October 21 – La Liga’s Atlético de Madrid have confirmed that every season ticket seat at the Riyadh Air Metropolitano has been sold for the 2025/26 campaign. Even the VIP section, usually the last and most expensive offering, has been snapped up.
October 21 – Paramount’s new CEO, David Ellison, has entered the corporation with a sharpened scalpel, and is preparing to axe between 2,000 and 3,000 employees in the United States as part of a sweeping $2 billion cost-cutting plan. Hollywood Bible Variety described the move as “a broad across-the-board culling,” leading many to fear for the future of football on the CBS Sports platform.
October 21 – Former midfield hard man Robbie Savage made a career out of winding people up as a player, but has now found himself on the other side of the equation as a manager.
October 21 – Barcelona President Joan Laporta claims the club came close to being banned from the UEFA Champions League due to repeated breaches of Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations, before being fined €15 million instead.
October 21 – Major League Soccer (MLS) have made every post-season play-off match available free to view for all Apple TV viewers, meaning no more MLS Season Pass is required.
October 16 – WSL Football has raised the curtain on a “wide-ranging” collaboration with Apple, aimed at transforming the way the women’s game is played, coached, and officiated at the top level.
October 16 – Real Madrid and France striker Kylian Mbappé has been named the most effective finisher in Europe’s top five leagues, according to new performance data published by the CIES Football Observatory in collaboration with analytics firm Impect.
October 16 – The Manchester United Foundation has reported a record £61.2 million in ‘social and economic value’ generated during the 2024/25 season, reflecting the club charity’s expanding reach and influence across Greater Manchester and beyond.
October 16 – The RSC Anderlecht board of directors has approved the appointment of Michael Verschueren as the club’s new Chairman, part of the restructuring project undertaken by majority shareholder Marc Coucke.
October 16 – Inter Milan have reported record revenues of €567 million and a net profit of €35.4 million for the 2024/25 financial year — the club’s first profit in 15 years — marking another major step in their financial recovery and commercial growth.
October 16 – Relevent Football Partners (RFP) are wasting no time in flexing their newfound power in European football, opening up the sales process for UEFA’s new 2024–2027 men’s club competition sponsorship cycle, starting with one of the sport’s most lucrative categories – beer.
October 16 – Tottenham Hotspur continue to overhaul their executive team with the latest addition being the return of Fabio Paratici as joint-sporting director alongside Johan Lange.
October 16 – FIFA has signalled that it would allow U.S. President Donald Trump to remove cities from the list of World Cup hosts, following his threat to drop Boston earlier this week.
October 16 – The elite modern footballer is running on fumes. Between club, country, and increasingly commercial commitments, the calendar is a relentless treadmill with barely time to take a tea-break.
Europe’s elite clubs, including several from the Premier League, know that their prized assets can no longer keep producing performances without significant help from the administrators of the game.
October 16 – The Croatian Football Federation (HNS) has extended its business cooperation agreement with insurance company Croatia osiguranje on a multi-year contract as a Partner of the Federation and the Croatian national team.