September 11 – Concacaf’s final group round of 2026 World Cup qualifiers saw Jamaica get off to a fast start with two wins, while Honduras and Suriname continued their form from the Summer Gold Cup to top their groups after two rounds.
September 11 – Following the latest international window, world players’ union FIFPro has once again repeated its demand to establish a sustainable match calendar in a bid to address player workload issues.
September 11 – Serie A giants Juventus officially inaugurated their very own Hall of Fame this week at the Juventus Museum, giving La Vecchia Signora a permanent home.
September 11 – Turkish Super League side Fenerbahçe have broken ground on a major new project based in the Maltepe district of Istanbul, which will be the site of a brand-new football academy.
September 11 – La Liga Champions FC Barcelona have renewed their partnership with Sebang Global Battery, extending their deal until 2028. To the naked eye, it looks like another routine commercial announcement, but under the surface, the deal underlines Barça’s continued reliance on external partners to prop up a balance sheet still creaking under the weight of the Nou Camp redevelopment.
September 10 – English football lobby group Fair Game has launched the 2025 edition of its report that analyses the health of England’s 164 professional and semi-profession clubs, and it isn’t comfortable reading.
Fair Game says its ‘Fair Game Index’ reveals “the shocking state of football’ in England warning the UK’s newly minted Independent Football Regulator “it has a mammoth task on its hands to shape up the game (with) just four full time clubs are ‘Regulator Ready’.
September 10 – Bolivia stunned five-time world champions Brazil 1-0 in World Cup qualifying to claim a spot in the playoffs for the 2026 tournament.
September 10 – Argentine club Independiente has branded their disqualification from this year’s Copa Sudamericana a “political decision” by governing body Conmebol.
September 10 – FC Barcelona have been forced switched their La Liga match versus Valencia on Saturday to their 6,000-seater training ground – extending the 30-month wait to return to the new-look Spotify Camp Nou, which is as visually impressive as it is useless in its current state.
September 10 – Cristiano Ronaldo scored his 39th goal in FIFA World Cup qualifying on Tuesday night, making him the joint-highest ever international goal scorer alongside Guatemala’s Carlos Ruiz – and three ahead of Argentina’s Lionel Messi.
September 10 – Arsenal Women, the current Champions of Europe, have confirmed a record haul of more than 17,000 seasonal memberships for the 2025/26 Barclays Women’s Super League campaign, a 12% leap on last year that underlines the momentum behind the women’s game and Arsenal in particular.
September 10 – Paris tops a 2025 ranking of sports cities worldwide but hosting major football events and the upcoming 2026 World Cup is proving a driver of cities up the ranking of cities with the strongest association with sport.
September 10 – A day that many football listeners of the beautiful game feared has finally arrived and one of the true greats of commentary in the United States has decided to hang up his microphone.
September 9 – Former Tottenham Hotspur head coach Ange Postecologou has swiftly returned to an English Premier League (EPL) dugout after being named as Nuno Espirito Santo’s replacement at Nottingham Forest.
September 9 – Former Denmark national team manager Kasper Hjulmand will succeed Erik Ten Hag as head coach of German Bundesliga side Bayer 04 Leverkusen.