February 8 – TEAM Marketing has retained the rights to the UEFA men’s Champions League for the rights cycle 2024-27, but has ceded media sales rights to Relevent Sports Group in the US.
By Paul Nicholson
February 7 – The combined British and Irish bid to host the World Cup in 2030 has been officially shelved with the five FAs instead saying they will focus on a bid to host the Euro 2028 championships.
By Samindra Kunti
February 7 – On the sidelines of the Africa Cup of Nations, the Confederation of African Football (CAF) convened a meeting with FA presidents, club chairmen and FIFA president Gianni Infantino to discuss plans for the creation of an African Super League, but the governing body again was able to give little detail on the project.
By Samindra Kunti
February 7 – Senegal won their first-ever Africa Cup of Nations despite Sadio Mane missing a penalty in the first minutes of the final. He later atoned for the miss delivering the winning spot-kick in a 4-2 shootout victory to wrap up a tournament that was overshadowed by the loss of eights lives at the last-16 tie involving hosts Cameroon.
February 7 – West Ham and Jamaica’s Michail Antonio will face off against Chelsea’s Christian Pulisic (US) and Bayern Munich’s Alfonso Davies (Canada), in the vote for the Concacaf player of the year.
February 7 – Marc Overmars has quit Ajax as sporting director over inappropriate messages, the Amsterdam club announced on Sunday.
February 7 – The AFC has issued a request for proposals (RFP) for AFC the Asian Cup China 2023 Licensing & Merchandising Programme.
February 7 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) has overturned FIFA’s one-year ban of former Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Issa Hayatou.
February 4 – Egypt eliminated hosts Cameroon from the Africa Cup of Nations with Egyptian goalkeeper Gabaski saving two penalties in the spot-kick shootout to set up a final against Senegal.
By Paul Nicholson
February 4 – UEFA’s annual club licensing report just released, is it most impressive yet, leaving almost no stone unturned in its review and overview of the health of the club game in Europe.
February 4 – Ukraine and Russia play each other (today) in a historic futsal semi-final at the European championship against a backdrop of heightened political tension over the threat of renewed conflict between the nations.
February 4 – Concacaf will kick off their 2022/23 Concacaf Nations League, its second edition, in June 2022 with the finals scheduled for the summer of 2023.
February 3 – Brazilian clubs have received an offer of 4.2 billion reias ($800 million) from an unnamed investor to form a breakaway league that would not be under the management of the Brazilian FA (CBF).
February 3 – The European Commission has registered a European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) entitled ‘Win It On The Pitch’, which, if it gains enough public support, will force the EC to consider the proposal aimed at protecting the European sports model.
February 3 – Mexico returned to winning World Cup qualification ways with a crucial 1-0 win over their nearest rival Panama for an automatic spot at Qatar 2022.