Football

English Premier League team Tottenham Hotspur has had revised plans to develop what will be London’s biggest club football stadium approved by its local Haringey Council.

Spanish LaLiga football club Real Madrid has suffered a fresh blow in its efforts to redevelop the Santiago Bernabeu stadium after the city council rejected the plans, stating they were not in the public interest.

Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) has reduced its Major League Soccer (MLS) ownership interest to a single franchise after a group led by Mexican-American businessman Gabriel Brener acquired its interests in Houston Dynamo.

Dutch Eredivisie football club FC Twente has been banned from European competition for three seasons after the Dutch Football Association (KNVB) ruled it “deliberately misled” the governing body over its relationship with Doyen Sports Investments, a subsidiary of private investment fund Doyen Group.

Real Madrid explained its new data-driven fan engagement project with Microsoft to an international group of journalists and analysts in Madrid in November. SportBusiness Group analyst Lukas Zajancauskas was there.

Hassan Al-Thawadi, secretary general of the organising committee for the 2022 Fifa World Cup, has said Qatar has been unfairly “singled out” for criticism surrounding its preparations for the national team football event, stressing that no labourer has died on tournament construction sites.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has dismissed David Nakhid’s appeal against his exclusion from the race to become the next president of football’s global governing body Fifa.

The South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) will hold elections on January 26 to form a new Executive Committee designed to instigate major reform at the governing body, following the latest developments in the Fifa corruption scandal.

Uefa has confirmed it is considering introducing goal-line technology (GLT) for Euro 2016 ahead of its possible use in the Champions League and Europa League next season, while prize money has been substantially raised for next summer’s edition of the leading national team event of European football’s governing body.

The 2015 UEFA Champions League semi-finals presented an opportunity to enhance customer datasets by adding social media activity generated around the matches.

English football club Leicester City took a data-driven approach to season ticket sales for the 2015/16 Premier League season, with a specific focus on improving communication with groups identified as at risk of not renewing.

Uefa president Michel Platini has lost his appeal to overturn his 90-day provisional suspension from taking part in football-related activity, but the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has today (Friday) ruled that world football’s governing body Fifa must not seek to extend the current measures.

Spanish LaLiga champion Barcelona has lost out in a bid to secure a trademark for the shield-shaped outline of its club crest after European Union (EU) judges ruled today (Thursday) that it was not distinctive enough to be linked solely to the Catalan football club.

The Football League, which operates the three divisions below the English Premier League, has announced that chairman Greg Clarke will step down at the end of the current 2015-16 season.

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has opted to go against its own statutes and not appoint an interim president, with its three previous leaders now indicted in the Fifa bribery case.

Digital billboard replacement (DBR) – technology that enables a television viewer’s location or interest to dictate the brands they see on advertising hoardings in the stadium – has been hyped for decades, but has yet to reach the mass market. Has one tech company finally made a breakthrough?