By Andrew Warshaw
July 14 – UEFA President Michel Platini’s disdain for the advent of goal-line technology has been made abundantly clear with the announcement that his preferred “human” system of two additional assistants will continue in the Champions League and Europa League next season.
By David Gold
July 10 – Russian state-owned gas company Gazprom will be a UEFA Champions League sponsor for the next three years.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 10 – UEFA’s refusal to change the rules to allow a raft of suspended players to take part in the Champions League final was entirely correct according to the competition’s leading administrator.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 3 – UEFA has refused to change its rules to allow a raft of suspended players to take part in the Bayern Munich-Chelsea Champions League final later this month.
By David Gold
April 27 – The UEFA Champions Festival, the now traditional curtain-raiser to the Champions League final, is to take place in Munich from May 16 to 19, with the Olympiapark hosting the free event.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 24 – Disgraced Turkish champions Fenerbahçe is taking UEFA to sport’s highest court seeking €45 million (£37 million/$59 million) in compensation after being thrown out of this season’s Champions League for its role in the country’s ongoing match fixing scandal.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 10 – The much maligned Europa League could be scrapped in favour of doubling the size of the Champions League according to a German report.
By David Gold
April 2 – All Turkish teams, including those not involved in match rigging, could be banned from European competition rather than face relegation, after the suggestion from Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was echoed by Yıldırım Demirören, the new Turkish Football Federation (TFF) chairman.
By David Gold
March 28 – UEFA has placed 50,000 tickets on sale for the Women’s Champions League final, to be held at the Olympiastadion in Munich on May 17.
By Andrew Warshaw
March 5 – UEFA are slashing ticket prices for this season’s Champions League final in Munich following a barrage of criticism about the expense of watching last year’s showpiece event for grassroots fans.
By David Owen
February 13 – MasterCard has extended its sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League, the premier competition for European football clubs, until 2015.
By David Gold
January 31 – UEFA has announced that this season’s Women’s Champions League final will be held in Munich’s Olympiastadion on May 17, two days before the men’s showpiece.
By David Gold
December 29 – Viktoria Plzeň’s Davida Bystroně tested positive for banned drugs after a Champions League game last month, the Czech champions have revealed.
By Duncan Mackay at the Ritz Carlton in Tokyo
December 16 – There is no reason to investigate Dinamo Zagreb’s controversial 7-1 defeat against Lyon in the Champions League despite 15 players and referees in Croatia being found guilty for their role in match-fixing, UEFA President Michel Platini claimed here today.
By Declan Warrington
December 15 – UEFA and Adidas have agreed a six-year extension to their partnership for the UEFA Champions League and Europa League, as well as an agreement for the UEFA Super Cup.