February 6 – US-born Aaliyah Farmer who has Mexican heritage has quit Tigres UANL after just one season in Liga MX Femenil and joined Chicago Stars after ‘harassment’ from home fans pushed her to the point where the player felt unsafe.
February 6 – Adidas has unveiled the official match ball for the 2026 UEFA Women’s Champions League final ahead of the competition’s showpiece event in Oslo next May.
February 6 – Konami’s decision to bring eFootball to Nintendo’s next-generation console is a quietly significant moment for football gaming.
February 6 – Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) has acquired non-exclusive Canadian broadcast rights to the National Women’s Soccer League, for its OneSoccer TV channel.
February 6 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has signed a strategic partnership agreement with ‘Sport Network’, who represent Danish sporting goods brand Select in Bulgaria.
February 6 – Singapore’s Mediacorp has decided to broadcast all matches from the 2026 World Cup.
February 5 – Avery Dennison has officially pushed into the Bundesliga market, announcing an exclusive partnership with Mainz 05 that ‘puts personalised kit front and centre of the matchday experience’
February 5 – As the UEFA Champions League enters its knockout rounds, the latest study from the CIES Football Observatory has offered a timely snapshot of which clubs are best equipped to dominate matches in possession.
February 5 – The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) has formally submitted a preliminary bid to stage the 2029 Women’s Champions League final at Dublin’s Aviva Stadium.
February 5 – The Indian Super League (ISL) finally has a broadcaster with Fancode picking up the rights for the 2025-26 season.
February 5 – Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called out the current political situation in the United States, one of three co-hosts of the 2026 World Cup, arguing that the ‘world won’t be welcome’ at the tournament.
February 5 – The English Premier League is introducing a new league-wide inclusion programme this weekend, moving on from its decade-long Rainbow Laces partnership with equality charity Stonewall and signalling a subtle change in how it presents its support for LGBTQ+ inclusion.
February 5 – Concacaf president Victor Montagliani, speaking at his confederation’s congress in Managua, Nicaragua, at the weekend, struck both a reflective note on the world’s fragile politics and a powerful endorsement of his own confederation’s progression to the centre of the football world with the World Cup in their region this summer.
February 5 – The Bulgarian Super Cup celebrations were overshadowed by a disturbing wave of racism directed at Ludogorets forward Bernard Tekpetey following the match against Levski Sofia at the Vasil Levski National Stadium. Ludogorets won the final against Levski with the only goal, scored by Bernard Tekpetey.
February 5 – Royal Caribbean has long been part of Miami’s DNA for decades, so it comes as no surprise that a partnership with the FIFA World Cup 2026 Miami Host Committee has been cemented.