August 30 – All-time leading World Cup scorer Miroslav Klose will receive the 2023 UEFA President Award which will be presented at the Champions League group stage draw tomorrow at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco.
August 30 – Liverpool’s influential Dutch defender Virgil van Dijk has been charged by the English Football Association for behaving in an “improper manner” following his red card during their 2-1 Premier League win at Newcastle United on Sunday.
August 30 – LaLiga is expanding its elite residential academy concept into international markets with the T3N Sport & Investment Group, and a €300 million 5-year spend focused on “strategic markets such as the US, Mexico, Japan, and the Middle East.”
August 30 – Premier League Sheffield United have signed home technology business Gtech as their sleeve sponsor in an initial one-year deal.
August 30 – The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has signed a three-year of a new sponsorship deal with Poland’s Citronex group’s Yellow brand.
August 30 – Championship side Norwich City, now in their second season of challenging for a return to the Premier League, have agreed a travel partnership with UD Las Palmas and Gran Canaria island.
August 29 – The Olympic men’s qualifier between New Zealand and Papua New Guinea was derailed after the island nation failed to travel to Auckland for the opening match of the regional tournament in against the hosts at the Mt Smart Stadium.
August 29 – Former Juventus president Andrea Agnelli, who once ran Europe’s most influential grouping of elite clubs, has had one of his bans from the game reduced from 16 to 10 months after appealing to the Italian FA.
August 29 – Saudi Arabia will host the upcoming TotalEnergies CAF Super Cup, scheduled for September 15, in the city of Taif at the 58,000 capacity King Fahd Stadium, home of Saudi Pro League side Al-Hilal.
August 29 – France U-21 manager Thierry Henry has reiterated the importance of the country’s youth teams, ahead of next year’s Olympic Games on home soil, to maintaining the senior side at the top of the world’s elite nations.
By Andrew Warshaw
August 28 – One week after the most infamous kiss in football history during the Women’s World Cup awards ceremony, the reputation of Spanish FA president Luis Rubiales reputation is in tatters after FIFA temporarily banned him from the game.
August 28 – Canada Soccer’s men’s head coach, John Herdman, has quit to take up the post vacated by Bob Bradley at MLS team Toronto FC.
August 28 – In a controversial new sponsorship deal, German giants Bayern Munich have partnered with Visit Rwanda, sparking criticism that the club are being used to bolster the reputation of Rwanda’s political leadership.
August 29 – Concacaf has released the dates for the W Gold Cup qualifiers to be played in September, October and November and will see three teams go directly into the inaugural edition of the 12-team competition to be played February 17 – March 10, 2024 in the US.
August 28 – Turkey’s Trabzonspor have renewed their sponsorship agreement with freight company Aras Kargo for the 2023/2024 season.