Football

Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has agreed an endorsement deal with online CFD trading company XTrade.

Fifa’s Disciplinary Committee has today (Tuesday) imposed sanctions on several leading clubs for breaches relating to third-party influence or third-party ownership of players’ economic rights (TPO), with embattled Dutch Eredivisie outfit FC Twente among those punished.

Fifa president Gianni Infantino has given his tentative backing to a joint bid from Argentina and Uruguay for the 2030 World Cup, stating he is open to reversing the traditional stance of world football’s governing body in opposing co-hosting of its showpiece national team competition.

English Premier League football clubs have agreed to a restructuring of the Short Term Cost Control (STCC) rules that limit the amount of money they can spend on player wages.

The Malaysia FA Cup (Piala FA Malaysia) is a national knock–out football competition organised by the Football Malaysia Limited Liability Partnership with supervisional help from the Football Association of Malaysia.

The International Champions Cup (ICC) is a pre-season football club competition featuring some of the world's biggest clubs and hosted in growing football markets of economic importance.

In 2014, Japanese carmaker Nissan agreed a partnership with the Uefa Champions League (UCL). The challenge was to create an integrated campaign that could be activated in over 90 countries, deliver a strong business impact and bring to life Nissan’s core brand pillars of 'Innovation and Excitement'.

The investigatory chamber of the Fifa Ethics Committee has today (Tuesday) elected to open formal proceedings regarding the process that led to the awarding of hosting rights for the 2006 World Cup to Germany.

LaLiga, the organising body of the top two divisions of Spanish football, has entered into a first-of-its-kind partnership with United Arab Emirates-based club Al-Ahli.

Organisers of the Qatar 2022 Fifa World Cup have moved to alleviate fears over accommodation provision at the national team football tournament by unveiling a proposal to use Bedouin-style tents in desert areas close to stadiums.

Chinese conglomerate the Wanda Group has said its top-tier commercial partnership with world football’s governing body Fifa will leave it “better placed” to help decide where future editions of major events such as the World Cup take place.

Argentinian football superstar Lionel Messi has been named a global brand ambassador of Chinese telecommunications company Huawei.

Fifa, football’s global governing body, has confirmed that it posted a loss of $122m (€108m) in 2015 – its first deficit since 2002.

Fired Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has joined Sepp Blatter in being placed under criminal investigation by Switzerland’s attorney general, while the former Fifa president has formally submitted an appeal against his ban from world football to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

South Africa’s Sports Minister, Fikile Mbalula, has fired back at claims his country paid a $10m (€9.1m) bribe to help secure hosting rights to the 2010 Fifa World Cup, adding that the allegation has cast reputational damage of “monumental proportions” on the nation.

Susana Monje, financial vice-president of Spanish Liga football club Barcelona, believes a European Super League comprising the continent’s elite teams must be promoted “from a position where clubs are in control”.