July 27 – There are 218 players from South America currently playing in Europe’s Big Five leagues, 100 of them from Brazil and 70 of them playing in Spain’s LaLiga.
July 26 – Days after the Jamaican women’s team created Caribbean football history with back-to-back qualifications for the World Cup, the team and their luggage were left stranded in Houston, Texas, on their way home from Monterrey, Mexico.
July 26 – Qatar 2022 World Cup organisers have released detail of the Team Base Camps that will host the 32 teams in November/December this year.
July 25 – Juventus is returning to EA Sports’ FIFA games for the FIFA 23 edition, leaving rival Konami’s Pro Evolution Soccer video game where the club has been exclusive for the past three years.
July 26 – Pitch invaders at Premier League and English Football League matches will receive an automatic club ban under tough new sanctions to tackle fan behaviour.
July 26 – Alison Brittain will become the new chair of the Premier League in early 2023, becoming the first woman to lead the English top flight.
July 26 – Fulham have squeezed in a one-year shirt sponsorship deal with online betting firm W88. The agreement comes ahead of an expected pact within the Premier League clubs to phase out betting company shirt front advertising in a bid to win favour with UK regulators ahead of the review of gambling laws.
July 26 – In the Swiss equivalent of taking coal to Newcastle, Chinese watch brand Sea-gull has taken the shirt sponsorship of Swiss top tier Grasshopper Club Zurich.
July 25 – Fantasy football game Sorare has added Italy’s Serie A to deals it holds with Spain’s LaLiga, Germany’s Bundesliga and the MLS in the US, to release non-fungible token (NFT) player cards for the coming 2022-23 season.
July 25 – Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has rubbished the persistent perception that he is a puppet of FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, telling media it as an “old story”.
July 25 – The winners of the 2022 African Women’s Champions League will receive $400,000 in prize money, Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has announced.
July 25 – Fewer than half of the 92 English Premier League and Football League clubs have both their new home and away kits available to buy online ahead of the season because of supply chain issues, according to the BBC.
July 25 – Manchester City has renewed its partnership with cyber protection specialist Acronis.
July 25 – Concacaf is revamping its club competitions but before it does so it is playing another season of its Scotiabank Concacaf League (SCL), its second tier international club competition.
July 25 – National Independent Soccer Association (NISA), the US’s third tier professional league, has added an eleventh team for the 2023 season, Detroit-based Gold Star FC.