July 12 – French club Bastia have failed in their appeal against relegation to the French third division, having already been demoted once on financial grounds after finishing bottom of Ligue 1.
July 13 – Manchester United sponsor DHL has activated a marketing campaign that invites Manchester United fans to host a match. DHL will deliver the match ball and the playing kits for the teams, wherever in the world the match is to be played.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 12 – The crisis enveloping Sierra Leone football has taken a further twist with the country’s sports minister facing accusations of deliberately misleading the public in an attempt to oust the country’s female FA president Isha Johansen.
July 12 – Capped 80 times by France, Florent Malouda has sparked an eligibility investigation having played in the Gold Cup group match for French Guiana against Honduras which was drawn 0-0 last night.
By Mark Baber
July 12 – A roadmap was agreed on Sunday between the Sudanese Minister of Youth and Sports, the Sudan Football Federation, and the so-called ’30 April Group’ to try and restore the country to FIFA after last week’s suspension.
July 12 – Brazilian club Vasco da Gama have been ordered to play home matches behind closed doors after a 27-year-old fan was shot dead during clashes with military police.
By Paul Nicholson
July 12 – English football has never had it so good as Deloitte’s Annual Review of Football Finance shows total revenue for the 92 league clubs hitting a record £4.4bn for the 2015/16 season.
July 12 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has reminded member associations that their clubs must settle all outstanding payments by August 31 or face exclusion from the AFC Champions League in 2018.
July 12 – In a rare rejection of a move to China, Cologne’s French striker Anthony Modeste has turned down a €35 million transfer to Chinese Super League club Tianjin Quanjian.
July 12 – Ajax’s Abdelhak Nouri will be taken out of an induced coma after tests showed he suffered no heart or brain damage when he collapsed in a friendly in the Austrian Alps on Saturday.
July 12 – French international forward Karim Benzema has won a crucial ruling in his bid to clear his name in a long-running sex tape scandal.
July 12 – Two high-profile Iranian footballing figures have called for the ban on women attending major men’s sports events to be lifted.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 11 – Six months after FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura visited the country on a mission to resolve a festering internal dispute, the annual congress of Sierra Leone’s FA, scheduled for Friday to pave the way for elections, has been suspended by FIFA.
By Andrew Warshaw
July 11 – Three high-ranking Portuguese politicians have resigned “to avoid harming the government” amid an investigation into allegations that they took all-expenses-paid trips to Euro 2016 from sponsors of the national team.
July 11 – Manchester United has launched a new streaming service at mutv.com which will enable subscribers to sign up to the channel without having to go through a satellite subscription. The channel will only be available to subscribers in the UK and Ireland at the start.