Sky rockets EFL broadcast deal to record £935m
May 9 – EFL clubs have voted through a record new five-year TV coverage deal with Sky Sports worth £935 million.
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Urawa make it an AFC Champions League hattrick as Al Hilal left to rue missed chances
May 7 – Japan’s Urawa Red Diamonds have made history as the first team to win three AFC Champions League titles, with a 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal in the second leg of the final in Saitama on Sunday.
Charmaine Crooks wins Canada Soccer presidential vote with promise to unite national game
May 9 – Former Olympian Charmaine Crooks has been elected Canada Soccer president for one year with the promise she will unify the membership and bring the sport “back to its rightful place”.
Safe CEO Motlanthe quits, Lydia Monyepao steps up
May 9 – South African football has been rocked by the sudden resignation of Tebogo Motlanthe, the CEO of the South African Football Association (SAFA).
Standouts Shaw and Davies top 2022 Concacaf Players of the Year vote
May 7 – Jamaica’s Khadija Shaw and Canada’s Alphonso Davies have been voted 2022 Concacaf Women’s and Men’s Players of the Year.
City Football Group add Brazil’s top flight Bahia to stable of club ownership
May 5 – Brazil’s Bahia have become the latest club to join the City Football Group (CFG), the owners of English giants Manchester City.
Napoli celebrate first Serie A title win since 1990
May 5 – They reportedly cut their wage bill by 15%, were not predicted even to make the top four yet have now won their first Scudetto for 33 years with an insurmountable 16-point lead and five games still to play.
Safety fears force UEFA to block foreign referees from officiating in Greek play-offs
May 5 – UEFA has ruled out the use of foreign referees in Greek Super League playoff matches over fears for their safety after a series of incidents. The decision was announced by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, who sent a letter to Panagiotis Baltakos,president of Hellenic Football, expressing his concern.
Concacaf opens ‘game changing’ Coaching Convention application to MAs
May 5 – Concacaf has taken a big step forward with its initiative to raise the standards of coaching across the region and provide support and education for its coaches and federations with the opening up of the Concacaf Coaching Convention.
Messi gets $400m job offer from Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal, reports
May 5 – Having seemingly fallen out irreconcilably with Paris St Germain, Lionel Messi is reported to have received a formal offer to join Saudi Arabian club Al-Hilal next season.
Televisa breaks out gaming and football businesses into new listed entity
May 5 – Mexican entertainment giant Grupo Televisa is spinning off its betting and football interests into a new business entity that will be separated from its traditional broadcast business.
CAF opens broadcast tender for AFCON 2023 and Champions League
May 5 – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has opened an invitation to tender (ITT) for the broadcast rights to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
LaLiga renews Mediapro agency for 5 years but promises strategy rethink with PEAK j/v
May 5 – Mediapro has renewed its international broadcast representation deal with Spain’s LaLiga for a further five years.
Mourinho secretly mic’d up for encounter with worst referee ever
May 5 – Controversial Roma boss Jose Mourinho, rarely out of the news wherever he manages, wore a secret hidden microphone to “protect” himself against “the worst referee I have met in my life” during his side’s 1-1 draw with Monza earlier this week.
Teaching the teachers: AFC conference drives coach education theme to boost regional performance
May 4 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) completed its fourth Coach Education Conference on Thursday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, with more than 100 coach tutors and technical directors from across the region at the three-day event.