May 30 – Ruud Gullit is not one to draw lazy comparisons. Ask the AC Milan legend whether traditional football has something to learn from the booming esports industry and his answer is refreshingly honest.
May 30 – U.S. ownership of English Premier League clubs has become commonplace, and now women’s football is emerging as the next frontier. Ballard Capital, led by Angie and Chris Long (pictured) – owners of the Kansas City Current in the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) – has acquired Danish club HB Køge Women.
May 30 – The Lionesses are just weeks away from defending their UEFA Women’s European Championship crown, and this time they’ll be doing so with significantly more financial incentive after the Football Association announced record bonus payments that dwarf previous tournaments.
May 30 – Liverpool’s current stars and incoming talents dominate the latest player performance rankings published by the CIES Football Observatory, underlining the club’s strong footing heading into the next phase of its evolution.
May 30 – US engine oil Valvoline has announced its sponsorship of the 2026 World Cup that will be co-hosted in its core domestic markets of Canada, Mexico and the United States next year.
May 30 – Coming just in time for kick-off, FIFA has announced a sponsorship with tech giants Lenovo and its Motorola Mobility smartphone brand for the Club World Cup.
May 30 – Just when Manchester United’s dismal campaign seemed unable to sink any lower, they suffered a humiliating defeat to a Southeast Asian XI in Kuala Lumpur – and watched their brightest talent make headlines for all the wrong reasons.
May 30 – Major League Soccer (MLS) has signed a multi-year agreement with Corpay, a global financial technology firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange, to serve as the league’s Official Foreign Exchange (FX) Provider.
May 30: The Saudi Pro League (SPL) has agreed a “a long-term strategic partnership” with Saudi Arabian Mining Company (Maaden) who will be named the Official Platinum Partner of the SPL until July 2030.
May 30 – Global betting behemoth bet365 has secured all betting rights to Allianz Parque – the gleaming 43,000-capacity fortress that houses Brazilian giants Palmeiras in Sao Paulo and stands as one of South America’s most prestigious sporting cathedrals.
May 29 – FIFA’s events have become like buses. You wait for four years for one and then suddenly you get four of them at the same time. With the Club World Cup set to kick off next month and the draws for the U17 World Cup and Arab Cup in Qatar held last week, today FIFA focus is on the draw for U20 World Cup Chile 2025.
May 29 – Germany’s DFL has extended the contracts of two of its key commercial executives, Peer Naubert and Bastian Zuber, until at least 2028.
May 28 – Mauro Silva, aWorld Cup winner with Brazil’s men team in 1994, and Tamires who has more than 100 caps for the Brazilian women’s national team, have joined the SIGA Champions programme.
May 28 – On the tenth anniversary of FIFAGate, FairSquare, NGOs, academics, writers, whistleblowers and football supporters’ groups have argued that “FIFA is arguably more poorly governed today than a decade ago”.
FIFA has responded that it is “a completely new organisation”, and that 2015 marked the beginning of a process of “fundamental change”.
May 28 – The Iranian FA has moved its June 9 World Cup qualifying fixture against North Korea from Mashad, the country’s second largest city, to the Azadi Stadium in Tehran.