April 9 – AC Milan, Internazionale Milano and Juventus will play a series of pre-season friendlies in August at Perth Stadium after plans to stage a Serie A match in the Australian city earlier in the season were scrapped.
April 9 – FIFA has set out plans to take the 2026 World Cup well beyond its host cities in Canada, unveiling a nationwide fan engagement programme designed to reach the majority of the population and extend the tournament’s commercial and cultural footprint.
April 9 – The issue of not enough homegrown players has been highlighted by the Mayor of Stara Zagora Zhivko Todorov, who voiced his strong disapproval over local club Beroe’s heavy reliance on foreign players. Todorov’s comments came after Beroe faced CSKA without a single Bulgarian player in the starting XI.
April 9 – Trading card platform Topps, under the Fanatics umbrella, is lining up a major land-grab in international football, targeting future card and sticker rights for Brazil, England, Germany and Italy, in direct competition to the granddaddy of the business, Panini.
April 9 – Major League Soccer (MLS) has signed a multi-year deal with Vision Insights, bringing its Decoder Media platform into the fold to track exactly how much brand exposure sponsors are getting, and what it’s actually worth.
April 9 – The Sports Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) has released its report on gender representation in international sports governance, covering the 30 federations within the Association of Summer Olympic International Federations (ASOIF).
April 8 – Two second half goals for Tigres UANL at the Estadio Universitario in Nuevo León took the sting out of Seattle Sounders challenge and gave the Mexicans a significant advantage going into the second leg of their Concacaf Champions Cup quarter final series.
April 8 – Toluca were magnificent. This was a performance of genuine quality from the Mexican side, disciplined in the first half, ruthless on the counter, and composed enough to absorb a Galaxy comeback that briefly threatened to change the night.
April 9 – Going into the quarter final round Concacaf Champions Cup holders Cruz Azul had reclaimed the top spot in the latest Concacaf Club Rankings (CCR).
April 8 – World players’ union Fifpro and African Leagues have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to enhance African football.
April 8 – A new charitable foundation aimed at unlocking the £2.35 billion frozen from Roman Abramovich’s sale of Chelsea FC has formally submitted its application to the UK Charity Commission.
April 8 – FOX Latin America and Concacaf have renewed their broadcast partnership for four years, keeping FOX as the home of Concacaf men’s club football in Mexico through 2030.
April 8 – FIFA has opened disciplinary proceedings against the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) in the wake of “Islamophobic and xenophobic” chanting during Spain’s friendly against Egypt in March’s international break.
April 8 – The UEFA Champions League quarter-final action follows on from Tuesday night’s blockbuster clash between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, with two more heavy weight matchups.
