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Brazilian prosecutors are reportedly suing FIFA for the reimbursement of public funds spent on temporary infrastructure in host stadia for the 2014 World Cup.
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October 6 – Police occupied the headquarters of the Djibouti Football Federation (FDF) on Monday, ordering federation president Souleiman Hassan Waberi (pictured), who also sits on the FIFA Council, and is a staunch supporter of embattled FIFA president Gianni Infantino. While Waberi’s star has risen within FIFA as an Infantino acolyte, at home he has been under growing pressure from clubs who want him removed from office. Police first entered the FA headquarters on Sunday before returning to occupy the bulding on Monday after a group of club presidents called an extraordinary general assembly aimed at removing Waberi and his executive committee.
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For the first time in 2027, every combined WTA 1000 event will award equal prize money, building on the path forged by the Original 9, including Billie Jean King; you can watch the WTA/ATP China Open and ATP 1000 Shanghai Masters live on Sky Sports
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September 30 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin has slammed FIFA boss Gianni Infantino, attacking the football supremo over the attempted World Cup sell-off, the Trump Peace Prize and the Balogun red card scandal. In a speech addressing European Football Clubs General Assembly in Copenhagen, Ceferin (pictured) reached for the story by Hans Christian Andersen to criticise Infantino, without naming him by name. “The emperor is naked,” said Ceferin. “Perhaps the moral story of this is convenient words cannot change uncomfortable realities. Read more …
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The NFL’s first match held at the Maracanã stadium in Rio de Janeiro has broken the attendance record for a sporting event in Brazil this year with a crowd of 72,792.
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Democratic members of the US House Judiciary Committee have accused FIFA President Gianni Infantino of a "woefully inadequate" level of co-operation toward a probe into his relationship with Donald Trump.
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FIFPRO and FIFPRO Europe have demanded an overhaul of FIFA’s governance so that “no single office can act unilaterally again a repeat."
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Türkiye's big four carry 85 billion lira of debt and spent through it anyway. This is not the new Saudi, and Fabinho leaving Riyadh for Trabzonspor explains why.
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September 2 – The Danish, Finnish, and Swedish Football Associations have written to EU commissioner for youth, culture and sport Glenn Micallef, expressing “serious concern” over FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s attempt to sell off the World Cup rights to a private equity funded business. They call “a broader European conversation about the future governance of international football”. In their letter they “propose closer coordination between European football and European policymakers,” saying that at the heart of their concerns is the protection of the European sports model. Read more …
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Golf club manufacturer Callaway ends its partnership with content creator Good Good with immediate effect and donates $1m to women's charity after promoting advert that shows a woman being pushed over.
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UEFA nations will compete in the upcoming U20 Women’s World Cup in Poland that kicks off September 5, and the U17 Men’s World Cup in Qatar.
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Premier League chief executive Richard Masters has criticised Fifa president Gianni Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan, saying the organisation has "pressed the self-destruct button" by delivering "a self-inflicted wound".
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Senior Fifa figure Kevin Lamour is sacked football's world governing body three weeks after criticising its president Gianni Infantino.
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August 14 – Two Caribbean federations have broken from the pack and ‘reaffirmed’ their support for beleaguered FIFA president Gianni Infantino who has plunged the world governing body into its biggest constitutional crisis ever over his (withdrawn) proposal to sell off all World Cup commercial rights. The Grenada and St Kitts and Nevis FAs have both made remarkably similar statements offering their support. Neither statement is signed though it is believed that they were both issued following contact from FIFA’s member association division.
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October 5 – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has warned the UK government that it could cancel major investment into the country following the guilty verdict against Manchester City over financial breaches of the Premier League rules. Last week, the Premier League confirmed that the club had broken the financial rules between 2009 and 2018, but according to Bloomberg and the Daily Telegraph, the UAE have said the actions by the Premier League would “have an influence on the bilateral state relationship”.
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Inter Miami and Argentina captain Lionel Messi has turned to a new challenge after completing the acquisition of Spanish second-division club CD Eldense.
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September 29 – Europe’s clubs will receive half of the $250 million solidarity World Club Cup money. In a longstanding of saga, EFC and FIFA have agreed on allocating half of the solidarity money that FIFA promised before the 2025 Club World Cup to non-participant clubs to Europe and half to the rest of the world. World football’s governing body did so to assuage fears that the competition would further distort competitive balance. But clubs around the old continent had grown increasingly frustrated and impatient.
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FIFA September 24 – After weeks of hiding and refusal to face his member associations or governing council members, FIFA president Gianni Infantino has found his jet legs again. This weekend he is visiting Caribbean islands on the campaign trial as he desperately tries to muster support.
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September 17 – English FA chair Debbie Hewitt, a FIFA vice-president, has added her voice to the calls for more transparency from FIFA president Gianni Infantino regarding the planned sell-off of FIFA’s commercial rights into a private equity backed new business, FIFA Football Enterprise (FFE). Hewitt has written to FIFA president Gianni Infantino demanding FIFA release the FIFA Forward Enterprise (FFE) documents before the world federation’s next Council meeting.
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MLS clubs spent a record $370 million on transfer fees in 2026, while generating an all-time high $218 million from player sales.
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Players who featured at this summer’s FIFA World Cup accounted for more than $3.3 billion in transfer fees during a record-breaking window.
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Celtic and Rangers are ordered to play their next home Scottish Cup ties behind closed doors after fan disorder last season.
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Uefa is pursuing criminal proceedings against Fifa president Gianni Infantino over the scrapped plan to sell off stakes in the World Cup.
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August 21 – UEFA and Concacaf are reportedly looking at turning their open opposition to Gianni Infantino into something far more tangible – a new 96-team Nations League that would sit largely outside FIFA’s competitive structure. According to the Guardian, the two confederations have reportedly begun discussions over combining their existing Nations League competitions from as early as 2028, creating a cross-Atlantic tournament involving every member association in Europe, North and Central America and the Caribbean.
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Rights group FairSquare has demanded that FIFA prevent the organisation’s boss Gianni Infantino from running for the presidency again. In a letter to FIFA’s Governance, Audit and Compliance Committee, FairSquare argued that Infantino cannot run again under the world governing body’s own statutes, which limit the presidency to three terms in article 33.
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The future of Cliftonville is now settled as members have voted in favour of a takeover by the Toronto Investment Group [TIG] following a long-running saga.
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Brazil will attempt to sue FIFA, the world's governing body for soccer, for using Brazil's public funds to help temporarily renovtate stadiums that will be used for the World Cup. Conflict will always arise in business and this is no different, Brazil feels cheated out of money that could be used for other things while FIFA says that paying for the complimentary structures are the responsibility of the building owners. This is bad press especially with the games ariving this next summer, but at the same time you don't want outdated and possibly dangerous strcutures holding up the massive amounts of people there where a possible tragedy could happen.