By Andrew Warshaw
July 1 – Following increasing speculation, Sepp Blatter has decided not to attend this weekend’s Women’s World Cup Final in Canada citing “personal reasons”, a significant break with tradition that has immediately been linked to the FBI criminal investigation into football’s world governing body.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 30 – With the women’s World Cup reaching the semi-final stage today and tomorrow, questions are being asked about why the top two countries in the world ended up being in the same half of the draw.
By Paul Nicholson
June 26 – The Women’s World Cup quarter finals kick off tonight in Canada with European heavyweights Germany and France facing each other in the first match in Montreal before China facing the US in Ottawa. The winners will meet each other on June 30 in the semi-final in Montreal.
By Mark Baber
June 24 – Ahead of Friday’s quarter final against the USA, China’s women’s team, known as the ‘Steel Roses’, have been awarded a record bonus for their accomplishments in the tournament to date, in line with China’s president, Xi Jinping’s plan to revitalise football in the “sleeping giant” of world football.
By Ben Nicholson
June 19 – The FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada is breaking new ground and old records, indicating that the hoped-for rise in the global profile of the women’s game is becoming a reality.
By Samindra Kunti
June 11 – The 2015 FIFA Women’s World Cup has caught the imagination of the fans and TV viewers, but ultimately the success of the tournament may depend on host nation Canada’s fortunes.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 8 – With no senior men’s tournament to take centre stage, record after record looks set to be smashed at the women’s World Cup in Canada which began at the weekend.
By Samindra Kunti
April 29 – President of the French Football Federation (FFF) Noël Le Graët (pictured), has claimed that EURO 2016 will be “extraordinary”, and that preparations are well advanced.
By David Owen
April 26 – FIFA is probably going to have to make do with the same size of financial contribution from the Olympic Movement in 2017-20 as it is getting in the present four-year cycle, culminating with the Rio 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
By David Owen
April 7 – SNCF, the French national railway company, has signed up as a sponsor of the Euro 2016 football tournament to be played in the country next year. The group has become the competition’s official national transport partner and its fourth official national sponsor.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 1 – FIFA has confirmed that British-based camera-based company Hawk-Eye will provide goal-line technology for the Women’s World Cup in Canada in June – the first time the system has been employed for the tournament.
By David Owen
April 1 – The all too brief experiment with fielding men’s and women’s Great Britain Olympic football teams is over. Barely a few weeks after signalling its desire to continue sending teams to the Olympics, the Football Association (FA) has been obliged to backtrack and to formally withdraw its proposal.
March 26 – Ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in Canada, details of the Hyundai Young Player Award were revealed on Wednesday at the Vancouver International Auto Show.
By David Owen
March 17 – FIFA has backed down over the inclusion of the Amazonian city of Manaus on the list of venues for the Rio 2016 Olympic football tournaments.
March 9 – Abby Wambach, the United States’ best-known women’s player who led the ultimately unsuccessful bid to play next year’s women’s World Cup on natural grass, says FIFA and its national federations should do more to help female players become self-sufficient.