By Andrew Warshaw
February 14 – Nine months after the start of one of the world’s biggest ever match fixing probes, almost 100 Turkish officials, including a raft of past and present club Presidents, managers and players, went on trial in Istanbul today.
By David Gold
February 14 – The Spanish football league (LFP) has ended negotiations with the country’s players union (AFE) on a deal over wages in a move which threatens to cause another player’s strike.
By David Gold in Sochi
February 14 – Russia 2018 have reaffirmed their commitment to ensure that beer companies can advertise in stadiums during the World Cup.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 13 – Glasgow Rangers, one of the world’s most iconic clubs, filed for administration today in arguably the starkest example yet of football’s fragile finances.
By David Owen
February 13 – MasterCard has extended its sponsorship of the UEFA Champions League, the premier competition for European football clubs, until 2015.
By Sara Evans
February 13 – Grand Prix Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based sports and entertainment company, have announced the appointment of Alan Rothenberg (pictured), the man credited with the currrent growth of soccer in the United States, as chairman of the Board of directors of their newly sports division.
By David Gold
February 13 – The Confederation of African Football (CAF) Executive Committee is donating $150,000 (€114,000/£95,000) to the families of victims from the recent Port Said tragedy which saw at least 74 supporters killed after an Egyptian league game.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 13 – Despite being regarded as one of the less affluent FIFA groupings, African football has announced record financial earnings.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 13 – African nations have steadfastly refused to bow to European pressure to stage their showpiece tournament, the African Cup of Nations, every four years instead of two.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 13 – Seven months after becoming an independent country following a bloody civil war, South Sudan has been admitted as the 54th member of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), paving the way for it to be named as the 209th FIFA nation.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 12 – FIFA is withholding the annual pension of its former vice-president Jack Warner (pictured) following last year’s cash-for-votes scandal, according to reports in his native Trinidad.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 12 – Controversial African powerbroker Issa Hayatou (pictured) has been handed a vote of confidence to remain as President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) despite being recently reprimanded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) over corruption allegations.
By David Gold
February 11 – The entire Ajax Supervisory Board have offered to resign to bring to an end the civil war between those supportive of, and those opposed to, the plans of club legend Johan Cruyff (pictured), which continues to paralyse the Dutch champions.
By David Gold
February 11 – Uncertainty surrounds an Asian Champions League qualifier between Adelaide United of Australia and Indonesia’s Persipura, who were reinstated in the competition by a provisional Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) judgement.
By Andrew Warshaw
February 10 – Muslim women are being discouraged from taking up football because of the worldwide ban of the hijab, the Islamic headscarf, according to FIFA vice-president Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan, the man leading the campaign to change the rules.