November 20 – The Boost LaLiga initiative, introduced in 2021, has seen €2 billion pumped into Spanish league clubs via investors CVC, with the aim of improving overall stadium use across matchday and non-matchday events in order to maximise off-field profits.
November 17 – Former Dutch international Marc Overmars has been banned from football in his homeland for a year after admitting to sending inappropriate messages to female colleagues “over a period of time”.
November 17 – AC Milan’s international defender Alessandro Florenzi has reportedly become the latest Italian player to be investigated by authorities over alleged illegal gambling activities.
November 16 – Anwar El Ghazi, a Dutch international winger of Moroccan descent, is taking legal action against Bundesliga club Mainz 05 for wrongful dismissal over a pro-Palestine social media post.
November 16 – Turkish company Artaș Holding will invest in the Romanian elite FC Universitatea Cluj, though terms for the partnership are unclear.
November 15 – Former Brazil and Barcelona defender Dani Alves is to stand trial in Spain for alleged sexual assault.
By Paul Nicholson in Miami
November 15 – Bernd Reichart, CEO of A22 Sports, which was established to create and promote the European Super League project, said that if they win their case at the European Court of Justice (ECJ) they will progress to setting up a 60-80 team European club league structure.
November 14 – Former England World Cup winner Sir Bobby Charlton was remembered both as one of English football’s finest players and a “humble” and “fantastic” man as thousands of fans and a string of dignitaries bid him a final farewell on Monday.
November 13 – Real Madrid president Florentino Perez launched a barrage of attacks on LaLiga and UEFA in his speech to the club’s ordinary general assembly on Saturday.
November 13 – Botev Plovdiv’s management have strongly condemned the violence that took place during the derby against Levski Sofia in the Bulgarian efbet League.
November 13 – Former Ghana international striker Raphael Dwamena has died after collapsing Saturday during an Albanian Super League match at the age of 28.
November 10 – The Ligue 1 clash between Olympique de Marseille and Olympique Lyonnais, rescheduled for December 6 after being postponed due to an attack on the Lyon team bus, will still be played at Marseille’s Stade Velodrome, the French League (LFP) have announced, prompting an angry response from Lyon.
By Paul Nicholson in San Diego
November 10 – This weekend the NWSL closes its season with its Championship Final between OL Reign and NJ/NY Gotham FC at the Snapdragon Stadium in San Diego. It will also close out the careers of two US footballing legends, Megan Rapinoe and Ali Krieger.
November 10 – Bulgaria’s Levski Sofia has paid nearly BGN 2.5 million (€1.25 million) of its debt to the National Revenue Agency (NRA) in the last eight months, according to information given to shareholders at the club’s AGM this week.
November 9 – Fifpro General Secretary Jonas Baer-Hoffmann (pictured) is stepping down after 11 eventful years with the world players’ union, the last four as its general secretary.