March 15 – Scotland will play Poland in a friendly on March 24 instead of their postponed World Cup play-off semi-final against Ukraine – with £10 from every ticket sold going towards UNICEF’s Ukraine emergency fund.
March 15 – Christian Eriksen has been named in Denmark’s squad for the first time since his cardiac arrest that shocked the world while he was playing against Finland at Euro 2020 last summer.
March 15 – Disgraced former Brazilian powerbroker Marco Polo del Nero has lost his final appeal, this time at Switzerland’s highest court, in his attempt to try and overturn a 20-year FIFA ban for taking bribes worth millions of dollars.
March 15 – LaLiga’s Real Betis Balompié has signed a deal with Volvo to become one of the club’s main sponsors.
March 14 – English clubs have racked up a combined negative international transfer trade balance of -€4.35 billion since 2017.
March 14 – The Ballon d’Or award given to the world’s best male and female footballer will now be judged on performances over the main European season rather than an entire calendar year.
March 14 – FIFA are back in discussion with Amnesty International over the conditions for migrant workers in Qatar in connection with the World Cup. This time the discussion is not focussed on construction workers by on those in the service and hospitality sector.
March 14 – England’s Wolverhampton Wanderers and Portugal’s FC Porto have broken free of the shackles of UEFA’s financial fair play scrutiny and have exited the settlement regimes they were under.
March 14 – Former politician Bernd Neuendorf was sworn in on Friday as the new president of the embattled German Football Association in what the entire hierarchy will hope is a new beginning after years of off-the-field scandal.
March 13 – Private equity firm 777 Partners have acquired storied Belgian club Standard Liege, further expanding its portfolio following the takeover of Rio giants Vasco da Gama earlier this month.
March 13 – Chelsea sleeve sponsor Hyundai have joined Three in suspending their sponsorship of the club with immediate effect.
March 13 – Everton, majority owned by British Iranian Farhad Moshiri, a close associate of sanctioned Russian oligarch Alisher Usmanov, has pledged £250,000 to the Disaster Emergency Committee’s Ukraine Humanitarian Appeal.
March 11 – UEFA have been placed in the awkward position of investigating one of their own inner circle after opening disciplinary proceedings against Paris St-Germain president Nasser Al-Khelaifi.
March 11 – Chelsea supporters have been urged to stop chanting the name of the club’s Russian oligarch owner Roman Abramovich who has been sanctioned by the UK government as part of its response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
March 11 – Olympique Lyonnais have responded to news that Pathé and IDG are looking to sell their near 20% stakes in the club, saying that the club is “actively working to strengthen its financial structure” and that it will continue its development work both on and off the field with the build of the new arena.