September 24 – Australia first qualified for the World Cup finals in 1974. It was a momentous achievement for a team of mainly immigrants, playing the game as part timers, who were written off as no-hopers.
September 24 – The English FA has launched an investigation into claims that Preston forward Milutin Osmajic bit Blackburn’s Owen Beck during their Championship match on Sunday.
September 24 – UEFA has admitted that the decision not to award a penalty for Marc Cucurella’s handball during Spain’s 2-1 extra-time victory over Germany in the Euro 2024 quarter-final was a mistake.
September 24 – Welsh club The New Saints, the first team from the Welsh leagues to ever qualify for European club competition, will play their league phase matches in the 2024/25 UEFA Conference League in England at the 9,875 capacity Croud Meadow, the home of Shrewsbury Town who play in England’s League 1.
September 24 – Manchester United are set to appoint architecture firm Foster + Partners to develop a ‘masterplan’ for the Old Trafford Stadium District, covering the club-owned land that surrounds the existing stadium.
September 24 – Bulgaria’s CSKA Sofia has begun the second stage of the reconstruction of the Bulgarian Army stadium in Sofia. Following the levelling of the old stadium, the club is now preparing for the construction of the new.
September 24 – Torrential rain has forced League 2 AFC Wimbledon’s Carabao Cup third-round tie against Newcastle United to be postponed due to a sinkhole caused by heavy flooding at the club’s Plough Lane stadium.
September 23 – North Korea’s return to international football post-pandemic has been nothing short of spectacular with the defeat of Japan 1-0 in the final of the U-20 Women’s World Cup to claim the tournament for a third time.
September 23 – The new company overseeing the top two tiers of English women’s football and title sponsor Barclays have agreed the biggest deal in the history of the domestic game.
September 23 – When FIFA announced the expansion of the Club World Cup, causing a widespread backlash from elite players and their unions over potential burnout, it slipped many peoples’ minds that a totally separate competition with a similar format to the old CWC was also on the calendar.
September 23 – Chaos has unravelled at Roma, one of Europe’s most iconic clubs, with the firing of a club hero, fan protests and now the resignation of the CEO.
September 23 – The race for ownership stakes in the NWSL in the US has a new entrant with billionaire investor Marc Lasry reportedly close to taking a majority stake in the North Carolina Courage.
September 23 – Sports-focussed blockchain project Chiliz Group has launched Chiliz Includ3d, the newly branded arm of the group that will aggregate its various social impact initiative.
September 23 – Anderlecht have dismissed their Danish coach Brian Riemer following a series of underwhelming performances at the start of the new Belgian league season.
September 23 – Córdoba FC, promoted back into the second tier of Spain’s LaLiga via the play-offs at the end of last season, have announced San Francisco-based sports data analytics and software company Short Circuit Science as a minority investor.