By Mark Baber
May 28 – The match-fixing crisis in Greek football rumbles on with a further six players facing additional charges (making a total of 41 players, managers and referees to date), with the owner of Olympiakos being questioned and the vice-president of the Central Refereeing Committee resigning.
By Paul Nicholson in Zurich
May 28 – CONCACAF have said that they want the election for FIFA president to go ahead tomorrow, and have set up their own Special Committee to manage the affairs of the confederation after the tumultuous events of yesterday that saw their president Jeffrey Webb and Costa Rican president and newly elected FIFA executive member Eduardo Li arrested in their Zurich hotels by Swiss police.
By Samindra Kunti
May 28 – Belgian club KV Mechelen are gunning for European qualification again as they take on Charleroi in the playoffs. A refurbished stadium must revive a club that went nearly bankrupt in 2003.
By Mark Baber
May 27 – Pirelli president Marco Tronchetti Provera has delivered a warning to Inter Milan, saying that his company’s sponsorship of the team, which expires in 2016, doesn’t make sense without winning cups and without European football.
By Paul Nicholson in Zurich
May 27 – The FIFA Women’s World Cup 2015 that kicks off in Canada in 12 days time is poised to break ticket sales records and fulfill predictions that this will be the breakthrough competition that unequivocally establishes the women’s game in world football.
By Mark Baber
May 26 – Liberia have been given the go ahead by the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to play international matches on home soil following the 9 May declaration by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the country is officially “Ebola Free.”
By Alexander Krassimirov
May 26 – With rumoured investors about to step in to save Bulgaria’s CSKA Sofia from financial ruin, Croatian defender Tonci Kukoc (pictured) has stepped into the dispute attacking the Bulgarian Football Union for it failure to award his club a license to operate.
May 26 – Football has been rocked by yet another tragic incident of a young player unexpectedly losing his life after collapsing during a game, this time in Argentina.
By Mark Baber
May 26 – A month after first becoming a sponsor of Barcelona, Saudi based Fitness Time has been chosen as the official partner of FC Barcelona in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates under a partnership agreement which will see Barcelona establish seven football academies for the Fitness Time in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
May 25 – Former Uruguay international Fabian Estoyanoff, now playing in Saudi Arabia, has been banned for six matches by the Asian Football Confederation for assaulting a South Korean opponent following an AFC Champions League game earlier this month.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 25 – As the behind-the-scenes diplomacy to halt Palestine’s call for Israel to be suspended from FIFA enters its final phase, the head of the Palestine Football Association has provided FIFA with a timely example of why his controversial proposal remains on the table at the forthcoming FIFA Congress.
By Mark Baber
May 25 – The Italian Women’s FA Cup final went ahead as originally scheduled after the President of the National Amateur League, Felice Belloli (pictured), was sacked following the uproar over his sexist and homophobic comments which had sparked a player’s boycott.
By Samindra Kunti
May 25 – Brazilian top-flight clubs are moving away from a business model with TV rights as a main revenue stream, towards fan membership schemes and ticketing as now generating the bulk of the money. Major clubs Internacional and Cruzeiro highlight this evolution.
By Matt Scott
May 25 – Greece will not be thrown out of international football, clearing the way for the national team to continue qualification for Euro 2016 and, for now at least, Olympiacos to take their place in next season’s Champions League.
By Andrew Warshaw
May 22 – The Asian Football Confederation, rocked by allegations of a cover-up within its own ranks which is currently being investigated, appears to have cancelled a gathering of its national associations on the eve of next week’s FIFA congress in Zurich.