January 25 - Just seven months after hosting four World Cup matches, Cuiaba's Arena Pantanal stadium, is being closed for "emergency repairs".

January 25 – Leeds United owner Massimo Cellino has officially stepped down from his club duties, being replaced by Andrew Umbers until at least April 10 when Cellino's ban will have been served.

By Andrew Warshaw
January 23 - As the tension builds towards next week's deadline for official nominations to run for FIFA president, one of the prospective candidates has given the strongest indication yet that he will pull out and instead support Prince Ali bin al-Hussein in the Jordanian's bid to unseat Sepp Blatter.

By Mark Baber
January 23 - The Deloitte Money League for 2013/14  shows the richest clubs are getting richer – with the top 20 clubs seeing an increase in combined revenue of €6.2 billion in 2013/14, an increase of 14% on the previous year, but also indicates the advantages of a more equal distribution of wealth within a league. All 20 Premier League teams made the top 40 globally.

January 23 - FIFA second-tier sponsors Castrol, Continental and Johnson & Johnson have declined to renew sponsorship contracts for the 2018 World Cup, each was on a one World Cup cycle deal.

By Mark Baber
January 23 - Billionaire fan of Hambrg SV, Klaus-Michael Kühne, has become an official investor in the Bundesliga club, converting his latest loan of €18.75 million ($21.8million) into a 7.5% stake and buying the naming rights for the club's stadium which will revert to its old name of the 'Volksparkstadion' (People's Park Stadium) in July 2015.

January 23 - A report titled The Odds of Match Fixing – Facts & figures on the integrity risks of certain sports bets by Professor Dr Ben Van Rompuy of the ASSER International Sports Law Centre draws a number of conclusions that blow away some of the myths around conventionally held thinking on match-fixing.

By Paul Nicholson
January 23 – The pressure on Scottish club Rangers' board to call an extraordinary general meeting is mounting, despite the board's resistance to convene shareholders for a vote that would determine whether they maintained their positions or not.

By Andrew Warshaw
January 23 - The FIFA official overseeing the presidential election process says the names of the candidates for the May 29 ballot may not necessarily be announced until several days after next Thursday's deadline for nominations.

By Samindra Kunti
January 23 - The Brazilian FA, the CBF, has presented new regulations for 2015 with the threefold aim to regulate and bring discipline to Brazil's domestic football finances and create more transparency.

By Jaroslaw Adamowski
January 23 – Poland's Stomil Olsztyn is close to bringing on board a new investor with the aim of putting club's finances into order and prevent the club going bankrupt.

January 23 – Scottish giants Rangers have organised a tribute match for their former Dutch international Fernando Ricksen at Ibrox this Sunday. Ricksen was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease in 2013. He played for the club for six years between 2000 and 2006 – a golden time for the club that is currently embroiled in the bitterest of boardroom struggles for control.