By Andrew Warshaw
September 17 – The court injunction won by FC Sion against UEFA should invalidate Atletico Madrid’s 2-0 win over Celtic, as well Udinese’s 2-1 victory over Rennes, in Thursday night’s opening Europa League group games, according to the Swiss club.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 15 – FC Sion are demanding millions of Euros in compensation from UEFA over the refusal by European football’s governing body to allow them back into the Europa League.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 14 – Eastern European clubs are far behind their western counterparts when it comes to the way they treat footballers and the underhand methods that go into drawing up contracts, according to the head of the world players’ union FIFPro.
By David Gold
September 14 – The number of players being fielded by the clubs they trained with in Europe has increased for the second year in a row, according to the Annual Review of the European Football Players’ Labour Market.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 14 – The bitter legal dispute between FC Sion and UEFA has taken another remarkable twist with the Swiss club insisting UEFA President Michel Platini should be punished under Swiss law for refusing to reinstate them in the Europa League.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 13 – FC Sion’s attempt to be reinstated in this season’s Europa League was thrown out by UEFA today as the legal battle between the sporting authorities and the Swiss civil courts intensified.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 13 – The Football Association today defended their anti-doping rules after a television exposé claimed several previously unnamed players had failed out-of-competition tests for recreational drugs.
By Andrew Warshaw
September 8 – Swiss club Sion’s appeal against being thrown out of this season’s Europa League will be heard next Tuesday (September 13), just 48 hours before the group stages of the competition are due to get under way.
By David Gold
September 8 – A dozen La Liga sides have decided to press ahead with plans to reform Spanish televison rights after a meeting at Sevilla’s Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan Stadium today.
By David Gold at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva
September 7 – AC Milan director Umberto Gandini says that the upcoming season is crucial as Italian football looks to avoid a renewal of the Serie A players’ strike which was called off earlier this week.
By David Gold at the President Wilson Hotel in Geneva
September 6 – Continually buying new players is not “rational”, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge warned today as the European Clubs Association (ECA) endorsed UEFA’s financial fair play rules after its annual Congress here.
By Tom Degun
September 6 – The most likely teams to be crowned as the national champions in Europe’s top five leagues in 2012 will be Chelsea, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Bayern Munich and Paris St-Germain, according to new data.
By David Gold in Geneva
September 6 – FC Sion have confirmed that they have appealed to UEFA against their expulsion from the Europa League, with both players and the club itself set to launch legal proceedings against football’s European governing body at Swiss civil court level.
By David Gold
September 6 – The players’ strike, which has held up the start to the new Serie A season, has been ended temporarily after the Italian Players’ Union and Lega Serie A reached an agreement that will see the season start this Friday (September 9) when AC Milan host Lazio.
By David Gold in Geneva
September 6 – The European Club Association (ECA) is today set to propose changes to the congested international football calendar as they seek to reduce the burden on players, at the conclusion of their annual congress here.