August 2 – Facing the threat of legal action, FIFA is holding out an olive branch to European leagues and players in order to end a three-month deadlock over the international match calendar.
August 2 – Jill Ellis, former U.S. women’s national team coach turned football administrator with NWSL club San Diego Wave, has responded to allegations of having created a hostile workplace with a defamation lawsuit filed against the former employee who alleged she was an abusive boss.
August 1 – A group of Europe’s top broadcasters and leagues are demanding more action from social media platform X, formerly Twitter, against the distribution of illegal content.
July 31 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has turned down Canada’s appeal against the six-point deduction for their women’s team in the wake of the drone scandal.
July 24 – Israel defender Roy Revivo will have his appeal against a two-game ban heard just hours before his team’s opening game against Mali at the Paris Olympics.
July 24 – The United Nations has determined that the detention of Abdullah Ibhais (pictured), a former employee of the Qatar 2022 Supreme Committee for Legacy and Delivery, is ‘arbitrary’ and has called for his immediate release.
July 23 – Open warfare has broken out between FIFA and the European leagues and player unions after the latter announced they had teamed up to carry out their threat of legal action over the protracted international match calendar, in particular the staging of 2025 Club World Cup.
July 22 – The first lawsuits have been filed by fans against Conmbel and the operators of Hard Rock Stadium in the wake of the chaos surrounding the Copa América final a week ago.
July 18 – Italian prosecutors have requested that former Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, one of the most powerful figures in European football in his heyday, and other former executives of the club stand trial over allegations of false accounting during their tenure.
July 18 – Real Madrid say a Spanish court has given a suspended eight-month prison sentence to a person who racially abused Vinícius Júnior and Antonio Rudiger in the comments section of a popular Spanish sports news website.
July 17 – Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) chairman Pedro Rocha has been suspended for two years by the Spanish Sports Administrative Tribunal (TAD) for abuse of authority.
July 8 – Concluding an investigation into accusations of match-fixing by John Textor, Brazil’s Superior Court of Sports Justice for Football (STJD) has recommended a six-year suspension and R2 million ($550.000) fine for the American, describing his evidence is “worthless”.
June 14 – England’s Professional Footballers’ Association has joined the Fifpro-led legal action against FIFA over the “overloaded and unworkable” football calendar.
June 14 – Milan prosecutors have asked for a case against former AC Milan owner Li Yonghong over alleged false accounting to be dropped after a lengthy investigation.
June 13 – In the deepening friction over the crowded international match calendar, world players union Fifpro has followed through on its threat and launched legal action against FIFA over the packed schedule and the 2025 Club World Cup.