July 2 – Having looked like a team that were struggling to find any cohesion or common purpose after four straight losses, including a miserable performance in March at the Concacaf Nations League final, suddenly the USA look as though, if not the real deal, they are certainly worth a reappraisal.
By Andrew Warshaw
When Tottenham Hotspur lifted the Europa League trophy in Bilbao on Wednesday to end the club’s 41-year quest for European silverware, penny for the thoughts of a certain Arsene Wenger.
May 23 – Luka Modrić will bid farewell to Real Madrid this summer, with the Club World Cup marking the final chapter of his glittering 12-year career in the Spanish capital.
Saudi Arabian coach Hervé Renard has returned to Saudi Arabia for a second term in charge of the national team that has faltered in 2026 World Cup qualification, but where the expectations of a football-loving nation are sky high.
Mauricio Pochettino needs to put the disastrous performances of the Nations League in March behind him and his team. The Gold Cup is the perfect opportunity but with key players resting or not being released how will be adapt a year out from 2026.
May 23 – Women’s professional football is growing like crazy – it must be because everyone is saying it is. So a sobering piece of analysis by Sportscasting.com that finds England’s Women’s Super League matches showed a 5.1% drop in attendances over the 2024/25 season statistically flies in the face of accepted wisdom.
May 23 – Rematch, a new video gaming football title is set to launch June 19, offering an alternative take on the genre with a third-person, player-controlled format that is based on stripped-back, skill-based gameplay.
May 23 – The UEFA Women’s Champions League has found a new home in the UK with Disney+ clinching a landmark five-year deal to broadcast European women’s football’s premier club competition, wresting the rights from DAZN who had held them for the past four seasons.
May 23 – Hertha BSC will bring its 26-year partnership with Nike to a close at the end of the 2024/25 season, ending one of the Bundesliga’s longest-standing kit supply deals.
May 23 – Tipico and the Deutscher Fußball-Bund (DFB) have confirmed the extension of their ongoing partnership.
May 23 – Liga Portugal has confirmed a new multi-year partnership with ‘materials science’ and branding giant Avery Dennison, naming the US-based firm as the exclusive supplier of player names, numbers, and sleeve badges across the country’s top two professional divisions.
May 23 – Spanish sportswear company Joma Sport has pulled off something of a masterstroke, securing a multi-year partnership with Brentford that will see them become the Premier League’s only Spanish kit supplier from July 2025.
May 22 – Brazil remains the undisputed powerhouse in global football exports, with over 3,000 Brazilian players having featured in foreign leagues since 2020, according to the latest report by the CIES Football Observatory.
May 22 – Aston Villa have opened a new 10,000 square-foot retail space in Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre, marking a significant commercial milestone for the club as they look to capitalise on recent on-pitch success with stronger off-pitch positioning.
May 22 – Morocco has launched the construction tender for the Grand Stade Hassan II, a centrepiece of its 2030 World Cup ambitions and a strong contender to host the tournament’s final.
May 22 – Human rights research and advocacy NGO Fairsquare has accused FIFA of “ad hoc and selective enforcement of its rules” following the world governing body’s failure to act against the Israeli Football Association (IFA).