Football

AC Milan is reportedly close to securing a site to develop a new 42,000-seat stadium, while fellow Serie A football club Parma has announced it has secured a new owner.

Italian Football Federation (FIGC) president Carlo Tavecchio has said he is keen to introduce goal-line technology (GLT) into Serie A next season, while Parma has been hit with a one point penalty for breaching financial regulations.

Jerome Valcke, the secretary general of Fifa, has indicated that Sepp Blatter, the president of football’s global governing body, will oppose a proposed January-February window for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Manchester United has announced that part-owner Edward Glazer will put three million of his shares in the English Premier League football club up for sale.

The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil generated the most social media content in history for a sports event. The host’s 7-1 defeat to Germany produced 35.6 million tweets alone, which remains a record number on Twitter for any live event. The eventual world champions Germany also received a 95-per-cent increase in their Twitter following during the World Cup campaign.

Cronulla Sharks chief executive Lyall Gorman wants the NRL rugby league team to launch a franchise in the A-League football competition.

Embattled Parma is set to become the latest Italian Serie A football club to fall under foreign ownership, with a Russian/Cypriot conglomerate likely to conclude a deal later this week.

The Lagardere Unlimited Stadium Solutions (LUSS) arm of media conglomerate Lagardere has strengthened its portfolio of leading sports venues by agreeing a 10-year deal to manage operations at Stockholm’s Friends Arena.

Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke has stated it will be a long time before women receive the same pay as men at World Cups, dismissing as “nonsense” suggestions that the controversial use of artificial turf at the 2015 Women’s World Cup is discriminatory.

Uefa has announced that its new Nations League national team competition will be introduced in 2018, while European football’s governing body has awarded its Women’s Euro 2017 tournament to the Netherlands.

Football clubs in Germany’s top-tier Bundesliga have voted to approve the use of goal-line technology (GLT) from the start of the 2015-16 season.

David Beckham’s business group has maintained his plan to secure a Major League Soccer (MLS) team for Miami will happen adding they hope to have “positive and exciting news” soon, while the former England captain and British business partner Simon Fuller have signed a “groundbreaking” joint venture with Global Brands Group.

Manchester City has broken through the £300m (€378m/$471.7m) revenue barrier for the first time as the English Premier League champion declared its confidence that it will meet Financial Fair Play regulations set by Uefa, football’s European governing body.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter claims world football’s governing body is not responsible for the rights of labourers working on stadium construction for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.

Qatar has revealed the design of its fourth proposed host venue for the 2022 Fifa World Cup on the fourth anniversary of its successful bid for the national team football tournament.