May 10 – FIFA has ordered the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) to pay former coach Gernot Rohr just under $380,000 in compensation after the governing body dismissed the German late last year.
May 10 – UEFA has opened ticket sales for Conference League final between AS Roma and Feyenoord exclusively via UEFA.com.
May 10 – Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Patrice Motsepe is reported to be in favour of a joint bid from Botswana and Namibia to co-host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations.
May 10 – Scottish football journalists have had to apologise after an awards event speech prompted a walkout because of alleged sexism.
May 9 – Serie A has further embraced new sports video technology via a three-year deal with WSC Sports that will create real-time highlights.
May 9 – Meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, the first-time ever the AFC Executive Committee has met in a Central Asian nation, AFC president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, unveiled two new development programmes, praised his member nations for their post-covid return to football, and offered support to FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s bid for a further four year term in office.
May 9 – This week could promise to become a landmark moment for European football with UEFA’s executive committee set to ratify changes to the Champions League format.
May 9 – Reigning world champions Japan will face the Netherlands, Ghana and USA at the U-20 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica later this year.
May 8 – Chelsea have confirmed that terms for the club’s sale have been agreed with the consortium led by LA Dodgers part-owner Todd Boehly, financed by Clearlake Capital, and with US investor Mark Walter and Swiss businessman Hansjoerg Wyss along for the ride.
May 9 – A year after relegation, Schalke 04 is back in the Bundesliga following a win against St Pauli on Saturday.
May 9 – Indian tire manufacturer BKT has renewed its global sponsorship with LaLiga for a new three-year term which will run until the end of the 2024/2025 season.
May 9 – The day after it was confirmed that their club had been bought by new investors who would maintain their commitment to the women’s team, Chelsea won their third consecutive Super League title with the last game of the season.
May 9 – The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in the US has sold the title sponsorship of its NWSL Challenge Cup in a three-year deal to HR management specialists UKG.
May 9 – Germany’s DFL (operator of the Bundesliga) and Mexico’s Liga MX have signed a Memorandum of Understanding that will cover sharing expertise across performance, business and marketing areas.
May 6 – France’s Ligue 1 has reported a mammoth deficit of €645 million for the 2020-2021 financial year because of the Covid-19 pandemic and the collapse of the transfer market.