August 7 – With England’s prime minister Boris Johnson opening a national campaign against obesity, chocolate brand Cadbury has unveiled their third Premier League club partnership with Chelsea.
August 7 – Scottish clubs Hearts and Partick Thistle have each been fined £2,500 by the Scottish FA for going to court to try and stave off their respective relegations.
August 6 – An exciting new era looks in store for Roma, with Texas-based Italian-American billionaire Dan Friedkin signing a deal to purchase the famed Serie A side.
August 6 – Players taking part in the climax to the Champions League and Europa League have been warned by UEFA not to breach strict Covid-19 protocols.
August 6 – Amnesty International has written to the English Premier League proposing a new owners and directors test that covers human rights concerns and sport-washing following the collapse of the takeover of Newcastle United by a Saudi-led consortium.
August 6 – Sporting goods giant Puma and La Liga have revealed the match ball for the 2020/21 Spanish topflight season, with Accelerate, in traditional white colours, the primary ball and Adrenalina, with a more catchy design, used for ‘El Clásico’ and other marquee matches.
August 6 – The Europa League returned to action on Wednesday after a four-month hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, with Manchester United, Inter Milan, Shakhtar Donetsk and Copenhagen booking their place for the quarter-finals to be played in Germany.
August 6 – Arsenal’s head of recruitment is among 55 staff redundancies as the club became the first in the English Premier League to announce significant job losses caused by the effects of Covid-19.
August 6 – The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has released more detail of the centralised locations to complete the groups rounds of the 2020 AFC Cup, the AFC’s baby brother international club competition to its Champions League.
August 5 – The AFC may not have resumed its international competition calendar yet as its member associations focus on their national leagues, but it has moved its commercial activity forward with the announcement of Saran Media International as a new partner.
March 6 – LaLiga’s Sevilla have extended their kit supply deal with Nike for another year, taking them to the end of the 2021-22 season.
August 5 – More than 70,000 outraged fans of English sleeping giant Newcastle have signed a petition demanding the Premier League explain its handling of the proposed Saudi-led £300 million take-over deal that collapsed last week.
August 5 – Bundesliga first and second division clubs have agreed to allow a small number fans back into stadiums, potentially as early as the 2020-21 season opener on Friday September 18. But only if the authorities give the green light later this month.
August 5 – The unsavoury dispute over who was liable for Emiliano Sala’s €17 million transfer fee from Nantes to Cardiff City is set to drag on more than a year and half after the Argentine forward was tragically killed when the light aircraft carrying him to Cardiff two days after he signed crashed into the sea before he could play a single game.
August 5 – SIGA has announced the first set of speakers for the inaugural Sport Integrity Week, September 7-11.