June 9 – Unconfirmed reports suggest that Ecuador is on the verge of being kicked out of this year’s World Cup finals for fielding an ineligible player during qualifying.
By Paul Nicholson
June 8 – Jamaica’s mens team salvaged the best of a bitter situation last night with a 3-1 win over Suriname to go top of their group in League 1 of the Concacaf Nations League.
June 8 – Canada’s players will play against Curacao on Thursday despite a bitter pay dispute that has rocked the country’s preparations for the World Cup in Qatar, their first appearance in the finals for 36 years.
June 8 – African trio Morocco, Nigeria and Tanzania have completed the lineup for the U17 Women’s World Cup in India.
June 8 – Australia’s World Cup hopes remain alive after labouring to a 2-1 victory against the United Arab Emirates to set up a final, sudden-death playoff with Peru next Monday.
June 8 – A statue of Zinedine Zidane’s infamous 2006 World Cup headbutt on Marco Materazzi is to be put back on display by Qatar authorities nine years after it was removed following a public backlash.
June 8 – FIFA has expanded its FIFA+ streaming platform with the addition of Japanese, Korean, Italian and Bahasa languages.
June 8 – Ajax shirt sponsor Ziggo, who at the end of last year extended its sponsorship for a further two years, have expanded the deal to include its GigaNet fibre-optic cable network as the back-of-shirt sponsor.
June 7 – Turkmenistan came from two goals down to force a 2-2 draw against Qatar in Group A of the AFC U23 Asian Cup Uzbekistan 2022 and book a quarter-final place with group winners Uzbekistan.
By Andrew Warshaw
June 7 – After an investigation lasting seven years, Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, once the two most powerful officials in world football, go on trial in Switzerland on Wednesday facing fraud, embezzlement and other corruption charges in a criminal case that has gripped world football politics.
June 7 – Canada men’s national team have resumed training but say “questions have yet to be answered” after going on strike over World Cup prize money on Sunday, accusing Canada Soccer of “disrespect”.
June 7 – Cryptocurrency might have crashed but it hasn’t stopped Portuguese giant Benfica from becoming the country’s first club to launch a Fan Token on the blockchain-powered Socios.com platform.
June 7 – Kylian Mbappe has returned to the top of a ranking of the world’s most valuable players by transfer value with a price tag of £206 million.
June 7 – Premier League Wolverhampton Wanderers have agreed a one-year shirt sponsorship deal with AstroPay. The online payment provider will replace online bookmaker Manbet as the club’s main sponsor.
June 7 – The finals tournament for Oceania’s Champions League will be hosted by New Zealand in August, with all eight competing teams to be confirmed at the end of June, the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has announced.