By Andrew Warshaw and Paul Nicholson
November 22 – A report by Deloitte’s sports business consultancy into ending the closed shop league system in the United States and introducing promotion and relegation in the MLS says that there would be substantial long term gains for the sport and professional game in the country.
November 22 – Overall across the Premier League tweets are up this week as players returned from international duty, but total followers were actually down by 8.5% from last week’s increase of 182,000 to 167,000 this week.
By Samindra Kunti
November 22- India will bid to host the 2019 Under-20 World Cup in the coming months as part of its endeavor to develop the game in the country, All India Football Federation president Praful Patel (pictured) said.
November 22 – Tottenham Hotspur are the highest ranked English team by youthfulness in domestic league football in Europe’s five leagues. The ranking is created by taking the average age of match-day line ups with Spurs coming in with an average age of 25.6.
November 22 – The Belgian FA, the KBVB, is set to punish Olivier Deschacht (Anderlecht), Knowledge Musona (Ostende), Tuur Dierckx (Antwerp) and Laurent Henkinet (Beveren), for betting on Belgian club matches.
By Paul Nicholson
November 22 – Bottom of their 2018 final qualifying group after two matches with no points, Sunil Gulati, the president of the US Soccer Federation, has axed US national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann.
November 22 – Digiturk, the Turkish digital TV platform has retained the broadcast right to the Turkish Super League in a $3 billion five year deal – $600 million a year – that is almost double the previous amount Digiturk paid in 2010 in a one-year deal that was extended for three years in 2011.
November 22 – UEFA.com has launched voting for its Team of the Year 2016 with users being asked to pick their team from 40 nominees.
By Andrew Warshaw
November 21 – Their dream is to match Leicester City’s fairytale title success but there is one telling difference between RB Leipzig and last season’s shock Premier league champions: they are arguably the most hated club in Germany.
November 21 – Premier League clubs amassed a whopping 700,000+ new social media connections in the week ending November 13, with more than 277,000 of them on Instagram.
By Paul Nicholson
November 21 – The world’s two largest daily fantasy sports sites (DFS) DraftKings Inc. and FanDuel Inc. are to merge into one mega US corporate gaming operator as they battle against regulatory challenges to their business model.
I know what you’re all thinking: it’s hard to imagine anything the world needs more right now than a new 32-team international club football competition. Believe it or not, however, there are two entities that need this innovation even more than you do: one is FIFA, the world football body; the other is Gianni Infantino, its bashful new President.
November 21 – Two late goals that relegated Swedish club Helsingborgs sparked a pitch invasion win which coach Henrik Larsson and his son, Jordan were abused and attacked by fans. Jordan Larsson, who had earlier scored to put Helsingborgs in fronts, had his shirt ripped off.
November 21 – FIFA has joined the International Olympic Committee in stepping up the pressure on Kuwait over the government’s interference in the country’s sport bodies.
November 21 – Gareth Southgate, England’s interim first-team coach who stepped into the job after the resignation of Sam Allardyce over a newspaper sting, looks ever closer to being given the role on a full-time basis as the country attempts to finally regain some kind of managerial stability.