November 9 – England’s Nations League match against Iceland next week has been plunged into doubt because of the UK government’s travel ban which has now been extended to Denmark.
November 9 – Austrian prosecutors are said to have dropped proceedings, stretching back almost three years, against the country’s FA President Leo Windtner (pictured) over a $100,000 payment made shortly before Sepp Blatter’s re-election as FIFA president in 2015.
November 9 – Zinedine Zidane’s rotation policy backfired once more after his Real Madrid slid to a dispiriting 4-1 defeat at Valencia, missing a chance to go top of the table in La Liga.
November 6 – UEFA says it has overseen 61,859 Covid-19 tests since August, allowing more than 500 European matches to be played and making football one of the safest environments in the world.
November 6 – Aleksander Ceferin has written to FIFA, asking for a change to the handball rule, which the UEFA boss says has caused “growing frustration and discomfort”.
November 6 – Covid-19 continues to play havoc with the Belgian Pro League schedule with Mouscron vs OH Leuven being postponed because of infections at the Walloon club. It’s the third Mouscron game that will require rescheduling.
November 6 – The third tier National Independent Soccer Association (NISA) in the US has announced the owners and management team behind their 11th franchise team which will be based in Chicago.
November 5 – British parliamentarians have asked to quiz the orchestrators of Project Big Picture, the controversial plan that would have handed power to the big six Premier League clubs in return for a £250 million Covid-19 bailout for lower-league clubs, but which never got off the ground.
November 5 – Zamalek scored two late goals as they came from behind to beat Raja Casablanca 3-1 on Wednesday for a 5-1 aggregate victory that sets up a mouth-watering all-Egyptian African Champions League final against arch-rivals Al Ahly on November 27.
November 5 – Sheffield Wednesday have had their points deduction for breaching EFL spending rules halved from 12 to six points.
November 4 – UEFA has moved swiftly to provisionally ban Qarabağ FK communications officer Nurlan Ibrahimov after comments made on social media calling for the killing of all Armenians.
November 4 – More than 100,000 people have so far signed a petition calling for grassroots football to be allowed to continue during the English national lockdown.
November 4 – Austria has postponed domestic cup matches that were scheduled to place this week following the terror attack in Vienna.
November 4 – Italy’s football federation FIGC has launched an investigation into Serie A club Lazio over potential violations of coronavirus health protocols in recent weeks.
November 4 – After it was initially reported that he had been hospitalised purely for tests, Diego Maradona, widely regarded as one of three finest footballers ever along with Pele and Lionel Messi, has undergone successful brain surgery for a blood clot in a specialist private clinic, his doctor confirmed.