Football

Michel Platini has confirmed that his bid to become the next president of football’s world governing body Fifa has been scrapped.

Paraguayan state prosecutors yesterday (Thursday) raided the headquarters of the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) in the latest development in the corruption scandal engulfing world football, while Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Marco Polo Del Nero is set to embark on another period of leave in a bid to clear his name.

Video replays could be used in professional football from as early as next season after the International Football Association Board (IFAB) strongly recommended that technology be introduced to assist referees during games.

The English Premier League is seeking its first creative agency as part of a major brand overhaul that will see the top-tier club football competition drop its title sponsor category for the first time in its history.

Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) president Marco Polo Del Nero has resumed his position at the helm of the governing body after completing a 45-day leave of absence taken to fight charges he is involved in world football’s wide-ranging corruption scandal.

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has hit back at the recommended nine-year ban put forward by the Ethics Committee of world football’s governing body, as its adjudicatory chamber today (Wednesday) elected to grant a 45-day extension to the French official’s suspension.

Suspended Fifa secretary general Jérôme Valcke is facing a nine-year ban after the investigatory chamber of the Ethics Committee of football’s global governing body today (Tuesday) laid out its recommendations concerning an alleged World Cup ticket scandal.

The Korea Football Association (KFA) has announced that it plans to bid to host the Asian Cup national team tournament in 2023, becoming the second major nation to target the competition this week.

The Chinese Football Association (CFA) has announced that it is planning to bid to host the 2023 edition of the Asian Cup national team tournament.

Musa Bility's appeal to overturn his exclusion from the election process to become the next president of Fifa, football’s global governing body, has been dismissed by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

San Antonio’s bid to attract a Major League Soccer (MLS) team has received a boost after Spurs Sports & Entertainment (SS&E), which operates the San Antonio Spurs NBA basketball franchise, struck a long-term lease at Toyota Field.

Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo has entered into a partnership with Smaaash Entertainment, a sports entertainment company co-owned by Indian cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.

Fifa has unveiled the reforms that football’s global governing body will ask its members to adopt at a special congress in February 2016.

The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) has today (Tuesday) said it will submit itself to an investigation by Fifa’s Ethics Committee and ordered an independent forensic audit into its unsuccessful joint bid with neighbours Belgium for the 2018 World Cup.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini today (Monday) came out fighting against their eight-year bans handed out by Fifa’s Ethics Committee, with the Fifa president describing himself as a “punching ball” and the Uefa leader, previously regarded as Blatter’s heir apparent, labelling proceedings “a true mockery.”

The adjudicatory chamber of Fifa’s Ethics Committee has today (Monday) issued eight-year bans to president Sepp Blatter and Uefa president Michel Platini, but has determined that the case concerned failed to constitute a corrupt payment.