March 9 – The wait goes on for the most star-studded side in Europe. Paris St Germain’s hopes of lifting the Champions League for the first time are over for another season as they crashed out of the competition in the last 16 with a 2-0 defeat at Bayern Munich (3-0 on aggregate).
March 9 – An Indonesian court has handed prison sentences to two match officials after finding them guilty of negligence over one of the world’s deadliest stadium disasters.
March 9 – Starlizard Integrity Services (SIS) – match-fixing monitoring specialists and the integrity division of London-based sports betting consultancy Starlizard – has launched its new online match-fixing alert system Komodo.
March 9 – UEFA has launched ticket sales for the general public for the 2023 UEFA Nations League Finals in the Netherlands. Available on UEFA.com, the sales window will run until March 16.
March 9 – Botev Plovdiv will open its new Hristo Botev Stadium on April 29 with the derby game against Levski. The club said the long awaited renovation will see the stadium open with fully covered stands and 18,500 seats.
March 9 – High-flying Marseille went to court Wednesday in a dispute with English tier-two Watford over the 2020 signing of Senegal midfielder Pape Gueye.
By David Owen
March 8 – Leicester City, the Midlands club enduring what by their recent standards is an undistinguished season in the lower reaches of the Premier League, have reported a near tripling of pre-tax losses for the year to end-May 2022.
March 8 – A delegation from the European Club Association (ECA) yesterday met with members of the European Parliament Sports Group in Brussels.
March 8 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has embraced International Women’s Day with a series of activities co-ordinated across its member associations.
March 8 – Norwegian FA president Lisa Klaveness is stepping up her efforts to break into male-dominated territory next month by saying her candidacy should be treated on merit.
March 8 – Prosecutors are poised to charge Barcelona over the club’s alleged payments to a company that belonged to the former the vice president of Spain’s refereeing committee, according to Spanish media.
March 8 – Could this be the game that saved beleaguered Chelsea manager Graham Potter’s job?
March 7 – It was heartbreak for Vietnam as they went from top of their group after two matches at the AFC U20 Asian Cup to third place after losing to Iran, missing out on qualification to the knockout rounds on goal difference.
March 8 – LaLiga’s Real Betis Balompié has agreed a deal with FX payments provider Corpay Cross-Border to become the club’s first team training kit sponsor as well as the official FX payments provider.
March 8 – The National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL) in the US and National Women’s Soccer League Players Association (NWSLPA) have agreed a deal with EA Sports that will see the teams and player images integrated into EA’s FIFA 23 video game.