Football

European football’s governing body Uefa has appointed the IMG Licensing division of the IMG agency as master licensee for all of its national team competitions until 2017.

English and French champions Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) have agreed settlements with Uefa involving €60m ($83.4m) fines for breaching Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, but maintained their unhappiness at the assessment of their financial status by football’s European governing body.

Doyen Sports, an investment fund that finances player purchases for professional football clubs, has announced its intention to expand into the English Premier League.

The relationship between the English Premier League and women has been placed firmly in the spotlight with the furore around CEO Richard Scudamore's leaked e-mails. However, football fandom is far from male-dominated, as demonstrated by new sports fan research, commissioned by Advanced Ticketing, which reveals that UK female football fans are as passionate about The Beautiful Game as their male counterparts. 

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has admitted the decision of world football’s governing body to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar was “a mistake”, adding it was now “probable” that the tournament would be played in the winter months.

Bayern Munich will become the first German Bundesliga football club to develop an in-house secondary ticketing platform.

Jean-Luc Dehaene, chairman of the investigatory chamber of Uefa’s Club Financial Control Body, has died at the age of 73, it was announced today (Thursday).

Four leading names from the sports industry met to discuss the commercial health and future direction of the FIFA World Cup. Here are some audio excerpts and vox-pops. 

Football’s global governing body Fifa has welcomed the introduction of labour law reforms by Qatar’s government and has announced it will suspend a planned trip to the host of its 2022 World Cup national team tournament in order to fully evaluate the new measures.

Jeffrey Webb, the president of Concacaf, football’s governing body in North and Central America and the Caribbean, has claimed that the region should be awarded the hosting rights for the 2026 Fifa World Cup.

The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has signed a formal cooperation agreement with Interpol, the International Criminal Police Organisation, in an effort to intensify ongoing work to combat match-fixing in the sport.

What is the best way for a European football club to package its in-house editorial content? A subscription TV channel or a free-to-view YouTube channel? Or somewhere in between? Andy Fry looked at two case studies: Barcelona and Liverpool.

Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) president Jeffrey Webb has been announced as a speaker at the seventh edition of the Leaders Sport Summit, which takes place on October 8-9 at Stamford Bridge in London.

English Premier League football club Aston Villa is seeking a new owner after American businessman Randy Lerner today confirmed speculation that he would seek to sell the team.

Fifa has announced that five countries will compete for the hosting rights to the 2019 Women’s World Cup, while four nations have entered bids for the Club World Cup from 2015 to 2018.

Fifa president Sepp Blatter has dropped the strongest hint yet that he is ready to stand for re-election as head of football’s global governing body.