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![]() September 15 – UEFA’s European Club Talent and Competition Landscape report, released this morning, has underlined two of the defining features of modern European football: the growing effort to protect players from overload and the relentless rise in transfer spending.
![]() September 3 – With the transfer window shut in most of the game’s major markets, CIES Football Observatory in its latest analysis reports clubs worldwide have invested about €14.2 billion in players in 2025, 14% more than the previous record set in 2023.
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![]() Playing regular-season European football games outside Europe would be a ‘betrayal’ of the sport’s identity and community roots, according to the EU Commissioner Glenn Micallef.
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![]() July 8 – FIFA has opened an office at Trump Tower in New York City, deepening its already close ties with the much-criticised US administration.
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![]() September 16 – FIFA has launched a public access digital database covering all football-related case from the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) and the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT), from 2002 to the present.
![]() September 4 – More data from the record breaking summer transfer window is emerging with FIFA releasing top line data culled from its Transfer Match System that logs, tracks and clears all international player movement.
![]() September 3 – German Chancellor Frederich Merz has backed the 50+1 club ownership rule that remains a cornerstone of the country’s football industry, but is increasingly under pressure.
![]() Research by Play the Game reveals a surge in betting deals, with 1737confirmed partnerships between betting companies, cricket teams, tournaments, and players in the last two decades.
![]() European soccer teams fighting for players are igniting a debt market using the players’ transfer fees as collateral.
![]() August 13 – The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has launched a special campaign targeting Romania’s “most loyal supporters” and man’s best friend – dogs.
![]() August 7 – Football’s most wanted, former Concacaf president and FIFA vice-president Jack Warner, looks to have once again evaded the possibility of extradition to the USA on 29 charges of wire fraud, racketeering, money laundering, and bribery.
![]() July 28 – FIFA has returned fire in its war against players’ union FIFPro criticising what it says is the “increasingly divisive and contradictory tone adopted by FIFPRO leadership”. While calling for a return to the negotiating table, the FIFA statement will likely only escalate the conflict – perhaps the statement’s only objective as FIFA bids to break the unions.
![]() July 17 – UEFA has delivered its verdict on Montenegrin club FK Arsenal Tivat, and it is brutal. Banned from European competition for ten years. Half a million euros in fines. Life bans for key figures.
![]() July 10 – Olympique Lyonnais have pulled off the great escape, with French football’s financial watchdogs at the DNCG reversing their previous decision to relegate the historic Ligue 1 club.
![]() Spending outpaces gains from transfers and marketing as debt returns to 2020 levels |