June 26 – Barcelona will finally set foot back into their iconic Camp Nou Stadium on August 10 for the Joan Gamper Trophy – a symbolic homecoming after two years of Montjuic exile.
June 26 – Luis Rubiales’ spectacular fall from grace hit another low on Wednesday as a Spanish court upheld his sexual assault conviction for forcibly kissing Jenni Hermoso at the 2023 Women’s World Cup final.
June 26 – Unsurprisingly, global footballing superstar Lionel Messi is the highest-paid player in the Major League Soccer (MLS) ranks – shocking stuff.
June 26 – The concrete skeleton of Miami Freedom Park Stadium is rising beside Miami International Airport, and Inter Miami officials are confident their 25,000-seat palace will be ready for spring 2026.
June 26 – A coalition of non-governmental organisations (NGOs), including Fairsquare, leading experts and scholars, has sent a letter to FIFA arguing that the Israel Football Association (IFA) has violated FIFA Statutes in relation to settlement clubs in the West Bank.
June 26 – The Croatian Football Federation (HNS) has secured broadcasting and marketing rights deals worth €59.2m for the competitions organised by the national association with Hrvatski Telekom and SuperSport respectively.
June 24 – Atletico Madrid have become the first high-profile casualty of FIFA’s new-look Club World Cup, failing to progress beyond the group stage after a bruising campaign that saw them edged out on goal difference by Paris Saint-Germain and Brazil’s Botafogo.
June 24 – Nottingham Forest’s long-delayed plans to redevelop the City Ground are set to go before local council planners on Thursday, potentially unlocking the next phase of a stadium expansion project first unveiled six years ago.
October 24 – NBA icon and serial sports investor Kevin Durant has taken a direct minority ownership stake in Paris Saint-Germain (PSG), deepening his involvement with the European Champions and signalling a wider strategic shift by the club’s Qatari ownership.
June 24 – Former Wales captain Gareth Bale has declared his intention to buy his hometown club, Cardiff City, in a move that would make the former Real Madrid and Tottenham Hotspur star the latest high-profile name to step into football ownership.
June 24 – Maintaining the South American flavour to the Club World Cup (CWC), Botafogo and Palmeiras confirmed their spots in the last sixteen of the tournament, with the pair set to meet in an all-Brazilian affair.
June 24 – Just when you think you’ve seen it all along comes Pepsi and Clint419’s revolutionary ‘Wear-A-Ball’ – a piece of kit so perfectly tailored to the grassroots game, that it makes you wonder why nobody thought of it sooner.
June 24 – The FIFA Club World Cup has become more than just a tournament – it’s evolved into a masterclass in global brand expansion that’s reshaping how football clubs think about connecting with supporters across continents.
June 24 – The sprawling 200-acre site in Trilith, Fayette County, Georgia represents more than just another training facility. It’s US Soccer’s bold statement of intent – a quarter-billion-dollar declaration that America is serious about competing at the highest level.
June 24 – Three of Bulgarian football’s institutions – the Bulgarian Football Union (BFS), Bulgarian Amateur Football League (AFL) and Beach Soccer Bulgaria (BSB) – have reached a cooperation agreement to promote the sport of Beach Soccer in the country.