April 20 – FIFA has said that the NJ Transit prices will have ‘a chilling effect’ on supporters using public transport during the World Cup.
Last week, NJ Transit said that the train commute from New York to the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey will cost $100 and New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill said FIFA should subsidise the public transport.
April 20 – Premier League Bournemouth’s owners Black Knight Football Club are reportedly close to completing a takeover of Exeter Chiefs Rugby Union club.
April 20 – The NWSL Players Association flexed its muscles at the end of last week with the majority of its members opposing the flipping of the league to a fall-to-spring calendar. The Board of Governors is expected to vote on the switch in the last week of April.
April 20 – Relegated from the second division, Belgian club RWDM has taken the Belgian FA (RBFA) and Pro League to court over new regulations governing U-23 teams.
April 20 – Japan underlined their dominance at youth level by lifting the AFC U-20 Women’s Asian Cup title for a seventh time, edging current U20 world champions North Korea 1-0 in the final in Thailand on Saturday.
April 20 – Women’s Super League Football is moving into the fantasy sports space, confirming plans to launch an official game tied to the Barclays Women’s Super League and Barclays Women’s Super League 2 from the start of next season.
April 20 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has added Doha-based sports medicine hospital Aspetar to its partnership roster as the Official Medical Partner of all major AFC club competitions through to June 2029.
April 20 – The Football Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (NS/FS BiH) has renewed its sponsorship with ASA Central Osiguranje with federation general secretary Adnan Džemidžić and ASA Central chairman Feđa Morankić confirming the deal at the weekend.
April 20 – Kansas City has priced its World Cup transit plan – a round-trip shuttle to Arrowhead Stadium – at $15. The airport bus into downtown KC has already been announced as a free ride.
April 20 – US broadcaster Fox Sports keeps stacking its World Cup studio with European legends. Clarence Seedorf is the latest, announced as a studio analyst for the summer. He joins Thierry Henry, Zlatan Ibrahimović, Javier ‘Chicharito’ Hernández, and NBC’s Rebecca Lowe on a line-up built to impress any football fan on the planet.
April 20 – The 2026 World Cup Final will have a halftime show. Chris Martin and Coldplay will curate it. Multiple artists will perform. It will be the first in Final history.
April 16 – Tonight Malaysia’s leading club Johor Darul Ta’zim, better known as JDT, will play what chief executive Luis Garcia says is the most important game in the club’s history to date.
JDT meet Saudi Arabia’s storied Al-Hilal in Jeddah in the quarter finals of the AFC Champions League Elite. It is the first time they have reached this stage of the competition which is traditionally dominated by the Japanese and South Korean clubs in the AFC’s Eastern region before the match-ups with the monied clubs of the West region from Saudi Arabia,
April 17 – Manchester City owner and Abu Dhabi rule Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al-Nahyan faces calls for a ban from English football over links to genocide in Sudan.
April 17 – On the back of a huge rise in match ticket prices, New Jersey has had enough of eating FIFA’s costs. Governor Mikie Sherrill joined Senator Chuck Schumer this week in telling FIFA to open its wallet and pay for World Cup transit security.
April 17 – The Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF) has sold a 70% stake in Al Hilal to Kingdom Holding Company, run by Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, who was ‘imprisoned’ in the 2017 purge.