July 27 – The Swiss Football league (SFL) has chosen Stats Perform as its official data partner in a three-season deal that will run into 2026 and boost the league’s real time statistics and visual data content for fans.
July 26 – The Football Forum (TFF) – an association of national football agent bodies – has said that the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) ruling against the Professional Football Agents Association’s (PROFAA) challenge of FIFA’s new Football Agents Regulations (FAR), does not apply to their members.
July 26 – FIFA has issued an invitation to tender for centralised media rights to Africa’s 2026 World Cup qualifying matches ahead of the largest CAF World Cup qualifying in history.
By Samindra Kunti in Auckland
July 26 – Indigenous Football Australia (IFA) have written to FIFA and Football Australia, slamming their “empty symbolism” of Indigenous imagery at the Women’s World Cup. FIFA, however, say work is being done on space for indigenous football.
July 26 – Osasuna have overturned their European ban, issued as a result of decade-old match-fixing scandal.
July 26 – The Croatian FA has been fined €150,000 for offensive chants and disorder by fans at the Nations League Finals last month.
July 24 – North Macedonia’s Vardar Skopje has been granted a license to play in the country’s top tier after the clubs used funds raised from the sale of membership cards to settle debt built up by the club’s former owner Slobodan Krstevski.
July 25 – FIFA have won the latest ruling in an international fight by player agents to block rules that would regulate their industry and cap their fees.
July 25 – The Belgian national lottery – Nationale Loterij – has renewed its club sponsorship of RSC Anderlecht including the naming rights to the stadium.
July 25 – Premier League chief executive Richard Masters (pictured) has responded to Saudi Arabia’s growing influence in the game by saying he “wouldn’t be too concerned at the moment” about the situation.
July 25 – The ‘Soccer Champions Tour’, which sees Barcelona, Real Madrid, Arsenal, Manchester United, Juventus and AC Milan play a series of pre-season fixtures from July 22 to August 2 starting on the west coast of the US, got off to a disastrous start with the first match being cancelled.
July 25 – The Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) has issued a tender for the sale of the TV rights to the First League, Second League, the Super Cup and the Albanian Cup tournament.
July 25 – Polish bookmaker STS has agreed new sponsorships with Polish clubs Korona Kielce and GKS Katowice.
July 24 – Could the exodus of elite players to Saudi Arabia be about to take its most sensational step yet?
July 24 – Former England forward Trevor Francis, who famously became Britain’s first £1 million player when he moved to Nottingham Forest from Birmingham in 1979, has died aged 69 of a heart attack in Spain where he regularly spent half the year.