Football

South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) treasurer and Bolivian Football Federation (FBF) president Carlos Chavez has been jailed amid corruption allegations, while this year’s edition of the Superclassic of the Americas clash between Argentina and Brazil has been postponed in the wake of the ongoing investigation into corruption in world football.

The upper echelons of European football have continued to achieve strong revenue growth over the last few years, seemingly unaffected by the challenges faced by the wider economy. Deloitte’s Sports Business Group examines the financial performance and characteristics of Europe’s top leagues. By Austin Houlihan and Andy Shaffer, with extracts from the Deloitte Annual Review of Football Finance 2015.

Audience ratings and trends for major events in 2014-15 including the Fifa World Cup, Winter Olympics, Tour de France and more, with data from Eurodata TV Worldwide.The Fifa World Cup 2014 generated the largest average audience for a major international sports event (as opposed to domestic leagues and competitions) in four of the five major European markets in 2014-15. 

South Korean tycoon Chung Mong-joon has admitted he is considering running for the presidency of Fifa and has slammed football’s governing body for allowing Sepp Blatter to remain at the helm until next February.

Fifa has said that the election for its new president will be held on February 26 as incumbent Sepp Blatter confirmed he would not stand again and football’s global governing body revealed that an 11-person task force would be formed to address reform issues.

David Beckham’s business group has opted for a site next to Marlins Park, home of MLB baseball team the Miami Marlins, as its preferred location for a stadium that will house a new Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise.

The 20 highest-earning football clubs broke through the €6bn revenue mark for the first time in 2013-14, according to the Deloitte Football Money League.

Football is increasing in popularity and gaining in value for US broadcasters, as data from TV Sports Markets Rights Tracker shows.

Josep Maria Bartomeu has been re-elected to serve a new six-year term as president of Barcelona, as the Spanish Liga football club’s members opted for continuity over the promise of reform put forward by former president Joan Laporta.

Coca-Cola and McDonald’s, two of Fifa’s major partners, have urged football’s global governing body to reform ahead of a meeting today (Monday) to set a date for a vote to replace outgoing president Sepp Blatter.

The Major League Soccer Players Union, the organisation that represents players in North America’s MLS, has voted to ratify a collective bargaining agreement it struck with the league earlier this year.

How and why different types of football fans engage with the sport, and how this varies around the world, with data from the FANS.PASSIONS.BRANDS study by Havas Sports & Entertainment and the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Innovation Lab.

Fifa’s ethics committee has called for a change in rules to allow for more information to be released about ongoing investigations at football’s global governing body.

Barcelona has reported record turnover of €608m ($669m) for the 2014-15 financial year ahead of the Spanish Liga football club’s presidential election tomorrow (Saturday).

US senators yesterday (Wednesday) called for an extensive overhaul in the way football is administered by both global and US governing bodies, as a collective of labour union and human rights groups stepped up their campaign for reform at Fifa.

Sports and betting-related data company Sportradar has agreed a deal to become the official sports data partner of the Russian Football Premier League (RFPL) club competition.