July 19 – UEFA has renewed sports marketing agency Two Circles as its exclusive sponsorship agency for UEFA Women’s Football. The agency will also handle media sales for the Women’s Champions League for the 2025-2030 commercial cycle.
July 19 – Eintracht Frankfurt have agreed a three-year deal with Kumho, which will see the Korean tyre brand become the club’s official tyre partner until 2027.
July 19 – FIFA has selected On Location, a premium global hospitality and travel agency, to be the official high-end hospitality provider of the 2026 World Cup being hosted jointly hosted by the US, Canada and Mexico.
July 19 – International betting brand Parimatch has agreed an exclusive regional partnership with the Argentine Football Association (AFA).
July 19 – West Ham United are plotting a move for 33-year-old France midfielder N’Golo Kante. The former Chelsea man who put on an impressive display at Euro 2024, has spent the past season in Saudi Arabia with Al Ittihad.
July 18 – On the eve of a scheduled extraordinary FIFA council meeting to decide the fate of Israel’s immediate future in international football, human rights and pressure groups have called on the world governing body to suspend the country from the international game.
July 18 – The racism row concerning members of Argentina’s Copa America-winning squad has taken a dramatic twist with the sacking by the government of undersecretary for Sports, Julio Garro.
July 18 – Angel City have agreed terms for the sale of a ‘majority’ stake in the LA-based NWSL club to Willow Bay and Bob Iger, giving the club a $250 million valuation, the highest of any women’s team in professional sport worldwide.
July 18 – Real Madrid is the world’s most valuable football club brand, according to the latest report by brand evaluation consultancy Brand Finance.
July 18 – Italian prosecutors have requested that former Juventus chairman Andrea Agnelli, one of the most powerful figures in European football in his heyday, and other former executives of the club stand trial over allegations of false accounting during their tenure.
July 18 – The AFC has drawn the first two group stages for its inaugural Women’s Champions League that will see 13 teams kick off play in August 25-31.
July 18 – Real Madrid say a Spanish court has given a suspended eight-month prison sentence to a person who racially abused Vinícius Júnior and Antonio Rudiger in the comments section of a popular Spanish sports news website.
July 18 – Argentina have strengthened their grip on the top spot of the FIFA World Ranking following their Copa America win maintaining their lead over second placed France who crashed out in semi-finals of Euro 2024.
July 18 – Dynamo Kyiv and Partizan Belgrade will play their home and away matches in the second qualifying round in the Champions League without away fans, following an agreement reached by the two clubs and approved by UEFA.
July 18 – UEFA have selected their official Team of the Tournament following Spain’s victory on Sunday, and Luis de La Fuente’s side continue to dominate even after the final whistle.