May 3 – Concacaf has released details of the 2023/24 Concacaf Nations League (CNL) draw which will frame the first season of the revamped competition and qualification for the major men’s national team competitions to be played in the US in 2024 and 2025. The draw will be held May 16 in Miami.
May 3 – Bulgarian champion club Ludogorets Razgrad has sent an open letter to the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU), the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Youth and Sports calling for action over the fan disturbances at their derby match against CSKA at the Bulgarian Army Stadium on Sunday.
May 3 – Burnley, who have bounced back to the Premier League after a season in the Championship, have received new minority investment from the US from retired NFL star JJ Watt and his wife and NWSL player Kealia Watt.
May 3 – Liverpool are opening up in China with a new official retail partnership with All Star Partners (ASP).
May 2 – FIFA and its president Gianni Infantino are threatening a broadcast blackout of the Women’s World Cup in Europe’s ‘Big 5’ TV markets over “disappointing” broadcast offers.
May 2 – UEFA have taken a step further in their proposed rethink of their financial sustainability rules with the creation of a Working Group that will look at ‘squad cost control’ (essentially the issue of wage caps) as well as how transfer fees are accounted for by clubs.
May 1 – Japan’s Urawa Red Diamonds will go into the second leg of the AFC Champions League final with a crucial away goal advantage after a 1-1 draw to reigning champions Al Hilal in Saudi Arabia.
May 2 – Chile’s president Gabriel Boric has intervened after the local derby between Universidad de Chile and Universidad Catolica was abandoned on Sunday due to fan disorder.
May 2 – The race to buy Manchester United has taken another twist with British billionaire Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos Group reportedly having valued the club higher than Qatari banker Sheikh Jassim.
May 2 – Crowd violence and the death of a supporter marred the quarter-finals of the African Champions League this weekend.
May 2 – Manchester City’s Norwegian striker Erling Haaland hit a new landmark at the weekend when he became the first player in England’s top flight for almost a century to score a staggering 50 goals in all competitions in the same season.
May 2 – Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp is facing his second touchline ban of the season if, as expected, he is charged for his comments about referee Paul Tierney after Sunday’s injury-time 4-3 win over Tottenham.
May 2 – Bulgaria’s CSKA Sofia has unveiled its plans for the reconstruction of the Bulgarian Army stadium.
May 2 – Bayern Munich will pay tow pre-season fixtures in Japan as part of the second edition of the ‘SKY PerfecTV! Bundesliga Japan Tour’.
May 2 – Wolfsburg’s Pauline Bremer scored an extra-time winner to send her club to the final of the Women’s Champions League and break Arsenal’s hearts in front of an English record crowd for a women’s club game of 60,063. Wolfsburg now face Barcelona in the final.