August 20 – A promising Afghan footballer who played for the national youth team tragically fell to his death after trying to cling to a US plane airlifting residents out of Taliban-controlled Kabul, it has been confirmed.
August 20 – Ecuador’s Barcelona eliminated Fluminense 3-3 on aggregate to prevent an all-Brazilian affair in the last four of the Copa Libertadores.
August 20 – Italy’s Serie A has built on its crypto relationship with Crypto.com who will become the first Innovation & Technology Partner of the league in what Serie A is calling a multi-year partnership.
August 20 – Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has condemned the homophobic chanting that marred Liverpool’s opening Premier League win at Norwich last weekend.
By Samindra Kunti
August 19 – UEFA is planning a €6 billion relief fund to help leading European clubs survive the global health crisis that has ravaged the football industry.
By Samindra Kunti
August 19 – Brazilian clubs have become the playground bullies and are bossing the Copa Libertadores. On Wednesday, both Flamengo and Atletico Mineiro stormed past their opponents to join Palmeiras in the last four. Fluminense will try to complete the Brazilian quartet against Ecuador’s Barcelona after a 2-2 draw in their quarterfinal first leg.
August 19 – The Asian Football Confederation has expanded its broadcast rights deals in Japan with global streaming channel DAZN taking rights to all national team and club competitions, while free-to-air channel TV Asahi will broadcast national team games.
August 19 – The AFC Cup club competition resumed yesterday with group D, centralised in the Maldives, and seeing wins for India’s ATK Mohun Bagan and Bangladesh’s Bashundhara Kings.
August 19 – Flamengo have sidelined Eduardo Bandeira de Mello with a membership suspension of 90 days, preventing the former club chairman from voting or participating in the presidential elections later this year.
August 19 – Ligue 1’s AS Monaco has unveiled a two-season partnership with fantasy football platform Sorare, which will allow the club to enter the world of NFT(Non-FungibleTokens) for the first time.
August 19 – PSV Eindhoven have partnered with Anycoin Direct in a two-season deal. The Dutch club will be one of the first major football clubs to have an entire sponsorship paid in Bitcoin.
August 19 – US streaming giant Rokuhas taken a one-year sponsorship with Brazil’s São Paulo Futebol Clube, its first step into football club sports marketing in the country.
August 19 – Manchester United’s Old Trafford has undergone a £20 million facelift with the dressing rooms and broadcast media facilities refurbished.
August 18 – A new study is predicting that the fantasy sports market in the United States will grow by 8% year-on-year and hit an $8.3 billion value in 2021.
By Samindra Kunti
August 18 – Hosts Cameroon will kick off the delayed 2021 Africa Cup of Nations against Burkina Faso next year with Egypt – Nigeria and Algeria – Ivory Coast among the pick of the group stage matches following the finals draw in Yaounde.