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.
By David Gold in Geneva
September 5 – Glasgow Celtic has won an award for community and social responsibility at the European Club Association (ECA) annual congress here, with Barcelona taking the award for the best club of 2011.
By David Gold
September 4 – The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has agreed deals to extend partnerships with Compass and Dolce & Gabbana in a boost to the national team.
By David Gold
September 2 – Celtic will take their place in the hardest group of the Europa League after their qualifying round opponents FC Sion were thrown out for flouting a FIFA ban on transfers.
By David Owen
September 1 – Europe’s top football clubs shelled out increased amounts on new players during the summer transfer window, as the sport shrugged off the effects of the continent’s sluggish economic growth.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 29 – UEFA is set to decide tomorrow whether to kick Swiss side Sion out of the Europa League and replace them with Celtic in a case that has served as a dangerous precedent for European football.
By Andrew Warshaw in Monaco
August 26 – UEFA President Michel Platini today launched his most hard-hitting rebuke for months on the state of European football, saying “red lights were flashing” throughout the continent and that he feared for the game’s very future.
By Andrew Warshaw in Monaco
August 26 – Scottish club football’s European season could be saved from total humiliation with Celtic being parachuted back into the Europa League, UEFA announced today.
By Andrew Warshaw in Monaco
August 26 – Barcelona picked up yet another piece of silverware to add to their bulging trophy cabinet tonight as they ultimately cruised past nine-man Porto 2-0 to lift the UEFA Super Cup, the annual early-season showpiece between the Champions League and Europa League winners.
By David Gold
August 24 – Russian football’s growing strength and financial muscle has been flexed this week as Cameroon forward Samuel Eto’o became the world’s best paid player as he signed for big spending Anzhi Makhachkala.
By David Gold
August 17 – The opening match of this season’s FA Cup, between Ascot United of the Hellenic League and Combined Counties League outfit Wembley FC, is to be the first football match ever broadcast live on social networking site Facebook.
By David Gold
August 16 – An investigation into Rupert Murdoch’s Sky Italia by Italy’s competition authority for its acquisition of the rights to air the 2010 and 2014 World Cups has been extended to include the News Corp subsidiary’s UEFA Champions League rights.
By David Gold
August 15 – The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has confirmed that their league season, which had been postponed due to a match-fixing probe, will begin on September 9, and that no sanctions would be forthcoming for the teams involved.
By David Gold
August 15 – FIFA has warned Switzerland to enforce its ruling that FC Sion are unable to field six new signings after the Swiss League allowed the club to select three players barred from competition by world football’s governing body last weekend.