October 29 – The businessman who organised the flight that crashed into the English channel and killed Argentine footballer Emiliano Sala on his way to sign for Cardiff City from Nantes in France has been found guilty of endangering the safety of an aircraft.
October 29 – The FIFA Museum has announced ‘211’, its first collaborative global exhibition on football heritage and culture which will invite all 211 FIFA Member Associations to share their own objects, stories and histories.
October 29 – Food and grocery delivery service Talabat has become the latest sponsor of the Qatar Football Association (QFA), the governing body announced.
October 28 – Conmebol’s 10 FIFA members have shot down once and for all any suggestion that they would favour a World Cup taking place every two years. The South Americans had already indicated their opposition to the idea but have now made that formal, saying they would not play in a biennial event.
October 28 – The temporary move to give teams the option of making five substitutions per game instead of the standard three has been given the green light by football’s lawmakers to become permanent.
October 28 – Italian prosecutors have opened a probe into dozens of transfers involving Serie A clubs.
October 28 – FIFA has broken with logo design tradition with the launch of a bold Women’s World Cup 2023 brand identity and tournament slogan.
October 28 – FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura has joined the Board of Directors of The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN), an international non-profit organisation that works towards a hunger-free future, the global governing body announced on Wednesday.
By Paul Nicholson
October 27 – Europe’s MEPs have called for more government oversight of sports and have made it clear in their opposition to any ‘breakaway leagues’ in a report adopted by the Committee on Culture and Education by 29 votes to 1 with one 1 abstention.
October 27 – Global provider of agriculture products UPL Ltd has become a regional supporter of the 2022 World Cup.
October 27 – Two key organisations in the running of European football have announced a joint initiative calling for greater influence over decisions affecting the future of the sport in the wake of the failed breakaway Super League project and the seemingly aborted plan to stage the World Cup every two years.
October 27 – Former England international defender Phil Neville, who now works in the United States, says social media pressure on football bosses has got “out of control” with nothing done about it.
October 26 – The governing body of Germany’s top two divisions says more than 90% of players, coaches and staff from the 36 clubs involved have received vaccines against Covid-19.
October 27 – Tributes are pouring following the death at 73 of Walter Smith, the former Scotland and Glasgow Rangers manager who won 21 trophies in an illustrious career.
October 26 – UEFA has issued a breakdown of the prize money for the Women’s EURO 2022 to be held in England next summer, as well as more detail of the club benefits programme which will see clubs compensated for releasing players.