NRG Stadium sold out for Gold Cup final
July 6 – Concacaf has announced that today’s 2025 Gold Cup Final at NRG Stadium, Houston, between the United States and Mexico, is sold out.
Women's Euro 2025
Swiss keep knockout hopes alive as Iceland exit
Switzerland 2 Iceland 0
July 6 – Switzerland got their Euro 2025 campaign back on track with a 2-0 victory against Iceland, the first team to be eliminated from the tournament.
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Super League pact collapses as English clubs crumble under pressure
By Andrew Warshaw
April 21 – It took months of secret behind the scenes negotiations to put together but disintegrated just 48 hours after its launch.
Uefa reports €74 million deficit for covid-hit 2019-20 financial year
By David Owen
April 21 – The European football body UEFA has posted a deficit of €73.9 million for the covid-hit 2019-20 financial year.
Taxi for Woodward: Man Utd boss hastens Old Trafford exit
April 21 – Manchester United executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward (pictured) has become the first high-profile victim of the European Super League’s dramatic collapse on Tuesday evening. He resigned and will step down from his role at the end of 2021.
UEFA elections: Martin takes seat at FIFA’s top table, Christillin keeps hers
April 21- Irish FA president David Martin (pictured) has been elected as a FIFA vice-president after winning the vote for the position reserved for the four British associations.
Olympic draw offers revenge opportunities for US women and Brazilian men
April 21 – The draw for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics this summer has thrown up group clashes between Brazil and Germany in the men’s tournament while the USA women will get the chance for revenge against Sweden who knocked them out of the 2016 tournament in Rio.
Perez ‘football is dying’ interview debunked as lies by LaLiga
April 21 – Although the prospect of a breakaway Super League is starting to recede into the distance – for the moment – the wounds are deep and Spain’s LaLiga is not letting some of the statement’s made by Real Madrid’s president Florentino Perez go unanswered.
AFC expands its footprint in Europe with Fanseat platform deal
April 21 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has partnered with PPV and subscription-based digital broadcast platform Fanseat in eight European territories.
Ceferin praises UEFA’s covid solidarity, declares war on ‘conspirators’ and thanks Tottenham Trev
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Twenty-four hours after lambasting organisers of the European Super League, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin struck a still-forceful but more philosophical tone today as he summed up his annus horribilis marked by the Covid-19 pandemic that sent football behind closed doors and the creation of the breakaway grouping UEFA had tried desperately to stave off.
Infantino warns Super League clubs they will have to ‘live with the consequences’
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Making his first public comment on the creation of the European Super League, FIFA president Gianni Infantino today urged those involved to think again or “live with the consequences.”
Real Madrid’s Perez claims Super League will save football and fans want it
By Andrew Warshaw
April 20 – Faced with stinging criticism across the Continent from fans, ex-players, politicians, commentators and all the leading football stakeholders, the man driving the new European Super League has hit back by insisting the project was devised to save the game rather than destroy it.
Politicians, fans, clubs and leagues launch tsunami of Super League criticism
By Samindra Kunti
April 20 – British PM Boris Johnson and his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron have led the political clamour against the breakaway Super League by promising their governments will support attempts to halt such a competition as the backlash against the 12 breakaway clubs reached a new crescendo.
Rummenige returns to lead ECA after Agnelli’s spectacular exit
April 20 – Bayern Munich’s Karl-Heinz Rummenigge has replaced Andrea Agnelli on an interim basis as the president of the European Club Association (ECA) after the Juventus owner resigned following the announcement of the new Super League plans that included his club but left most other ECA member out in the cold.
UEFA pushes ahead with Champions League revamp
April 20 – UEFA’s reformatted Champions League will go ahead as planned starting with the 2024/25 season. With temperatures high over the new Super League breakaway that could begin as early as this August, UEFA made it clear there would be no stopping the new formats for its club competitions after two years of consultation.
PSV Eindhoven look for €50m to keep long term pressure on Ajax
April 20 – Dutch giants PSV Eindhoven are looking to raise €50 million in the coming months with billionaire Robert van der Wallen, a member of the supervisory board, driving the capital raise.
UEFA pushes back Euros hosting deadlines for Munich, Bilbao and Dublin
April 20 – UEFA have postponed until Friday a final decision over whether they are dropping any host cities for this year’s delayed Euro 2020, with Munich, Bilbao and Dublin still in danger of being axed if they can’t guarantee a limited number of spectators.