April 28 – Fluminense and Flamengo have successfully defended their right to manage the Maracanã Stadium, as a Rio court dismissed Vasco da Gama’s request for the state government to open up bids for provisional management of the stadium.
April 28 – Barcelona reached its third straight Women’s Champions League final after a 1-1 draw with Chelsea on Thursday in front of more than 72,000 fans at Camp Nou Stadium.
April 28 – USL president Jake Edwards (pictured) is leaving the organisation after 10-years with the US league body, eight as president. He is being replaced with two internal promotions. Jeremy Alumbaugh becomes USL Championship President and Lee O’Neill takes over as USL League One President.
April 27 – Players will “rightly be angry” about UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin proposing a salary cap in European football, according to the head of England’s Professional Footballers’ Association.
April 27 – An East African bid comprising Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda is vying against Algeria, Botswana, and Egypt to host the 2027 Africa Cup of Nations.
April 27 – Cuca has left Corinthians as head coach following fan protests over his involvement in a rape case in the ‘80s.
April 27 – It is all to play for next week in the Concacaf Nations League semi-finals with Tigres taking a slender one goal lead to take into the second leg of their tie at Club León, while Philadelphia Union and LAFC are all square going into the Los Angeles return match.
April 26 – Concacaf has committed to setting up its first international competition for women’s clubs with a start date in 2024.
April 26 – UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin wants a salary cap to be introduced across European football to restore competitive balance and says clubs agree with the idea.
April 26 – FIFA has appointed a normalisation committee to oversee the daily affairs and elections of the Congo DR Football Association (FECOFA).
April 26 – Zambian football is to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the plane crash that wiped out almost of all the national team, at the time viewed as the country’s golden generation of players.
April 26 – Matt Crocker has been appointed sporting director of the US Soccer Federation, leaving relegation-threatened English Premier League Southampton to take over from Earnie Stewart.
April 26 – While Haiti’s women’s national team will compete at the World Cup in Australia/New Zealand this summer and the men’s team will play at the 2023 Gold Cup in the US, Haitian clubs will not compete in Concacaf’s club competitions in the 2023/24 season.
April 26 – Former Canadian men’s national team captain Jason deVos (pictured) has been named interim general secretary of Canada Soccer, the governing body announced on Tuesday.
April 25 – A commercial court in Madrid has provisionally suspended the VAR tender for LaLiga that was being run by the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF).