Safe CEO Motlanthe quits, Lydia Monyepao steps up
May 9 – South African football has been rocked by the sudden resignation of Tebogo Motlanthe, the CEO of the South African Football Association (SAFA).
World Football
Standouts Shaw and Davies top 2022 Concacaf Players of the Year vote
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.
City Football Group add Brazil’s top flight Bahia to stable of club ownership
May 5 – Brazil’s Bahia have become the latest club to join the City Football Group (CFG), the owners of English giants Manchester City.
Napoli celebrate first Serie A title win since 1990
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.
Safety fears force UEFA to block foreign referees from officiating in Greek play-offs
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.
Concacaf opens ‘game changing’ Coaching Convention application to MAs
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.
Televisa breaks out gaming and football businesses into new listed entity
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.
CAF opens broadcast tender for AFCON 2023 and Champions League
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.
Mourinho secretly mic’d up for encounter with worst referee ever
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.
LAFC and Club Leon set up MLS vs LigaMX Concacaf Champions League final
May 4 – For a second consecutive season the Concacaf Champions League Final will be contested between a team from LigaMX and the MLS.
Messi to leave PSG as fans march on Neymar’s home demanding he goes as well
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.
Montenegrin clubs fail licensing criteria leaving just 4 competitors for 3 UEFA club slots
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).
UEFA sets stage for inaugural 2023/24 Women’s Nations League with group draw
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.
Messi suspended by PSG for taking Saudi trip
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.
Concacaf releases draw detail for 2023/24 Nations League and route to 2024 Copa America
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.