By David Gold
October 14 – Moscow, St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg are vying to host the semi-finals of the FIFA World Cup in 2018, according to Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko.
By Andrew Warshaw at the ISEM conference in London
October 13 – The world’s first ever non-profit-making organisation specialising in sharing security ideas for sporting events wants to set up a full-scale training programme to minimise the risk of crime and corruption and maximise safety.
By Andrew Warshaw at the ISEM Conference in London
October 12 – More and more major sports events will go to emerging markets like Qatar rather than established nations in years to come.
By David Gold
October 11 – FIFA general secretary Jérôme Valcke has praised the enthusiasm and commitment of Russia after the first meeting of world football’s governing body and the 2018 World Cup Local Organising Committee (LOC).
By Andrew Warshaw
October 10 – Four days after Sport and Olympics Minister High Robertson described England’s doomed 2018 World Cup bid as the “biggest single failure” of his ministerial career, it was revealed today that the bid cost £6 million ($9.5 million/€7 million) more than everyone had been led to believe.
By David Gold
October 7 – MATCH Hospitality has continued its appointment of official 2014 FIFA World Cup Hospitality Programme sales agents, by giving Traffic Sports and Grupo Águia the rights to sell the packages in the host country Brazil.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 6 – Britain’s Sport and Olympics Minister Hugh Robertson today admitted that England’s inability to win the 2018 World Cup bid was “the biggest single failure” of his reign.
By Andrew Warshaw at the Leaders in Football Conference in London
October 5 – Ten months after winning the bid to stage the 2022 tournament, Qatar’s World Cup chief today admitted that the tiny Gulf state’s historic victory had been wounded by the constant negative publicity that accompanied the greatest upset in bidding history.
By David Gold
October 5 – The chief executive of England’s failed bid to host the 2018 World Cup, Andy Anson, has mocked FIFA’s response to a string of corruption allegations this year and says that he does not have faith in their ability to reform themselves.
By David Gold
October 4 – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has reassured FIFA that the country would stick to the commitments it made when it won the right to host the 2014 World Cup.
By David Gold
October 3 – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will meet with FIFA President Sepp Blatter today in Brussels as she looks to discuss a disagreement over a bill in the country’s Congress that could limit the revenues of world football’s governing body.
By David Gold
October 2 – The Qatar Football Association has confirmed that it will be hosting Iraq’s home qualifying games for the London 2012 Olympic Games and 2014 World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw
October 2 – Ricardo Teixeira, controversial president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has been released from hospital following two days of observation after complaining of abdominal pain.
By David Gold
September 30 – Seven years before games get underway at the first ever World Cup to be held in Russia, Myanmar have become the first country eliminated from the competition after violence erupted during a Brazil 2014 Asian qualifying clash with Oman in July.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 30 – Ricardo Teixeira, controversial president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF), has been admitted to hospital with abdominal pain.