July 6 – Zambian captain and star Barbra Banda has been ruled out of the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations over ‘gender eligibility’ issues, prompting controversy at the tournament.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 6 – It was the most open of secrets and now it’s official. Mauricio Pochettino’s reign at Paris Saint-Germain is over after Christophe Galtier was appointed the club’s seventh coach in 11 years.
July 6 – German side Mainz 05 have resisted calls from their own fans to cancel an upcoming friendly with Newcastle United in Austria because of the Premier League club’s Saudi ownership.
July 6 – The Sierra Leone Football Association (SLFA) is launching a match-fixing investigation into a pair of games that farcically featured no fewer 187 goals, finishing 95-0 and 91-1 respectively – two of the most one-sided margins in the history of the game.
July 5 – For 79 minutes Trinidad and Tobago bravely rode their luck against a dominant Canadian team. And then disaster struck as four goals in the final 11 minutes turned a tough evening into a 6-0 miserable one for the Caribbean debutants.
July 5 – Costa Rica opened their Concacaf W Championship challenge in style with a 3-0 win over Panama.
July 6 – With the final tickets on sale for the Qatar 2022 World Cup, FIFA and local organisers have hosted the 32 qualified teams in Doha for a ‘Team Workshop’.
July 6 – Australia have shelved plans to bid for hosting the Asian Cup 2023 but is looking at a joint bid for the 2030 World Cup.
July 7 – In a bid to wean its clubs off betting sponsors as the club’s main partners, the Premier League has asked clubs to voluntarily support phasing out shirt sponsorship over a three-year period.
July 5 – New Zealand has been chosen to host the first ever women’s World Cup Play-off tournament, taking place in the cities of Hamilton and Auckland between February 17-23 next year.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 5 – A year after the country’s men’s team suffered the heartache of losing in the Euros final, England’s Lionesses are aiming to go one better in the women’s tournament that gets under way on Wednesday.
July 5 – US star forward Alex Morgan wasted no time getting her 2022 Concacaf W Championship goalscoring account going in Monterrey, with two goals in the USA’s 3-0 win over Haiti.
July 5 – The African Super League will be launched in 2023 with a prize pot of $100 million, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has said.
July 5 – Hosts Mexico were stunned by an early Khadija Shaw goal, leaving them with a mountain to climb if they are qualify for the semi-finals of the CWC and an automatic 2023 World Cup spot.
July 5 – An English Premier League footballer has reportedly been arrested in London on suspicion of rape.