Football

Marco Polo del Nero will assume the presidency of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) in 2015 for a four-year term after being elected unopposed as Jose Maria Marin’s replacement.

Major League Soccer (MLS) commissioner Don Garber has announced Atlanta as the latest location to be awarded an expansion franchise for the North American football competition.

The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has ratified plans to expand its flagship Asian Cup national team competition from 16 to 24 teams at its executive committee meeting in Kuala Lumpur.

Italian football registered a six per cent fall in attendance during the 2012-13 season while the debt of Serie A clubs increased to €2.947bn ($4.1bn), according to an annual report by the Italian Football Federation (FIGC).

The much-hyped Indian Super League (ISL) took another major step towards its launch on Sunday as the likes of Spanish Liga club Atletico Madrid, cricket legends Sachin Tendulkar (pictured) and Sourav Ganguly and Bollywood stars were confirmed as owners of the eight teams that will compete in the new football competition.

Dutch Eredivisie football club PSV Eindhoven has joined forces with sports data and video content company Infostrada Sports and pan-European telecommunications firm UPC to launch its Connected Stadium project.

Atlanta is poised to be announced as the location of Major League Soccer’s (MLS) latest expansion franchise, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

The Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football (Concacaf) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with football’s European governing body Uefa for mutual co-operation in the development of the game.

Spanish Liga football giant Barcelona has received some welcome good news after its members voted to back the redevelopment project for its Nou Camp stadium in what was only the second referendum in the club’s 115-year history.

Spanish Liga football club Valencia has partnered with the Two Circles sports agency in a bid to improve its marketing strategy to help it better understand its supporters.

The AUF, football’s governing body in Uruguay, has insisted that its national team’s participation in the 2014 Fifa World Cup in Brazil is not under threat despite the national association being suspended by Conmebol, the sport’s governing body in Latin America.

Marketing agency MediaCom Sport has entered into a commercial partnership with Barcelona and Brazil football star Neymar.

Barcelona has confirmed it will appeal against sanctions imposed by Fifa after football’s global governing body found the Spanish Liga club guilty of breaching regulations surrounding the international transfers and registrations of players under the age of 18.

AC Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi is considering selling a stake of between 20 and 30 per cent in the Italian Serie A football club, according to the Reuters news agency.

Football's world governing body Fifa has issued Barcelona with a transfer ban covering two windows and a fine of CHF450,000 (€370,000/$509,000) after finding the Spanish Liga club and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) guilty of breaches relating to the international transfer and registration of players under the age of 18.

Leaders has announced that Bruce Buck, chairman of English Premier League football club Chelsea, will take part in the inaugural New York edition of the Leaders Sport Summit on May 21.