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The organising committee of Russia and Ukraine’s proposed United Football League (UFL) have announced the formation of a new four-team tournament in what many will view as a means of testing the water for the controversial league project.

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Influential former Fifa official Jerome Champagne appears poised to announce a campaign to run for the presidency of world football’s governing body after calling a press conference, which will be held in London on Monday.

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Football’s world governing body Fifa is set to examine the possibility of introducing a Women’s Club World Cup.

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The main creditor of financially-embattled Spanish Liga team Valencia, Bankia, has received “multiple offers” for the top-tier football club after the expiry of yesterday’s deadline for bids.

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Leading Spanish Liga football club Barcelona has revealed that it paid €40m ($54.4m) to a company owned by the parents of Neymar as part of the transfer deal to acquire the Brazilian forward in June 2013.

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Fifa president Sepp Blatter has dropped the biggest hint yet that Qatar’s 2022 World Cup will be moved from a summer calendar slot by stating that world football’s governing body is seeking a “solution” to stage the tournament in the winter.

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Tottenham Hotspur and Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise Toronto FC have entered into a four-year advertising rights deal as part of Jermain Defoe’s transfer from the English Premier League club to the Canadian team.

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Lega Serie A president Maurizio Beretta has said the organisation is considering returning to an 18-team format in the top division of Italian football.

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The Spanish Football League (LFP) has announced that it will commemorate the 85th anniversary of professional football in Spain by launching a World Challenge friendly competition.

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Energy industry executive Dariusz Mioduski has taken over leading Polish football club Legia Warsaw after striking a deal with media conglomerate ITI Group.

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Michel Platini, the president of football’s European governing body Uefa, has hit out at Jérôme Valcke after the secretary general of the sport’s world governing body Fifa claimed yesterday that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar would not take place in the summer.

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Swedish football club Ostersund has agreed a major investment deal with the Libyan government which it claims is the biggest such agreement in the country’s history.

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Jérôme Valcke, the secretary general of football’s world governing body Fifa, has paved the way for a winter World Cup in 2022 by claiming today (Wednesday) that the tournament in Qatar will not take place in the summer.

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Richard Heaselgrave has left his position as chief commercial officer of the English Football League by mutual agreement.

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International infrastructure group Balfour Beatty has been awarded a £154m (€181.5m/$246.6m) contract to transform the London 2012 Olympic Stadium into the new home of English Premier League football club West Ham United.

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Fifa president Sepp Blatter has said Brazil’s struggles in delivering their World Cup venues on time are a consequence of beginning their preparations too late.

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A special 10,000-strong riot force is to be established for the 2014 Fifa World Cup in an effort to support police control during the tournament in Brazil.

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Qatar 2022 organising committee member Nasser Al Khater has stated construction of stadia for the country's hosting of the Fifa World Cup will accelerate this year.