May 5 – UEFA has ruled out the use of foreign referees in Greek Super League playoff matches over fears for their safety after a series of incidents. The decision was announced by UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin, who sent a letter to Panagiotis Baltakos,president of Hellenic Football, expressing his concern.
May 5 – Concacaf has taken a big step forward with its initiative to raise the standards of coaching across the region and provide support and education for its coaches and federations with the opening up of the Concacaf Coaching Convention.
May 5 – Mexican entertainment giant Grupo Televisa is spinning off its betting and football interests into a new business entity that will be separated from its traditional broadcast business.
May 5 – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has opened an invitation to tender (ITT) for the broadcast rights to the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations.
May 5 – Controversial Roma boss Jose Mourinho, rarely out of the news wherever he manages, wore a secret hidden microphone to “protect” himself against “the worst referee I have met in my life” during his side’s 1-1 draw with Monza earlier this week.
May 4 – For a second consecutive season the Concacaf Champions League Final will be contested between a team from LigaMX and the MLS.
May 4 – Lionel Messi’s time at Paris St-Germain is over following an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia for which he was fined and suspended for two weeks.
May 4 – Only four clubs from Montenegro have been granted a license for next year’s European club tournaments. As many as nine clubs submitted documents for licensing, but most of them failed to meet the financial requirements, announced the Montenegro football federation (FSCG).
May 4 – The draw for the group stage of the inaugural UEFA Women’s Nations League 2023/24 saw 51 of UEFA’s 55 nations in the pot.
May 3 – Lionel Messi has been suspended by Paris St-Germain for two weeks and will be fined after an unauthorised trip to Saudi Arabia.
May 3 – Concacaf has released details of the 2023/24 Concacaf Nations League (CNL) draw which will frame the first season of the revamped competition and qualification for the major men’s national team competitions to be played in the US in 2024 and 2025. The draw will be held May 16 in Miami.
May 3 – Bulgarian champion club Ludogorets Razgrad has sent an open letter to the Bulgarian Football Union (BFU), the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bulgaria and the Ministry of Youth and Sports calling for action over the fan disturbances at their derby match against CSKA at the Bulgarian Army Stadium on Sunday.
May 2 – UEFA have taken a step further in their proposed rethink of their financial sustainability rules with the creation of a Working Group that will look at ‘squad cost control’ (essentially the issue of wage caps) as well as how transfer fees are accounted for by clubs.
May 2 – Chile’s president Gabriel Boric has intervened after the local derby between Universidad de Chile and Universidad Catolica was abandoned on Sunday due to fan disorder.
May 2 – Crowd violence and the death of a supporter marred the quarter-finals of the African Champions League this weekend.