May 13 – The European Leagues have welcomed the last-minute changes to UEFA’s re-configured Champions League structure that will come into force post 2024 and were approved by UEFA’s executive committee and congress this week.
May 13 – A media investigation has revealed that a number of FIFA-recommended hotels in Qatar have refused to accept LGBTQ+ guests despite previous claims that those of all gender persuasions would be welcomed for the World Cup.
May 13 – TikTok has become an official partner of the Women’s EURO 2022 in a one-event deal, following on from its partnership with the men’s EURO 2020 championship last year.
May 13 – Football Australia has announced the country’s first ever domestic club licensing regulations for its professional leagues.
May 13 – Premier League Chelsea, still theoretically operating under a restrictive government license while the club sale to the Todd Boehly-led and Clearlake Capital-backed group is completed, has announced a £20 million shirt sleeve deal with cryptocurrency trading platform WhaleFin.
May 13 – US sportwear giant Nike is reported to have severed its 17-year sponsorship deal with Russian Premier League club Spartak Moscow after the team was ruled out of next season’s European competitions because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
May 12 – Ecuador’s place in this year’s World Cup finals appears to be in seriously jeopardy after FIFA opened a disciplinary case looking into whether the country fielded an ineligible player during qualifying.
May 12 – UEFA’s revenue record breaking Euro 2020 championships, played last year, have provided confidence for a bumper 21% increase in budget for the confederation’s HatTrick programme for the 2024-2028 cycle.
May 12 – Ajax have been crowned Dutch champions for a record 36th time following a resounding 5-0 victory against Herenveen, securing a direct ticket to the Champions League group stages.
May 12 – The World Cup has begun its now traditional journey quadrennial journey towards the World Cup host nation, in this case Qatar and arriving in time for the October-November event. The tour has become the FIFA equivalent of the Olympic flame.
May 12 – Ukraine’s men’s national team has played its first match since the Russian invasion – against Germany’s Borussia Monchengladbach on Wednesday.
May 12 – French side Nice have condemned a section of their own supporters for a sickening chant mocking the late Emiliano Sala.
May 12 – Blockchain-based football game TopGoal, which is targeted expansion in Asia, has agreed a strategic partnership with South Korea’s Klatyn Foundation, one of the country’s largest publicly traded technology companies.
May 12 – Having chaired the AFC Executive Committee meeting in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, at the weekend, the first-time ever the AFC’s top table has met in a Central Asian nation, AFC president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa has stayed in the region to meet with other member associations and government officials.
May 12 – The Argentine FA is to launch a personalised NFT platform with streaming platform OneFootball.