FIFA's anti-corruption advisers urged Sepp Blatter's executive committee to "demonstrate leadership" and not undermine their efforts. ...
11:12 PM, Feb 08, 2013
UEFA warned on Monday that the failure to control salaries was endangering the future of football on the continent. ...
09:29 PM, Feb 07, 2013
Featuring clubs such as Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool, the 20-team Premier League is the richest in the world for revenues. ...
12:02 AM, Feb 07, 2013
The 200-member European Club Association says most members responding to a survey about UEFA club competitions backed introducing the idea in 2015. ...
10:56 PM, Feb 05, 2013
UEFA subsequently took action over the Fiorentina game, banning Poleksic for two years for failing to report a corruption plot. ...
10:29 PM, Feb 05, 2013
UEFA will vet sponsorship deals struck by clubs to ensure they are not flouting new rules designed to force clubs to clean up their finances. ...
11:17 PM, Feb 04, 2013
UEFA will launch an appeal against all the sanctions imposed by their independent disciplinary on Serbia and England. ...
06:10 PM, Dec 26, 2012
Kuala Lumpur: UEFA President Michel Platini remains ardently opposed to the use of goal-line technology, which is being employed by FIFA for the first time at the Club World Cup, and said on Tuesday the money would be better spent developing the game. The technology was employed in Thursday's Club World Cup curtain raiser between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Auckland City in Yokohama as soccer's governing body FIFA finally answered calls...
01:34 PM, Dec 11, 2012
UEFA has increased Malta defender Kevin Sammut's match-fixing ban from 10 years to life, European soccer's governing body said on Monday. The player was found guilty of match-fixing over the Euro 2008 qualifier between Norway and Malta, a game his country lost 4-0. "Sammut has been banned from exercising any football-related activity for life by the UEFA appeals body," UEFA said in a statement. A UEFA control and disciplinary body...
06:45 PM, Dec 03, 2012
Berlin: European soccer's governing body UEFA is going ahead with a proposal for a Euro 2020 tournament hosted by half a dozen countries and not the usual one or two, Germany's UEFA executive committee member Theo Zwanziger said on Tuesday. Zwanziger, who was formerly head of the German Football Association (DFB), said the plan, still to be ratified by the UEFA executive committee, envisaged 12 countries hosting the expanded tournament...
10:08 AM, Nov 14, 2012
London: Chelsea vice-captain Frank Lampard will miss the crucial Premier League fixture against Manchester United on Sunday due to the recurrence of calf injury which forced the midfielder to limp out of the clubs 1-2 Champions League defeat to Shakhtar Donetsk on Tuesday. The 34-year-old lasted only 15 minutes of the game. "It's basically a recurrence of an old injury, said Chelsea manger Roberto Di Matteo. "He was training with...
09:08 AM, Oct 26, 2012
London: Manchester United midfielder Shinji Kagawa picked up an injury during the first half of last night's 3-2 comeback win over Braga and he is due for tests on Wednesday to discover the extent of the problem. The Japan international was replaced at half time by Nani after he picked up the injury midway through the first half at Old Trafford. "Kagawa twisted his knee," said Manchester United manager Alex...
01:14 PM, Oct 24, 2012
London: After one of its worst displays in years, Arsenal will be hoping to get back on track against Schalke in the Champions League on Wednesday to ensure the early-season optimism at the club doesn't disappear. Saturday's lackluster 1-0 loss to Norwich dropped Arsenal to ninth in the English standings, with even manager Arsene Wenger acknowledging the performance was a "shock to the system." However, the team remains in a...
05:05 PM, Oct 23, 2012
CLT20 has been conceptualized to match its football version, but it has failed miserably. ...
12:26 PM, Oct 12, 2012
London: Juventus President Andrea Agnelli on Wednesday questioned UEFA's willingness to ban big-spending clubs from the Champions League if they breach its Financial Fair Play (FFP) regulations. Clubs need to aim to break even on their football-related business, with the worst offenders risking a ban from UEFA competitions from the 2014-15 season. Speaking at the Leaders in Football conference, Agnelli highlighted that throwing a major club out of UEFA's Champions...
08:32 AM, Oct 11, 2012
London: UEFA president Michel Platini is determined to stage the World Cup during the European winter for the first time at the 2022 tournament in Qatar, the Frenchman told the London Evening Standard on Tuesday. The move would require all major European Leagues to take a month-long winter break, including England's Premier League which has no mid-season break at all. "I hope it will be held in winter," he said....
11:04 PM, Sep 25, 2012
London: Lazio is facing disciplinary action for racist behavior by its fans in a Europa League at Tottenham after UEFA opened a case against the Italian club on Friday. Monkey chants were reportedly directed at Tottenham players Jermain Defoe, Aaron Lennon and Andros Townsend during the 0-0 draw at White Hart Lane on Thursday which was attended by UEFA President Michel Platini. Lazio was charged after UEFA received the reports...
01:19 PM, Sep 22, 2012
London: Chelsea coach Roberto di Matteo admitted that Friday's UEFA Super Cup encounter against Atletico Madrid brought back strong memories of his two greatest triumphs with the club. The Italian returns with his side to the scene of the Blues' famous 1998 Super Cup win over Real Madrid at Monaco's Stade Louis II, where he starred in midfield 14 years ago. And leading Chelsea to Champions League victory over Bayern...
09:08 AM, Aug 31, 2012
Monte Carlo: Barcelona midfielder Andres Iniesta won the UEFA Best Player in Europe award for the 2011-2012 season on Thursday. Iniesta earned 19 votes in the poll of journalists from across Europe, two more than Barcelona teammate and last year's winner, Lionel Messi, and Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo. The 28-year-old Iniesta was instrumental in helping Spain successfully defend their European Championship title this summer and was crowned the tournament's best...
10:46 PM, Aug 30, 2012
Malta: Malta international midfielder Kevin Sammut has been given a 10-year suspension by European soccer's governing body UEFA after being found guilty of match-fixing in the Euro 2008 qualifier between Norway and Malta. The match ended in a 4-0 win for Norway, who scored three times in the last 18 minutes. Sammut, one of three players cited in the ruling by UEFA's Control and Disciplinary Board, was substituted at halftime....
08:37 PM, Aug 20, 2012
