March 12 – Brazilian superstar, Neymar, who recently returned with much fanfare to his boyhood team, Santos, has come under fire after attending carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
March 11 – South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe (pictured) will run unopposed to secure a second four-year term as African football boss at the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) on Wednesday.
March 11 – Franz Beckenbauer is set to make his long-awaited return to Football Ultimate Team, joining the ICON ranks in EA Sports FC for the first time. His posthumous comeback follows in the footsteps of Diego Maradona, whose likeness was recently reinstated in the game after a three-year legal battle.
March 11 – Seven members of Diego Maradona’s medical team who treated the former Argentine superstar before his death have gone on trial, charged with homicide, in Buenos Aires.
March 11 – Manchester United have officially unveiled plans to construct a 100,000-capacity, state-of-the-art stadium, which would replace their historic 115-year-old Old Trafford home.
March 11 – Manchester United co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe has delivered a scathing assessment of the club’s current squad, branding several high-profile players as “not good enough” and “overpaid”.
March 11 – High-flying Premier League club Nottingham Forest have failed in their appeal against a £750,000 fine imposed for a social media post last season that took aim at a match official.
March 11 – Danish Football Union (DBU) chairman Jesper Møller has said that FIFA and UEFA are interested in overturning the ban that prevents Russian clubs, and the Russian National Team, from competing in their competitions.
March 11 – Australian broadcaster SBS Sports has just secured the free-to-air rights for the 2025 Major League Soccer (MLS) season. Under this agreement SBS will air a featured match under the banner of Sunday Night Soccer every Monday morning.
March 11 – Serie A giants Juventus have previously spent time conquering European and Italian football, and they have now set their sights on the moon after announcing a partnership with Lunar Outpost, an aerospace company focused on space mobility and sustainability.
March 11 – Misfiring on the pitch, Arsenal have set their sights on a new sporting director in the hope of finding the elusive ingredient to win the Premier League, with Andrea Berta, formerly of Atlético Madrid, the favourite to fill the vacancy.
March 11 – The Romanian Football Federation (FRF) has signed a new sponsorship agreement with official partner 5 to go which will run until 2031.
March 11 – Mexico does what Mexico wants, including the installation of an unelected president to represent the country’s federation on all international boards, meetings and at FIFA and Concacaf events.
March 11 – Major national team tournaments always have mascots who often become synonymous with the competition. Concacaf have taken the concept a stage further with the unveiling of Volar, the Confederation’s first-ever official mascot who will be deployed across all the confederation’s competitions.
March 10 – US President Donald Trump has established a 2026 World Cup task force to oversee preparations for FIFA’s flagship tournament.
Trump will chair the task force with vice president JD Vance serving as a vice chair while a yet unnamed executive director will oversee day-to-day operations. This summer the US will host the Club World Cup, a dress rehearsal for the 48-team finals co-hosted with neighbours Mexico and Canada.