June 5 – Real Madrid top a ranking of club social media followers by the CIES Football Observatory, as data shows the UEFA Champions League winners have gained more than 40 million followers since 2023.
June 5 – LaLiga’s Valencia CF say they have made significant progress in their long-running effort to complete their new stadium following the sale of land around the stadium site.
June 5 – Bundesliga Champions Bayer Leverkusen have renewed and expanded their long-term partnership with data and analytics platform Kitman Labs.
June 5 – English Championship club Watford is looking to raise £17.5million via a digital share offering with part of the funding to be used to strengthen the playing squad.
June 5 – Having taken ownership of Italy’s Serie A champions on Internazionale on May 22, US investment fund Oaktree Capital Management has wasted no time taking control, appointing a new 10-person board.
June 5 – Manager Thierry Henry has left Kylian Mbappé out of France’s provisional squad for the Paris Olympic Games.
June 5 – Croatia’s HNK Šibenik have unveiled plans for the construction on a new stadium. Next season Šibenik will return to the top tier of Croatian football, after winning Prva NL by one point ahead of Zrinski Jurjevac.
June 4 – FIFA has ruled that Emilio Nsue, the top scorer at the Africa Cup of Nations this year, was never eligible to play for Equatorial Guinea throughout his 11-year international career.
June 4 – Flamengo and River Plate were handed favourable draws for the round of 16 in the Copa Libertadores with ties against Bolivar and Talleres respectively.
June 4 – UEFA has unveiled its Champions League Team of the Season, with Kylian Mbappe making way for future teammate Vinicius Junior in the final XI.
June 4 – La Liga’s RC Celta Vigo has signed a five-year deal with Hummel which will see the Danish sports brand become the club’s official kit supplier until 2029, replacing Adidas.
June 4 – Shopping mall developers Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield (URW) and football training equipment supplier TOCA Football (TOCA) have announced a partnership to open multiple TOCA Social venues throughout Europe.
June 4 – Ligue1 side AS Monaco has announced a new partnership with e-commerce platform ComAve as the Monegasques look to strengthen fan engagement in the new season.
June 4 – Everton, who managed to survive in the English Premier League despite a points deduction, have been plunged into further disarray following the collapse of the long drawn-out takeover of the club by US-based consortium 777 Partners.
June 4 – The English FA has continued its clampdown on betting rule breakers and match-fixing with the suspension of Swansea City’s player liaison officer Huw Lake and formally charging West Ham United’s Lucas Paqueta for match manipulation.