Uganda - Magogo re-elected FUFA President
EFL statement: Rochdale AFC
On 16 August 2021, in accordance with its Regulations, the EFL issued notice to multiple individuals of the commencement of disciplinary investigations in respect to the acquisition of shares in Rochdale Association Football Club.
It is alleged that Morton House MGT acquired Control of the Club, and a number of individuals became Relevant Persons without the prior consent of the EFL in accordance with the Owners’ and Directors’ Test (OADT).
How HMRC's Renewed Preferential Creditor Status Impacts UK Football Clubs
Player Power v Data Monetisation – A New Battleground In Sport
Are Team Salary Caps In Football Compatible With EU Law?
The FA has published its Media Essentials Guide for the 2021-22 season
We have today published our Media Essentials Guide for the 2021-22 season.
This guide is produced each season to support print, broadcast and online journalists who are responsible for understanding our Rules and Regulations and ensure they report on any incidents accurately for their viewers, readers or listeners.
The RFEF considers the CVC-LNFP agreement illegal
The Royal Spanish Football Federation has had the opportunity to examine before tomorrow's Assembly and with a margin of only 48 hours the documentation provided - we do not know if in a complete way - by the LNFP that structures the operation intended by it and CVC. This operation, carried out with the absence of the slightest publicity and concurrence in the selection of the successful bidder, has two parts: that related to the commercialization of audiovisual rights, on the one hand; and the rest of the LNFP businesses, which make up a heterogeneous group, on the other.
EFL Statement: Harrogate Town v Rochdale AFC
Rochdale AFC will receive a bye into this season’s Round Two of the Carabao Cup after it was determined opponents Harrogate Town would be unable to fulfil the Round One fixture within the required time period.
Expedia Group extends UEFA Champions League partnership
UEFA has today announced that Expedia Group will continue as the Official Travel Partner of the UEFA Champions League for the 2021/22 season, with Expedia® and Hotels.com® leading the engagement. The one-year deal also grants sponsorship rights for the UEFA Super Cup, UEFA Youth League finals and the UEFA Futsal Champions League finals.
EFL statement: Harrogate Town
Harrogate Town’s next three fixtures will not take place as scheduled due to positive cases of COVID-19 being identified within the Club’s squad.
It means a number of individuals are unable to play or train due to either a positive test or the requirement to self-isolate in line with Government and EFL guidance.
How Brazil’s new “two coach” rule for league football works
A Guide To Financing Football Clubs: Part 2 – Equity Finance & Ownership Models
Liability Waivers For US Sports Venue Operators: Key Takeaways From Quezada V. Game Truck Georgia
Nike And Chilean National Team: Sponsorship Dispute Reaches The Copa América
Lincoln City's Liam Scully appointed EFL Trust Chair
The EFL Trust, the charitable arm of the EFL, is today delighted to announce that Liam Scully - Chief Executive of Lincoln City and Trustee of the Lincoln City Foundation - is to become its new Chair, officially taking up the role in September 2021.
The appointment follows the current EFL Trust Chair, John Nixon, stepping down from his role after a successful and memorable 10-year spell.
Determining the level of compensation for out of contract football players
INTERVIEW: FRENCH DEFENDER CEDRIC HOUNTONDJI DISCUSSES FIFPRO HEALTH STUDY
Cedric Hountondji is among more than 150 professional footballers participating in FIFPRO’s unprecedented 10-year research project into player health.
Williams begins first term in Wales
The new president of the Football Association of Wales (FAW), Stephen Williams, took up his post this week.
GLOBAL ATHLETE CALLS ON THE INTERNATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE TO IMMEDIATELY SUSPEND THE BELARUS NATIONAL OLYMPIC COMMITTEE
2 August 2021: Global Athlete calls on the International Olympic Committee to immediately suspend the Belarus National Olympic Committee and allow all Belarusian athletes to compete as neutral athletes under the Olympic flag. The alleged kidnapping of Belarusian Olympic athlete Krystsina Tsimanouskaya by the Belarus National Olympic Committee (NOC) is yet another example of the alarming athlete abuse occurring in Belarus.
Malta FA launches first strategy
The Malta Football Association has launched its first strategy, which will serve as the basis for the association’s commitment to raise the game across all levels.
Potential new restrictions and requirements on foreign State investment into European football clubs
The Premier League TV Rights Deal Rollover – A Break From The Norm
CZECH PLAYERS BANNED FROM THEIR FIRST TEAM
FIFPRO wants to remind clubs and professional football players that it is prohibited to exclude players from the first team through coercive methods.
INTERPOL: Integrity in sport - bi-weekly bulletin - 27 July 2021
NVESTIGATIONS
Ghana
Football: Player scores two own goals to ruin match-fixing plot in Ghana
A player in the Ghana Premier League Hashmin Musah has claimed that he scored two deliberate own goals in a match on Saturday so as to foil an alleged match-fixing plot.
Decisions of CAF Disciplinary Board – 14 July 2021
CAF Disciplinary Board held a meeting on 14 July 2021 and took the following decisions:
Decisions of the CAF Disciplinary Board - August 2021
The CAF Disciplinary Board met this week to deliberate on a number of matters.
Below is the summary from the Disciplinary Committee:
WADA revokes accreditation of Athens Laboratory
Yesterday, during an extraordinary meeting held online, the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA’s) Executive Committee (ExCo) endorsed a WADA Disciplinary Committee recommendation to revoke the accreditation of the Doping Control Laboratory of Athens, Greece (Athens Laboratory) due to non-compliances with the International Standard for Laboratories (ISL) and its related Technical Documents and Technical Letters.
The Athens Laboratory, which was already suspended, was immediately notified of the ExCo decision; and, as such, remains ineligible to analyze doping control samples for Anti-Doping Organizations that are compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code).
Four-year term for Kulesza in Poland
Cezary Kulesza has been elected as the new president of the Polish Football Federation (PZPN).
ECA Executive Board accepts clubs' requests to retain ECA membership
Following the receipt by ECA of specific requests asking the ECA Board to consider the withdrawal of their previous resignation requests of April 2021, the ECA Executive Board has agreed that the following clubs will retain their ECA ordinary membership for the current 2019-23 ECA membership cycle: AC Milan, Arsenal FC, Chelsea FC, Club Atlético de Madrid, FC Internazionale Milano, Liverpool FC, Manchester City FC, Manchester United FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC (“Clubs”).
Failure to reply to a FIFA proposal under Article 13 - lessons from Daugavpils v Kairat & FIFA
FIFA Global Integrity Program continues with CONCACAF edition
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35 member associations from North, Central America and the Caribbean to take part
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Concacaf workshop begins on 11 August 2021
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FIFA Global Integrity Programme, developed in collaboration with the UNODC, aims to educate and build integrity capacity across football
Thirty-five member associations from across the Concacaf region will come together this week to begin the third edition of the FIFA Global Integrity Programme, a dedicated integrity initiative designed to improve education and build integrity capacity across football.
Football comes together to fight online abuse
BT’s Hope United and the UEFA Foundation for Children team up to promote inclusion and eliminate discrimination ahead of the UEFA Super Cup in Belfast
WEBINAR | Independent Reviews and Investigations ?in Sport
Sport Resolutions, in association with Littleton Chambers, will be holding an event on independent reviews and investigations in sport on Thursday 9th September via Zoom Webinar.
Disciplinary charges, responses and suspensions for June and July 2021
2 July 2021
INCIDENT OF MISCONDUCT
Maurice Ross, Coach, Formerly of Notts County FC
Altrincham FC vs Notts County FC
Saturday 1st May 2021
Vanarama National League
Changes to the international match calendar due to the Covid-19 pandemic
The Bureau of the FIFA Council has approved a change to the men’s International Match Calendar in response to the global disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Guide To Financing Football Clubs: Part 3 – Future Trends & Expectations
A Guide To Financing Football Clubs: Part 1 – Debt Finance
OFC have taken the pledge to improving safeguarding for all across Oceania
August 8 marks international Safer Sport Day and OFC are joining International Safeguards for Children in Sport in their aim to raise awareness of safeguarding.
There are eight safeguards that should be in place by any organisation working with children in sport while encouraging organisations to “take the pledge” and commit to improving safeguarding in their organisation.
Sports Technology And Media Rights - The Year In Review 2020/2021
Concussion protocols being used at 2021 SCL
MIAMI, Florida – Concacaf is using the IFAB additional permanent “concussion substitutes” in the 2021 Scotiabank Concacaf League with the implementation of Protocol B enforced throughout the competition.
This follows the successful application of Protocol B throughout the 2021 Concacaf Gold Cup.
MENTAL HEALTH DOMINATES THE AGENDA IN URUGUAY
•Four Uruguayan footballers have taken their own lives in the last six months
•FIFPRO spoke with Diego Scotti, president of MUFP, the country's professional footballers' union
•‘We aim to put tools in the hands of the footballers,’ he says.
EFL commits support for knee and League-wide anti-discrimination activity
Ahead of the weekend’s opening round of League fixtures, the EFL is reaffirming its support to any player(s) and staff who wish to take the knee during the 2021/22 season
Adjudicatory Chamber of the Independent Ethics Committee sanctions Issa Hayatou
The adjudicatory chamber of the independent Ethics Committee has found Mr Issa Hayatou, former CAF president, former FIFA President ad interim, FIFA Vice-President and member of the FIFA Council, as well as Honorary FIFA VicePresident, responsible for having breached article 15 (Duty of Loyalty) of the FIFA Code of Ethics.
Brighton charged with several breaches of intermediary regulations
The Football Association has charged Brighton and Hove Albion FC with several breaches of Regulation A3 of its Regulations on Working with Intermediaries, which are alleged to have taken place between January 2015 and January 2018.
Political protests in sport – Athletes’ rights and duties at Tokyo 2020 Olympics
European football sees £3.4billion fall in revenue due to Covid-19 pandemic
European football has seen a £3.4billion fall in revenue for the first time in over a decade due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Revenue fell to £22.1billion and this is the first fall in revenue since the global financial crisis of 2008. Deloitte reported the revenue and said it “only accounts for, in most cases, three months of Covid-19 impact. It will be a number of years before the full financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on European football is known. But we're now beginning to see the scale of the financial impact that the pandemic has had on European clubs.”
No anti-doping rule violations at UEFA EURO 2020
All 1,616 urine and blood samples collected from players by UEFA, FIFA and participating teams’ national anti-doping organisations between 1 January 2021 and the end of the tournament were negative.
CZECH PLAYERS BANNED FROM THEIR FIRST TEAM
FIFPRO wants to remind clubs and professional football players that it is prohibited to exclude players from the first team through coercive methods.
A Guide To The Labour Structure Of The US Women's Soccer Team and League (NWSL)
INTERPOL Integrity in Sport Bi-Weekly Bulletin – 25 May 2021
INVESTIGATIONS
National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF)
Suspicion of a match-fixing around PSG-Red Star Belgrade: the investigation closed
The National Financial Prosecutor’s Office (PNF) has closed its preliminary investigation into suspicions of rigging of the Champions League match between Paris-SG and the Red Star of Belgrade in October 2018, said Thursday the lawyer of the Serbian club , confirming information from the Team.
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