May 10 – San Diego is expected to be the next city to be awarded an MLS franchise with local media reporting that the announcement could be made this month with an expansion fee of $500 million.
May 10 – Brera Holdings has completed its acquisition of North Macedonia’s FC Akademija Pandev. The company acquired 90% of the club’s shares, with the value set at €600,000. The new owners said the club will be renamed Brera FC.
May 10 – Lionel Messi’s father has denied reports that his son – Paris Saint-Germain star and World Cup winner – will move to Saudi Arabia in a head-spinning money deal that some reports have pegged at $1 billion over two seasons.
May 10 – The second semi-final of the UEFA Champions League may be an all-Milan affair with AC against Inter, but AC Milan have opened up the derby to their fans worldwide inviting them to share their passion in the run-up to the first leg.
May 10 – In a tense and hard-fought fought match, Manchester City held Real Madrid 1-1 in the semi-finals of the Champions following superb strikes by Vinicius Junior and Kevin De Bruyne either side of halftime.
May 10 – Students of primary and secondary schools in Rotterdam should be given time off to attend the Feyenoord league title parade, Dutch political parties GroenLinks and D66 have argued.
May 9 – Having accepted the Independent Review Panel’s findings after the disastrous 2022 Champions League Final in Paris – and apologised, profusely – UEFA has now gone granular with an action plan of measures to enhance safeguards for supporters at UEFA finals.
May 9 – The owner of Bulgaria’s Lokomotiv Sofia, Ivan Vassilev (pictured), has said he has had enough of fan criticism and that he will pull his funding of the club at the end of the current season.
May 9 – UEFA has signed an agreement with the European Space Agency (ESA) to share space technology solutions it has developed into the European football ecosystem.
May 7 – Japan’s Urawa Red Diamonds have made history as the first team to win three AFC Champions League titles, with a 1-0 win over Saudi Arabia’s Al Hilal in the second leg of the final in Saitama on Sunday.
May 9 – Former Olympian Charmaine Crooks has been elected Canada Soccer president for one year with the promise she will unify the membership and bring the sport “back to its rightful place”.
May 9 – South African football has been rocked by the sudden resignation of Tebogo Motlanthe, the CEO of the South African Football Association (SAFA).
May 7 – Jamaica’s Khadija Shaw and Canada’s Alphonso Davies have been voted 2022 Concacaf Women’s and Men’s Players of the Year.
May 5 – Brazil’s Bahia have become the latest club to join the City Football Group (CFG), the owners of English giants Manchester City.
May 5 – They reportedly cut their wage bill by 15%, were not predicted even to make the top four yet have now won their first Scudetto for 33 years with an insurmountable 16-point lead and five games still to play.