By Mark Baber
September 24 – Algeria’s Professional Football League has banned JS Kabylie from playing at home for the 2014-2015 season, following the tragic death of their striker, Cameroonian Albert Ebosse, who was hit by missile thrown by one of the club’s own supporters on August 23.
By Mark Baber
September 24 – U.S. Soccer is standing by its decision to allow women’s national team goalkeeper Hope Solo to continue to play in the period up to her November 4 trial on domestic violence charges. Nike have also said they will stick by the player.
September 24 – Yet another incident of racist abuse has hit Russian football which shows little sign of cutting out discrimination despite plenty of pledges to the contrary.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 24 – Tighter controls over suspected cases of concussion are likely to be approved by FIFA under new proposals being presented to this week’s executive committee meeting in Zurich.
24 September- German icon Franz Beckenbauer has added his name to the list of key speakers at next month’s Securing Sport conference in London, organised by the Qatar-based International Centre for Sport Security.
By Alexander Krassimirov
September 24 – The president of the Bulgarian Football Union Borislav Mihaylov (pictured) expressed disappointment after the failure of Sofia’s bid to host matches from Euro 2020. blaming UEFA’s rejection on the lack of support from Bulgarian institutions.
By Alexander Krassimirov
September 24 – Kiril Domuschiev (pictured), the owner of Bulgarian champions Ludogorets who are have qualified for the Champions League for the first time in their history, said he expects club to achieve a small financial surplus at the end of the 2014.
September 24 – In one of the game’s more unusual takeovers, a Singapore businessman who not so long ago tried to buy Liverpool has agreed to enter into partnership with five former Manchester United players and taken a 50% share in a club playing in the eighth tier of English football.
By Mark Baber
September 23 – Former Gambian sports minister Modou Lamin Kabba Bajo has won elections for president of the Gambia Football Federation (GFF) opening the way for a lifting of suspension of the country from international football.
September 23 – Leading Russian club CSKA Moscow are poised to introduce banning orders and take legal action to stop continued violence by their fans in European games “pushing us over the edge,” according to general director Roman Babayev.
By Mark Baber
September 22 – The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) met on Saturday to set the date for new elections, in line with FIFA’s directives, but apparently in contravention of a court order obtained by the Chris Giwa faction, who still regard their man as the legitimately elected President.
September 22 – UEFA has confirmed that financial fair play fines imposed on clubs will be redistributed among teams who managed to balance their books.
September 22 – Any hopes rivals to Sepp Blatter might have in swaying the African vote away from the present incumbent at next year’s Fifa presidential election look like finding it tough going.
By Ben Nicholson
September 22 – The upcoming MLS expansion team NYC FC has targeted a new site for its soccer-specific stadium in the parking lot south of the Aqueduct Racetrack in Queens. Manchester City owned NYC FC will play its inaugural season, 2015, inside The Yankee Stadium – a baseball arena owned by the New York Yankees, who also own a fraction of NYC FC.
September 22 – The MLS has unveiled a new logo ahead of its twentieth season, to go along with its rebranding and rejuvenated aspirations to become a leading league in world soccer. Discarding the old boot and ball in black and white, the league has gone for the classic crest template normally seen as club logos.