April 27 – Coventry City have extended their long-running kit partnership with hummel, tying the Danish supplier to the club’s long-awaited return to the Premier League on a long-term deal.
April 26 – Atanas Bostandjiev, the founder and CEO of the investment firm Gemcorp Capital, has become the new majority owner of Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia. The news was confirmed during a press conference by Nasko Sirakov, who has held the majority stake in the club since June 2020.
April 27 – Arsenal have taken a step towards the Women’s Champions League final with a 2-1 defeat of Olympique Lyon in the first leg.
April 27 – Tottenham Hotspur have confirmed that Xavi Simons has suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, dealing a major blow both to the club’s run-in and to the Netherlands ahead of this summer’s World Cup.
April 27 – Andrea Agnelli, the former Juventus president, has launched a new sports investment firm, Gamma Waves Partners, alongside Juve icon Giorgio Chiellini and entrepreneur Rocco Benetton.
April 16 – Concacaf is opening Concacaf House in Vancouver from April 26–30, 2026, the first in a series of fan-facing activations bringing the Confederation to life during the World Cup.
April 27 – Arsenal have released a new short film by the acclaimed Oscar-winning director, Spike Lee, in the club’s first collaboration with the Academy Award winner. It’s called ‘Who Are Ya?’, and it’s the centrepiece of Arsenal’s activation with global fintech partner Airwallex.
April 27 – Two clubs in form. Two clubs unfamiliar with each other but with forward fire power that . And one place in the Concacaf Champions Cup Final on the line.
April 26 – Every World Cup gets the same media treatment in the nervous months before kick-off. The infrastructure won’t be ready, fans don’t know what to expect, everything is too expensive, the host country isn’t up to it.
April 27 – The semi-finals of the Concacaf Champions Cup kick off on Tuesday night with Nashville at home in the first leg to Tigres UANL at GEODIS Park.
April 24 – Three years ago FC Machida Zelvia were playing in Japan’s second tier. Saturday night in Jeddah they will play the final of the biggest club competition in Asia, the AFC Champions League Elite, against one of Asia’s most storied team, Al Ahli Saudi.
It is a remarkable journey for Machida and their coach Go Kuroda, who face an Al Ahli side who are rewriting their own history and on the brink of equalling an Asian club competition record themselves in their home town Jeddah.
April 24 – Véron Mosengo Omba former CAF general secretary and ultra-close ally of FIFA president Gianni Infantino, is not done in Africa just yet.
April 24 – A World Cup travel advisory has been issued for the United States, but not by a foreign government, by American civil rights groups.
Amnesty International and dozens of US civil and human rights organisations released the advisory on Thursday, warning visitors to the summer’s tournament of “rising authoritarianism and increasing violence” in the country hosting it.
April 24 – A trial of Arsène Wenger’s proposed ‘daylight’ offside law is beginning to show early patterns in the Canadian Premier League (CPL) – though not quite where many expected.
April 24 – John Textor has been removed from command at Brazilian club Botafogo following a court order Thursday, handed down by the Arbitration Court of the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV).