tom Gores and Dan Gilbert, owners of teams in North American basketball league the NBA, have announced they will join forces in an effort to bring a Major League Soccer (MLS) expansion franchise to Detroit.

Carter Ladd, Major League Soccer VP of business development speaks to Ollie Silverton, the GMR/SportBusiness Group Ultimate Sports and Entertainment Apprentice, about football's growth in the US.

The Football Association (FA) in England has praised the families of 96 football fans who died as a result of the Hillsborough stadium disaster 27 years ago after a jury today (Tuesday) said that the victims were unlawfully killed.

Chinese retail giant Suning is in talks to acquire a stake in Italian Serie A football club Inter Milan.

Harold Mayne-Nicholls, a key figure in the process to award hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 Fifa World Cups, has today (Friday) seen his ban from world football reduced from seven to three years.

World football’s governing body Fifa has today (Friday) announced the creation of an oversight body with independent members to monitor the systems in place to ensure “decent working conditions” at World Cup stadiums.