New Salford team led by Salford RLFC Ltd gain approval to play in the Championship in the 2026 season; Winning consortium led by former Salford Red Devils winger Mason Caton-Brown after Salford Red Devils wound up by High Court over debts
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UCFB academic Professor Rob Wilson has co-authored a report into the finances of modern rugby, putting the game under fresh scrutiny.
Juventus have finally responded to reports of an attempted takeover of the club after cryptocurrency firm, Tether submitted a binding proposal to buy a controlling stake in the Serie A side. Tether proposed to acquire the current owner, Exor’s 65.4 per cent shareholding at a price of €2.66 per share and later intended to launch a public tender for the remaining shares at the same valuation.
Troubled former Super League club Salford Red Devils are wound up by the High Court.
Glasgow’s Hampden Park will take on a sponsor’s name for the first time in its history after the Scottish Football Association agreed a long-term deal with Barclays. The multi-million-pound deal officially rebrands the venue as ‘The National Stadium – Barclays Hampden’.
November 25 – FIFA and 2034 World Cup organiser Saudi Arabia will distribute up to $1 billion ‘in concessional loans’ in support of sports infrastructure in developing nations.
November 21 – Claiming ‘unprecedented interest’, UEFA’s joint venture commercial arm UC3 has unveiled a raft of new deals and broadcasters (preferred bidders) for its club competitions in Europe’s top five markets of UK, Germany, Spain, Italy and France.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has said the league will return to Spain in the future after Madrid’s Estadio Santiago Bernabéu hosted the Miami Dolphins’ 16-13 win over the Washington Commanders yesterday (Sunday).
November 14 – After two years of debate Major League Soccer (MLS) is changing its season dates to align with Europe’s big leagues, dropping its calendar year season in favour of a summer-to-spring schedule starting in 2027.
November 10 – FIFA have escalated tensions with FIFPro after sidelining the world players’ union from player welfare talks in Morocco. FIFPro slammed those invited as “not a meaningful global representation of independent player unions”.
November 7 – Former FIFA governance boss Miguel Maduro has accused Gianni Infantino of violating FIFA’s governance statutes by endorsing US President Donald Trump’s political programme.
November 3 – Bundesliga champions and powerhouse of German football, Bayern Munich, have announced record revenue and membership growth for the 2024/25 season, with income hitting €978.3 million, a 2.8% increase of the previous season.
The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has urgently called on the federal government and the states to improve the new sports facility funding programme so that clubs and municipalities can use the money 'efficiently and according' to need, thereby addressing a growing structural deficit. |
Five men have been sentenced to a total of 12 and half years in prison in the UK, for large-scale ticket fraud primarily involving tickets for Liverpool Football Club games.
A Paris labor court yesterday ordered Paris Saint-Germain to pay Kylian Mbappe 60 million euros (HK$549.16 million) in unpaid salary and bonuses, bringing a partial end to one of the most acrimonious disputes in French football.
December 10 – Football boss Gianni Infantino is facing a complaint to FIFA’s own ethics committee from a UK NGO over his award of the inaugural FIFA peace prize to Donald Trump and his repeated endorsements of the US President.
European football’s ‘social partners’ unite behind transfer system reform. FIFA left out in the coldDecember 2 – European professional football’s stakeholders have issued a joint resolution on the key principles of the player transfer system and its reform in response to the European Court of Justice judgement in the ‘Diarra’ case in 2024.
The new draft law for the promotion of sport in Germany has sparked tension between the federal government and German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), which has rejected the text presented by the chancellery, arguing that it sidelines the voice of organised sport and jeopardises its autonomy.
A crowd of 45,167 was in attendance on Saturday as FC Barcelona defeated Athletic Club 4-0 in its first match at the Spotify Camp Nou in two and a half years. Barcelona announced last week that it had been given the green light to make its long-awaited return to the Camp Nou.
Supporters’ groups from across the women’s game have written to the FA and Women’s Super League to outline their concerns over FIFA’s proposed Women’s Club World Cup (WCWC).
Scottish club Hibs’ majority owners the Gordon family buy back shares from US investor Bill Foley's Black Knight Football.
November 11 – The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has confirmed it has initiated disciplinary action against over 1000 players in relation to the betting scandal that has rocked professional football in Turkey.
FC Barcelona president, Joan Laporta, has said the new-look Spotify Camp Nou will be an “architectural gem that will be the best stadium in the world” as fans today (Friday) returned to the venue for the first time in over two years.
November 5 – AC Milan and Inter Milan have completed the long-awaited purchase of the San Siro Stadium and surrounding district from the Municipality of Milan for €196 million, a landmark move that clears the way for one of Europe’s most ambitious urban regeneration and stadium projects.
October 30 – Heineken’s official beer sponsorship of the Champions League that began in 1994 looks set to end after Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch InBev announced it was in exclusive negotiations for the rights to all UEFA’s men’s club competitions. |
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