June 15 – USA versus Mexico rarely disappoints. In a feisty, chaotic, intense, end-to-end battle with four sendings off and tempers unravelling wherever you looked, the US walked away 3-0 winners.
June 15 – Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia have announced that nearly BGN 600,000 (€300,000) has been raised from the sale of shares.
June 15 – Concacaf is opening the North American commercial door to FIFA in an agreement to co-operate on the joint sales of the 2026 World Cup and Concacaf’s major national team events, that will include two Gold Cups.
June 15 – UEFA has announced insurance giant ERGO as the second of its official national partners for Euro 2024.
June 15 – With UEFA and Concacaf focus on their Nations League finals that kick off this week, Asian activity is centred on the AFC U17 Asian Cup Thailand 2023 that kicks off today.
This will be 19th edition of the tournament and the first since its rebrand from the AFC U16 Championship in 2016.
June 15 – With FIFA having finally managed to nail down a pan-European broadcast agreement with the EBU for the Women’s World Cup that starts next month, UEFA has gone to market with its Women’s EURO 2025 media rights across 45 European territories.
By Paul Nicholson in Las Vegas
June 15 – The showpiece semi-final between USA and Mexico in recent years would have been the final.
June 15 – Croatia’s Zlatko Dalic singled out Luka Modric after his man-of-the-match performance in a 4-2 extra-time victory against the Netherlands in the Nations League.
June 15 – Netherlands manager Ronald Koeman has said that his side will need to “take steps” following their 4-2 defeat against Croatia.
June 15 – Expect fireworks as Panama and Canada open the Nations League finals in Las Vegas tonight.
June 14 – Everton have reacted to another dismal season by announcing that CEO Denise Barrett-Baxendale and fellow directors Grant Ingles and Graeme Sharp a goalscoring club hero in the 1980s – have all left.
June 14 – It’s the 17th MoU the Saudi Arabian Football Association (SAFF) have signed. The relationship with the Mauritanian Football Federation (FFRIM) will focus on traditional areas of cooperation, including but not limited to coach education, training for referees and support for the women’s game.
June 14 – Real Madrid have completed the signing of 19-year-old England midfielder Jude Bellingham from Borussia Dortmund on a six-year deal.
June 14 – Germany marked its 1,000th international fixture by snatching a 3-3 draw against Ukraine with a last-gasp penalty in what was arranged as a special charity match in Bremen.
By Samindra Kunti in Rotterdam
June 14 – Croatia never do things the easy way, but they do enough and did so again to stun the Dutch with a 4-2 extra time win.