September 1 – UEFA has drawn the first qualifying round of its Champions League which will also complete the line-up for its new Women’s Europa Cup that will debut this season.
September 1 – Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe (pictured) has hailed the 2024 African Nations Championship (CHAN) as the most successful edition in the history of the competition.
September 1 – The Argentine Football Association (AFA) has added another partner to its fast expanding sponsorship portfolio, officially welcoming consumer electronics giant TCL as its newest technology partner at the Lionel Andrés Messi training complex.
September 1 – The Special One and The Baby-Faced Assassin, aka José Mourinho and Ole Gunnar Solskjær, now have two things in common. Firstly, both have been fired from Manchester United, and now they have both been relieved of their jobs in the Turkish capital, Istanbul, by Fenerbahçe and Beşiktaş, respectively.
By Bernd Fisa
In July, thanks to Javier Tebas Medrano and Fran Canal, I fulfilled a childhood dream at San Fermín in Pamplona. Weeks later, Fran and Rafa Sáenz welcomed me into the world of C.A. Osasuna. Authentic, intense, and deeply rooted in identity, Osasuna and the El Sadar stadium feel like an extension of the encierro. That’s my takeaway in the Diario de Navarra.
August 28 – UEFA held the draw for the Champions League league stage last night and there was not a politician in sight. Off-stage there was noise from Europe’s political elite of the threat to the European sports model of playing league fixtures overseas, but this draw was about football. FIFA take note.
August 29 – Germany, Poland, Portugal and the Nordic pair of Denmark and Sweden will bid for Euro 2029, European governing body UEFA confirmed today.
August 29 – New Zealand’s Wellington Phoenix are weighing legal action against the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) after being left out of the region’s inaugural Professional League.
August 29 – A report into the impact of expanded UEFA club competitions for small and medium-sized markets, finds that they have created clear benefits in terms of increased visibility for sponsors and broadcasters, and increased credibility in the transfer market.
August 29 – Some people have buildings named after them, some put their names on their buildings, some have streets named after them. Very few have a day designated to them. Not even FIFA super-supremo Gianni Infantino or US president Donald Trump, have that.
August 29 – Former Swedish international Zlatan Ibrahimović received the 2025 UEFA President’s Award at the UEFA Champions League draw in Monaco yesterday.
August 28 – Aston Villa Women Football Club has hired Maggie Murphy as managing director.
August 28 – Italy’s Serie A says it is “astonished” by EU Commissioner Glenn Micallef’s comments that playing regular-season European football games outside Europe would be a ‘betrayal’ of the sport’s identity and community roots.
August 28 – Paul Conway has been removed from AS Nancy Lorraine’s board of directors, the French Ligue 2 club confirmed.
August 28 – On the eve of the Champions League draw adidas has unveiled the official match balls for the league phase of the 2025/26 men’s Champions League and the Women’s Champions League.