August 29 – France U-21 manager Thierry Henry has reiterated the importance of the country’s youth teams, ahead of next year’s Olympic Games on home soil, to maintaining the senior side at the top of the world’s elite nations.
August 24 – A Football Association of Wales (FAW) survey has revealed that one in four match officials has suffered physical abuse.
August 21 – The Municipality of Plovdiv in Bulgaria is to provide the Hristo Botev and Lokomotiv stadiums to the country’s teams of Bulgaria free of charge.
August 14 – Makkabi Berlin, a German sports club with Jewish roots, made history on Sunday when it became the first Jewish team to compete in the German Cup – first played under the Nazis in 1935.
August 10 – Greece’s AEK Athens, Greek media and fan groups have called on UEFA to ban Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb from European competition after clashes before a Champions League third qualifying round match in Athens left one fan stabbed to death and the match being postponed.
August 7 – Kylian Mbappe is reported to have been barred from training with Paris St Germain’s first team as his contract dispute with the club continues.
August 3 – Ireland’s Football Association (FAI) won’t be rushed into a decision about the future of women’s coach Vera Pauw (pictured), saying that they will “undertake a full and comprehensive review of the campaign and tournament, as is our standard practice, and this will be discussed at the next FAI board meeting in the coming weeks”.
August 1 – English football authorities have introduced a series of disciplinary measures to improve the behaviour of players, managers and fans at all levels of the game next season.
July 28 – Danish champions FC Copenhagen have banned fans from taking signs to matches asking for players’ shirts.
July 24 – North Macedonia’s Vardar Skopje has been granted a license to play in the country’s top tier after the clubs used funds raised from the sale of membership cards to settle debt built up by the club’s former owner Slobodan Krstevski.
July 24 – The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne has reduced the punishment of Serbian club FK Kolubara. In May, the Serbian Football Union deducted 9 points from Kolubara a round before the end of the championship, effectively relegating them from the first division.
July 21 – The Skopje City Council have voted unanimously to grant financial aid to the local football club Vardar Skopje.
July 19 – Wrexham, the unheralded Welsh side owned by American Hollywood stars Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney and globally recognised after the documentary series ‘Welcome to Wrexham’, have gained even more notoriety.
July 18 – Researchers have found evidence suggesting that repetitive heading of balls during a professional football career is associated with a higher risk of cognitive impairment in later life.
July 18 – Ukraine’s FA have sent an official letter to FIFA and UEFA urging them to take action over two Crimean clubs being incorporated into the Russian domestic league.