Football

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?

North America’s Major League Soccer (MLS) has outlined plans to expand the number of teams in the competition to 28, while officials have welcomed an announcement from David Beckham’s business group regarding the securing of a stadium site in Miami for its proposed expansion franchise.

The FBI in the US is investigating the alleged role played by Sepp Blatter, the president of football’s global governing body Fifa, in a bribery scandal featuring sports marketing company ISL, according to UK public-service broadcaster the BBC.

Robert Elstone, CEO, Everton FC, writes exclusively for SportBusiness International on managing international expansion while looking after local fans

Fifa’s proposed reforms package has been rubbished by the European Club Association (ECA) representative body, which said today (Friday) that its members are “not prepared to be further ignored” by football’s global governing body.

Sixteen people from the world of football were charged by US prosecutors yesterday (Thursday) with participating in alleged bribery schemes surrounding marketing and media-rights deals in Latin and Central America.

Fifa’s Executive Committee has today (Thursday) unanimously approved the set of proposals put forward by the Reform Committee led by Francois Carrard (pictured), the former director general of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), as the potential expansion of the World Cup from 32 to 40 teams was discussed.

Two officials from Fifa, football’s global governing body, were arrested this (Thursday) morning following pre-dawn raids at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, Switzerland.

The world’s leading football leagues have agreed to form a new global organisation that is designed to work with Fifa on issues affecting professional football.

English Premier League champion Chelsea has taken a major step forward in its efforts to resolve its stadium issues by submitting a full planning application for the complete redevelopment of its Stamford Bridge home.

A consortium of high-profile Chinese investors has acquired a stake of just over 13 per cent in City Football Group (CFG), the parent company of English Premier League football club Manchester City, it was announced this (Tuesday) morning.

Italian football’s golden era of the 1980s and early 1990s is a distant memory, but after falling from the summit, there are now signs that it is on its way back up.

Exclusive interview with Christian Seifert, president of German football's DFL, on Fifa’s dysfunctional football family, maintaining the Bundesliga's social functions in a competitive global market, and why he’s using clichéd stereotypes about Germans to succeed in China.