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According to new analysis from Brand Finance, the FIFA World Cup brand is now worth $5.2 billion - a 244% increase since 2010. 
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When we try to suppress something, we often make it more visible - and Fifa is living that in real time with its sponsors.
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Folarin Balogun scored two goals on his World Cup debut, but he is the type of person President Trump is trying to ban under birthright citizenship.
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Olympique de Marseille have narrowly avoided being thrown out of European competition - with UEFA opting to dish out a €10 million fine
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Institutional private credit lenders have become a "significant part” of the football finance landscape, according to PGIM.
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June 8 – FIFA will distribute $355 million to compensate clubs that have released players to play at the World Cup. For the first time $100 million has been reserved for clubs that released players for FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers. The agreement made between FIFA and European Football Clubs (EFC) is a 70% increase compared to the 2022 World Cup. The $100 million will cover 905 qualifying matches with FIFA saying the anticipated benefit stands at about $2,360 per player, Read more …
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FairSquare wants to deliver the “biggest complaint FIFA has ever received” against Gianni Infantino to the organisation's ethics committee.
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June 3 – The Norwegian FA (NFF) has confirmed it is backing an official complaint against FIFA President Gianni Infantino over an alleged breach of political neutrality rules. The NFF’s letter backs the complaint by NGO FairSquare to the FIFA ethics committee, demanding an investigation over alleged breaches of neutrality by Infantino. Speaking at a press conference, Lise Klaveness, the chair of the NFF, confirmed that the NFF’s letter of support had been officially submitted. Read more …
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The broadcast on Apple TV, which was a partnership with MLS, saw the MLS football match between LA Galaxy and Houston Dynamo FC captured solely on 15 iPhone 17 Pro Max devices.
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Barcelona continue to top the football clubs with the most debt in 2025, with the Spanish club surpassing the €2bn mark.
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International Sports News: Two businessmen connected to Motherwell FC have been sentenced to over six years in prison for orchestrating a cocaine trafficking ring valued at over £11 million. A detailed investigation unveiled their involvement in a significant drug operation while they maintained a facade of legitimate business success.
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The US financial services firm reached an agreement with the IOC on Tuesday to join the TOP programme as the first global banking sponsor, an alliance set to cover the Los Angeles 2028 and French Alps 2030 Games.
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More than 300 sanctions have been handed to Russian athletes following the seizure of Moscow laboratory data in 2019, the World Anti-Doping Agency says.
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In the battle against copyright theft and pirate streamers, ACE and member association UEFA are claiming a first major win.
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Real Madrid has secured a definitive court victory against LaLiga. The Supreme Court has firmly upheld the nullity of the decisions made by the league’s president, Javier Tebas, which prevented the club from taking part in several key meetings on television rights during 2022.
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The broadcasting shake-up around one of the biggest annual sporting events in the world continues
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The Executive Board proposed on Wednesday assessing disciplines rather than sports and adding a strategic phase to future host selection, under reforms that must still be approved by the organisation's session in Lausanne. The IOC preparing wide-ranging reforms to the composition of the Olympic Games programme and the process for selecting future hosts. The initiative, presented by President Kirsty Coventry following the Executive Board meeting, forms part of her 'Fit for the Future' programme and will be put to a vote at the 146th IOC Session on 24-25th June.
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June 11 – Earlier this week FIFA announced that it had settled the Lassana Diarra transfer case over claims for compensation. Yesterday FIFA and football’s key stakeholders approved a new regulatory framework that they say will bring stability and certainty to the global transfer system In 2024, Diarra won a landmark case at the Court of Justice for the European for the European Union (CJEU) against FIFA and the Belgian FA in which he claimed restrictive labour practices had caused him €6 million in loss of earnings.
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Michel Platini has dropped a political bomb on his former UEFA deputy, Gianni Infantino, who rose above him to become FIFA President 10 years ago.
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Stephen Curry signs with Li-Ning to take Curry Brand to a new global scale, with basketball, golf, lifestyle and personal brand ambition
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See Forbes’ 2026 list of the world’s most valuable soccer teams, led by two Spanish rivals and featuring 11 clubs from England’s Premier League in the ranking’s top 30.
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The 2024/25 season set another new record, with the top 20 Money League clubs generating over €12 billion in revenue for the first time.
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May 19 – South American football boss Alejandro Dominguez is facing an ethics complaint at FIFA over allegedly misappropriated funds. The New York Times reports that the Conmebol President is under investigation following a complaint by a whistleblower that he received more than $5 million in payments recovered from the 2015 FIFAgate scandal which rocked world football’s governing body. Senior FIFA officials have been aware of the complaint, made to the organisation’s ethics committee, for more than a year.
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By Paul Nicholson and Samindra Kunti in Vancouver
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