September 18 – The UEFA Champions League is back, and with it comes a dramatic shift in how we can consume the best football on the planet. Amazon Prime Video, fresh from signing a three-year, £450 million deal, will broadcast 17 games a season and for the first time, viewers can experience Prime Vision, a broadcast feed straight out of a video game.
September 18 – La Liga’s Atlético de Madrid have announced a continuation of their long-term relationship with gaming giants EA SPORTS that began in 2017. The agreement ensures that fans of both the club and gaming platform are first to receive exclusive digital Atlético content.
September 17 – The Champions League kicked off last night with Belgian champions Union Saint-Gilloise enjoying a dream debut in the competition with a comprehensive 3-1 victory away to PSV Eindhoven.
September 17 – UEFA and Groupe Amaury, co-organisers of the Ballon d’Or since last year, have announced Qatar Airways as the first-ever presenting partner of the 69th Ballon d’Or ceremony, with the winner of football’s most prestigious individual accolade set to be unveiled on September 22 in Paris.
September 17 – It feels like a cliché, but Italian football has once again found itself dragged into the world of organised crime. On Tuesday, Serie C side Crotone was placed under judicial administration for a year after prosecutors uncovered what they described as “sufficient evidence” of mafia infiltration.
September 16 – The proportion of minutes given to players under the age of 20 across Europe’s 20 leading leagues remained at a record 6% for the 2024/25 season, according to new data released in UEFA’s European Club Talent and Competition Landscape report on Monday.
September 16 – Amid an increasingly congested calendar, UEFA and FIFPRO Europe have once again called for the protection of player health.
September 16 – Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called for Israel to be excluded from international sports competitions over its actions in Gaza.
September 16 – Turkey’s Galatasaray, in partnership with Tatilsepeti, has launched its own travel agency. It is called Gstatil and is branded with the Turkish club’s colours of yellow and red.
September 16 – After three straight promotions, Wrexham AFC’s fairy tale rise has seen them climb the pyramid all the way to the EFL Championship. But the step up has already been testing, with the club finding early-season results hard to come by and manager Phil Parkinson under increasing pressure.
September 16 – Argentina icon and GOAT contender Lionel Messi has been breaking records on the pitch for nearly two decades. Now he’s rewriting history off it. A pristine 2004-05 Panini Mega Cracks rookie card of the Inter Miami superstar has sold for an eye watering $1.5 million through Fanatics Collect’s new private sales network, setting the benchmark as the most expensive soccer card ever.
September 16 – The San Jose Earthquakes set a new club attendance benchmark on Saturday night, drawing 50,978 fans to Levi’s Stadium for their 4-2 defeat to LAFC. The figure surpassed the Quakes’ previous record of 50,850, set in 2019 against the LA Galaxy at Stanford Stadium.
September 16 – While Lionel Messi’s contract with Inter Miami has still to be formally renewed for next season, his presence at the club is secured with the youth academy set to wear the Leo Messi brand, starting with the 2025/26 season.
September 15 – UEFA’s European Club Talent and Competition Landscape report, released this morning, has underlined two of the defining features of modern European football: the growing effort to protect players from overload and the relentless rise in transfer spending.
Across the continent’s top 20 leagues, clubs used more players than ever before in 2024/25 – a decision UEFA say is a conscious rebuttal of the increasing player workload.
September 14 – UEFA’s record-breaking Women’s EURO 2025 saw a €220 million boost in economic activity for host nation Switzerland.
UEFA has released more numbers surrounding EURO 2025 that saw 29 of the 31 games sold-out, and an average attendance of more than 20,000 for the first time at a Women’s EURO. In total a record 657,291 tickets were sold, of which 35% went to international spectators.