September 24 – Talk of Chelsea and Ukraine winger Mykhailo Mudryk switching careers to compete as a sprinter at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics has been firmly denied by both his legal team and Ukraine’s athletics authorities.
September 24 – AC Milan and FC Internazionale Milano have appointed architectural firms Foster + Partners and MANICA, led respectively by Lord Norman Foster and David Manica, to design the new Milan Stadium. But only if the Milan City Council agrees to sell the Great Urban Function San Siro site.
September 24 – The false accounting case that saw Juventus former chairman Andrea Agnelli and three other executives come under the microscope has ended after a Rome judge accepted a plea bargain request.
September 22 – Forty-six players and coaches from the first (efbet League) and second (Mr Bit Second League) divisions of Bulgarian football have been found guilty of betting on matches within those leagues during the 2024/25 season. This is the largest number of players being sanctioned for betting on domestic league matches in Bulgarian football history.
September 22 – Serie A side AS Roma have extended their agreement with Sport e Salute to use the Stadio Olimpico until the end of the 2027/28 season, giving the club some much-needed stability while work advances on its long-awaited new home in the Pietralata district.
September 22 – Ligue 1 blockbuster Olympique Marseille vs Paris Saint-Germain on Sunday was hit by bad weather and rescheduled for Monday (today), but clashing with tonight’s Ballon d’Or ceremony.
September 19 – Glenn Micallef, the European Commissioner for Intergenerational Fairness, Youth, Culture and Sport, has given his backing to The European Leagues Association and the key role of leagues as stakeholders in the European game and ensuring its sustainability.
European Leagues were meeting in Brussels for their first in-person meeting of the new season.
September 19 – Liverpool’s dramatic stoppage-time victory over Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Champions League Group stage on Wednesday night was marred by an altercation between members of the Atletico staff and Reds supporters.
September 18 – José Mourinho is back in Lisbon, 25 years after his first managerial steps at Benfica, which lasted all of nine matches. His latest move feels as much about legacy and completing the circle as it does about results.
September 17 – UEFA and Groupe Amaury, co-organisers of the Ballon d’Or since last year, have announced Qatar Airways as the first-ever presenting partner of the 69th Ballon d’Or ceremony, with the winner of football’s most prestigious individual accolade set to be unveiled on September 22 in Paris.
September 17 – It feels like a cliché, but Italian football has once again found itself dragged into the world of organised crime. On Tuesday, Serie C side Crotone was placed under judicial administration for a year after prosecutors uncovered what they described as “sufficient evidence” of mafia infiltration.
September 15 – UEFA’s European Club Talent and Competition Landscape report, released this morning, has underlined two of the defining features of modern European football: the growing effort to protect players from overload and the relentless rise in transfer spending.
Across the continent’s top 20 leagues, clubs used more players than ever before in 2024/25 – a decision UEFA say is a conscious rebuttal of the increasing player workload.
September 15 – Real Madrid may be sitting pretty at the top of La Liga with a perfect record, but the Spanish giants have again turned the spotlight away from their football and on to the referees, preparing a dossier of supposed injustices to send to FIFA.
September 15 – Claire Bloomfield, the head of women’s football at the European Club Association (ECA), has announced her departure from the organisation.
September 14 – Vodafone is buying into men’s and women’s football in Europe with a new partnership covering both the men’s Champions League and UEFA’s Women’s Football.
The partnership with the Champions League will cover the next two seasons.