June 9 – Concacaf completed their first round of 2022 World Cup qualifying last night, with six nations progressing to the next knock out stage that will whittle them down to three teams for the final 8-team qualifying group.
June 10 – The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) is set to add a 12th team to its competition. San Diego will join the Los Angeles-based Angel City FC debuting in the 2022 season.
June 9 – Debbie Hewitt is set to become the first female chair of the English Football Association in its 158-year-old history after being nominated to replace Greg Clarke.
June 9 – Brazil’s national team have said they are against the hosting of the Copa America in their country – some players for professional reasons, others for humanitarians reasons – but have confirmed that they will participate in the tournament that was switched to Brazil at the eleventh hour.
June 9 – Italy’s Serie A and telecoms giant TIM have extended their partnership with a new three-season deal, taking the sponsorship deal beyond the 25-year mark.
June 8 – The first round of Concacaf qualification for the Qatar 2022 World Cup reaches its final stage of group games tonight with five of the six groups going down to the wire.
June 8 – Brazil won’t boycott the Copa America on home soil despite the team’s players expected release of a statement today (Tuesday) expressing their criticism at the way organisers and the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) have pressed ahead with the tournament in the pandemic-stricken country.
June 8 – In a potentially significant twist to the European Super League fallout, Spanish media are reporting that the Swiss Ministry of Justice has barred both UEFA and FIFA – which are based in Switzerland – from taking premature sanctions against the aborted league’s remaining founder members.
June 8 – A Turkish court has sentenced a media executive and a former police chief to more than 1,000 years each in prison for conspiring to bring match-fixing charges against top-flight Fenerbahce.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 7 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferinhas issued a no-holds-barred rebuke of his one-time friend and colleague Andrea Agnelli, saying he is no longer on speaking terms with the Juventus boss for his alleged duplicity over involvement in the European Super League.
June 7 – Bruised and battered by a combination of the Covid crisis and political unrest, the Copa America has suffered another blow with Brazil’s star players lambasting the hosting of the tournament that starts June 13.
By Paul Nicholson
June 7 – It has been a long time coming but it was a final worth waiting for. The United States overcame Mexico 3-2 in extra time in the final of Concacaf’s inaugural Nations League, a competition that began in 2019, but finished with all the theatrics and drama that will concrete this sport into the North American psyche.
By Samindra Kunti
June 7 – Brazil supremo Rogerio Caboclo has been suspended for 30 days from his presidency at the Confederation of Brazilian Football (CBF) after a formal accusation of sexual harassment.
June 7 – The draw for the Africa Cup of Nations, scheduled for June 25 in Yaounde, has been postponed, throwing yet another Continental showpiece tournament into doubt.
June 7 – Retail behemoth Anders Holch Povlsen has invested in leading Danish outfit FC Midtjylland to obtain 25% of the shares and become the club’s second largest shareholder after owner Matthew Benham.