November 9 – Coors Light will be the official beer of the Leagues Cup – the new MLS vs LigaMx club competition kicking off in 2023 – in what is described as a multi-year partner agreement.
November 8 – Former champions Tigres UANL from LigaMX will meet Orlando City from the MLS in what looks to be the pick of the ties from the Round of 16 draw for Concacaf Champions League (SCCL).
November 7 – Los Angeles FC beat Philadelphia Union to win the MLS Cup but only after a last-minute equaliser in extra time from Gareth Bale tied the scores at 3-3.
November 3 – The Canadian Premier League formally announced Vancouver FC as the league’s ninth club, ahead of its inaugural season in 2023.
November 2 – Another major final is going to Los Angeles and will played this weekend at the Banc of California Stadium.
October 28 – The SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles will host the final of the 2023 Concacaf Gold Cup, while the confederation has confirmed for the second time there will be a 12-team centralised preliminary round in the US the week before the Group stages start.
October 24 – Concacaf and The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding which will see the two confederations collaborate on developing the game in both regions.
October 5 – Just as the United States women’s team is preparing for its prestige international on Friday against England at Wembley, its players are taking in the findings of a damning report which found that emotional abuse and sexual misconduct had become systemic throughout the US National Women’s Soccer League.
September 23 – The fledgling US second tier women’s pro-league – the Women’s Independent Soccer League (WISL) – has appointed Lynn Berling-Manuel as managing director.
September 15 – The Caribbean Football Union (CFU) and US pro-leagues operator United Soccer League (USL) have unveiled a new long-term partnership aimed at creating increased professional playing opportunities in the USL’s leagues.
September 15 – New York City FC ran out 2-0 winners over Mexico’s Atlas in the Campeones Cup last night at Yankee Stadium in New York City.
September 12 – MLS expansion team St. Louis City SC who begin league play in 2023, will be testing their soon-to-be-opened new stadium next week.
By Paul Nicholson
September 7 – Football’s Most Wanted, Jack Warner (pictured), has prevented more than 100 Trinidad and Tobago football creditors being paid after he challenged the settlement agreement made with the trustee in the Trinidad and Tobago courts earlier this week.
September 8 – The American women’s and men’s national teams have signed their collective bargaining agreements (CBA) with governing body U.S. Soccer, bringing to an end a lengthy battle for equal pay that included a gender discrimination lawsuit that ended in a $24 million settlement.
August 17 –Salvadoran football is in crisis with FIFA having appointed a normalisation committee to run the administration of the Salvadoran Football Association (FESFUT) after government intervention removed president Hugo Carillio and the entire FESFUT executive committee.