By Mark Baber
June 26 – Talks between the A-League and Professional Players Australia (PFA) have broken down with the Football Federation Australia (FFA) bosses accusing players of putting the future of the League in jeopardy and the PFA considering legal and industrial action.
By Jaroslaw Adamowski
June 26 – Poland’s leading chemical company Grupa Azoty is planning to become the majority shareholder in top tier club Pogon Szczecin. The company is currently the club’s main sponsor and is in negotiation with the municipal authorities of Szczecin to buy the club.
June 26 – The International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) and the Organization of American States (OAS) have teamed up to launch a joint Centre of Excellence for Major Sporting Events and Sustainable Development.
By Alexander Krassimirov
June 26 – The on-off ownership of Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia has been resolved with Todor Batkov announcing that he is stepping down after 17 years at the helm. At an emotional press conference the lawyer said that he will transfer his shares to the Chairman of the Board of the club, Ivo Tonev, and two other businessmen, Alexander Angelov and Nikolai Ivanov.
By Mark Baber
June 25 – In the wake of tiny island territory Guam (population 165,124) defeating India (population 1.252 billion) in a World Cup qualifier on June 16, attention has turned to the issue of people of Indian origin (PIOs) who may offer salvation for the country’s national team. However, the Indian government opposes their inclusion in the national team, setting up a potentially dangerous confrontation with FIFA.
By Alexander Krassimirov
June 25 – Humiliated by their forced relegation to Bulgaria’s amateur leagues, the country’s tax collectors have heaped further misery on the team by announcing an auction of the club’s brand assets – it’s name, logo and trademarks.
June 25 – UEFA has selected six proposals for its Research Grant Programme for the 2015/16 programme. 52 applications were received from 25 different UEFA member associations supported projects.
By Paul Nicholson
June 24 – The Greeks have made an attempt to plaster over the match-fixing crisis that has rocked the game in the country and forced a stand-off between government politicians and football’s governing officials. The Hellenic Football Federation (HFF) has signed up with betting monitoring specialists Sportradar for a series of 120 match-fixing prevention workshops over three years.
By Mark Baber
June 24 – The Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) has had a busy week, criticising national teams for their lack of success, holding manager Steven Keshi to account for allegedly making a job application to another team and attempting to haul record-breaker Vincent Enyeama up on charges he brought Nigeria into disrepute.
By Jaroslaw Adamowski
June 24 – Polish construction company Murapol has unveiled plans to take over top tier club Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biala. The builder, which currently serves as the Ekstraklasa side’s main sponsor and owns a 35% stake in Podbeskidzie, is aiming to increase its shareholding to become the majority owner.
June 24 – Plans for AS Roma’s new stadium, the Stadio della Roma, are progressing rapidly with the International Centre for Sport Security (ICSS) having now been appointed to provide the security strategy and design.
By Matt Scott
June 24 – UEFA last night issued a defiant statement shrugging off a preliminary decision from a Belgian court that ruled against further restrictions in its Financial Fair Play regulations.
By Samindra Kunti
June 23 – In recent years Ajax Amsterdam has become subservient to the business interests of Johan Cruyff, according to a report in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. Youth staff must follow a course at the Cruyff institute and Cruyff, rather than keeping the knowledge to Ajax, sells the secrets of the youth academy to foreign football clubs.
June 23 – Parma have finally been stripped of their status as a professional football club as the administrators of the bankrupt club conceded defeat in their attempts to find a buyer after Baseball legend Mike Piazza and Giuseppe Corrado pulled out of talks.
By Alexander Krassimirov
June 23 – With the future of CSKA Sofia now sealed in the amateur leagues but under the financial stewardship of Bugaria’s richest man Vasil Bozhkov, Turkish businessman Deniz Kiziloz (pictured) who several times tried to start negotiations with the club, said he now intends to invest in another Bulgarian club – Lokomotiv Plovdiv.