April 25 – A host of football legends and stellar names in management and coaching came together for the newly created UEFA Football Board on Monday, set up to discuss the sport’s most pressing topics.
April 25 – Four contenders are competing to host the 2027 Women’s World Cup, days after the joint United States-Mexico entered the race.
April 25 – Germany are set to turn their 1,000th international match in June into a charity fixture against Ukraine.
By Andrew Warshaw
April 25 – First the manager out the door, then the managing director of football, now the interim coach – all in the space of a few disastrous weeks.
April 25 – Olympiacos ran riot after the club’s 3-1 derby loss to AEK Athens that ended Olympiacos’ chances of winning the Greek Super League.
April 25 – Dutch club AZ Alkmaar stunned Croatia’s Hadjuk Split with a 5-0 win in the UEFA Youth League final in Geneva, sending the travelling Croatian support of nearly 10,000 fans home disappointed.
April 25 – The semi-finals of the 2023 Scotiabank Concacaf Champions League kick soff tonight with an all-Mexican clash between Tigres and Club Leon to the Estadio Universitario in San Nicolas de los Garza, Mexico.
April 25 – Canadian Soccer Business (CSB) has taken over the ownership and operation of Canadian Premier League (CPL) side York United from the Baldassarra family, with the league expected to announce new investors in the coming weeks.
April 25 – The European Club Association (ECA) and data analytics specialist LCP have launched the ECA Fixture Hub, an online platform for football friendly fixtures coordination across Europe.
April 24 – The umbrella body that represents Europe’s domestic leagues has urged UEFA to substantially increase the amount of money it gives clubs that do not qualify for its three club competitions.
April 24 – Women were reportedly barred from attending the Tehran derby between Esteghlal and Persepolis in the Iranian top flight.
Sometimes, it looks like he can’t do anything right, doesn’t it? He blabbers about football solving the refugee crisis in the Mediterranean, he lectures about his being gay today, his being a migrant worker yesterday, and quite generally to be utterly misunderstood – every day.
April 24 – The Saint Kitts and Nevis FA will host the fifth edition of the 16-team Concacaf Caribbean Shield which will be played between August 3-13, 2023.
April 24 – England captain Leah Williamson will miss the women’s World Cup this summer after suffering a ruptured anterior cruciate ligament in a Women’s Super League match against Manchester United.
April 24 – The South African FA has said it no longer wants to hold tournaments organised by its regional confederation, the Council of Southern Africa Football Associations (Cosafa), saying that the events drain government resources and harm the South African Football Association’s (SAFA) access to funding.