July 8 – Sweden face Poland in Lucerne this evening with a place in the UEFA Women’s EURO 2025 quarter-finals within reach. A win for Peter Gerhardsson’s side, combined with Germany avoiding defeat against Denmark, would confirm their passage from Group C with a game to spare.
March 15 – Holders Manchester City have yet again been drawn against Real Madrid in the heavyweight clash of the Champions League quarterfinals, a tie that sees the most recent winners of Europe’s premier club competition take on its most successful side.
March 15 – The San Diego Wave, who this weekend will start just their third season in the NWSL, will set a new record for the most expensive sale of a women’s club franchise following a staged $113 million deal agreed with Los Angeles-based couple Arthur Levine and Lauren Leichtman.
March 15 – Football Australia and the Uzbekistan Football Association (UFA) have been nominated as the recommended Host Associations for the 2026 and 2029 editions of the AFC Women’s Asian Cup.
March 15 – Germany coach Julian Nagelsmann has shaken up his under-performing squad before this summer’s European Championship, which the country is hosting, by naming six new players for warmups against France and the Netherlands.
March 15 – In a surprise move, global governing body FIFA has awarded five expanded U-17 World Cups to Qatar and five 24-team U-17 Women’s World Cups to Morocco, highlighting Qatar’s enduring influence in the game and the organisation’s insatiable expansion drive.
March 15 – The Jamaican Football Federation (JFF) will hold the postponed election for president on Sunday (March 17), with incumbent Michael Ricketts going head-head with challenger Raymond Anderson, currently the JFF’s first vice-president.
March 15 – Norwegian club Frederikstad have voted to pressure their national federation to boycott the 2034 World Cup in Saudi Arabia that FIFA is expected to award to the Arab Kingdom this year because there are no other bidding candidates.
March 15 – As Roma, Inter Milan and Arsenal are the three most lethal teams when it comes to taking goal chances in Europe’s Big 5 leagues.
March 15 – European sponsorship has surged to €30.9 billion, marking a return to pre-pandemic levels, according to the latest research by the European Sponsorship Association (ESA) in collaboration with Nielsen Sports.
March 15 – French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera, who is spearheading the organisation of this summer’s Paris Olympics, has been placed under investigation for defamation.
March 15 – The Europa League quarter finalists have been decided following a night of busy night of knockout football, as the draw lines up a potential dream final between Xabi Alonso’s high-flying Bayer Leverkusen and Jurgen Klopp’s Liverpool final game.
March 15 – Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr has urged UEFA to take action after once again being the subject of alleged racist abuse.
March 15 –Minnesota United have pinched Erik ten Hag’s first team coach at Manchester United, Eric Ramsay, to be the MLS club’s head coach, taking the position previously held by another Englishman, Adrian Heath, who left in 2023.
March 14 – The Palestinian football federation says former national team member Mohammed Barakat was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
March 13 – LaLiga’s Sevilla have agreed a 10-year refinancing valued at €108 million. This club said the new money will provide long-term stability following a period of post-COVID losses, and empower the execution its strategic plan with “full effectiveness”.