May 29 – The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has signed another sponsorship deal, this time brewing up a partnership agreement with one of Turkey’s largest coffee companies, Arabica Coffee House.
May 29 – Newcastle United Sporting Director Paul Mitchell will leave his role by mutual consent at the end of June, ending a turbulent 11-month tenure marked by tensions with manager Eddie Howe.
May 29 – Former AS Roma midfielder Nicolò Zaniolo, currently on loan at Fiorentina from Galatasaray, has been accused by his former club of assaulting two youth players and urinating in their facilities following a heated Primavera play–off match.
May 29 – Fox is putting women’s football front and centre on American television like never before, after the broadcaster announced that 19 matches from UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 will air on the main Fox broadcast channel. This isn‘t just news – it‘s a statement.
May 29 – FIFA’s events have become like buses. You wait for four years for one and then suddenly you get four of them at the same time. With the Club World Cup set to kick off next month and the draws for the U17 World Cup and Arab Cup in Qatar held last week, today FIFA focus is on the draw for U20 World Cup Chile 2025.
May 29 – Germany’s DFL has extended the contracts of two of its key commercial executives, Peer Naubert and Bastian Zuber, until at least 2028.
May 28 – On the tenth anniversary of FIFAGate, FairSquare, NGOs, academics, writers, whistleblowers and football supporters’ groups have argued that “FIFA is arguably more poorly governed today than a decade ago”.
FIFA has responded that it is “a completely new organisation”, and that 2015 marked the beginning of a process of “fundamental change”.
May 28 – Abdullah Ibhais has said that he will sue his former employer, the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy (SC), as well as FIFA after spending more than three years in a Qatari prison on trumped-up charges.
May 28 – Carlo Ancelotti, the first foreign manager to lead Brazil in modern history, has omitted Santos’ Neymar from his squad for the World Cup qualifiers against Paraguay and Ecuador in June.
May 28 – Kings League, the disruptive seven-a-side football concept launched by Gerard Piqué, is expanding into the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region through a new joint venture with Saudi-based SURJ Sports Investment.
May 28 – FIFA held the official draws for two of its 2025 tournaments to be held in Doha on Sunday, with the Arab Cup and the newly expanded U-17 World Cup set to return to Qatar later this year. The dual-event draw was hosted at the Raffles Hotel.
May 28 – Borussia Dortmund has announced a major sponsorship change, replacing long-time front-of-shirt partner Evonik with Vodafone Germany for the 2025/26 season.
May 28 – West Ham United and London Stadium have signed new multi-year deals with BrewDog, making the independent brewer the official beer partner of both the Premier League club and the stadium.
May 28 – Leeds United, promoted back into the Premier League for next season, are returning to big match and big money fixtures with their final pre-season game to be played August 9 against Serie A giants AC Milan in Dublin at the 51,700 capacity Aviva Stadium.
May 28 – Brazilian legend Neymar isn’t featuring in new coach Carlo Ancelotti’s World Cup plans at the moment, but he believes the 2026 tournament can revolutionise how football is experienced by fans.