September 10 – Valencia have begun disciplinary proceedings against their forward Rafa Mir after the 27-year-old was arrested last week by the Spanish Guardia Civil police for alleged sexual assault.
August 28 – Hamburg SV’s Croatia Under-21 international Mario Vušković has had his doping ban doubled to four years in a ruling by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
August 27 – Charges have been dropped against Colombian FA chief and FIFA Council member Ramón Jesurún more than a month after he and his son were arrested in the chaos that unfolded at the Copa America final in Miami.
August 19 – China has jailed yet another leading official for bribery as the crackdown into football corruption shows no sign of abating.
August 6 – The refereeing payment scandal which for months engulfed Barcelona but which has seemingly drifted under the radar has burst back into the spotlight.
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.