The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) and the Western India Football Association (WIFA) have extended the Memorandum of Understanding which will ensure a further nine months of OFC Just Play activities in the Maharashtra region. The OFC Just Play Programme was first introduced in India in July 2016 with a pilot …

A new media partnership between the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) and SIA Media Group was recently signed for Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The deal covers the 2022 FIFA World Cup – Asian Qualifiers Final Round, the 2023 AFC Asian Cup – China, and the annual AFC Champions …

The Spanish LaLiga has responded to the message received from the representatives of the FC Barcelona player Lionel Messi. In its response, LaLiga notes that their interpretation of the contract is out of context and far removed from its literal state. LaLiga reiterates its statement published on August 30. Read …

They say that necessity is the mother of invention, and that has never been truer than it is in the current scenario, where the global coronavirus pandemic has helped breed innovation in almost everything we do – right from our regular interactions to daily modalities, such as the way we …

The lion has always been a powerful symbol in Dutch culture, and in 2020, it roars from the very heart of the Netherlands’ new Nike collection. “It felt essential to create a collection absolutely packed with national pride,” says Scott Munson, VP, Nike Football Apparel. “Integrating the KNVB’s lion directly …

Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports Kiren Rijiju laid special emphasis on the importance of growing home-grown coaches to broad-base football and other sports in the country, in an online discussion on Friday, September 4. “Coaching is an integral part of football. A lot of foreign coaches are brought in …

Valencia-based club Levante U.D., currently playing in the Spanish LaLiga, and Macron, technical sponsor of ‘Los Granotes’ (the “frogs” in Valencian Spanish dialect), have presented the new shirts that the team will wear in the upcoming 2020/21 season. The shirts Home and Away celebrate the club’s traditional social colours. The …

I still feel goosebumps when I go back to that evening of 4th September 1962. The Senayan Main Stadium in Jakarta was jam-packed with a partisan 1,00,000-strong Indonesian crowd cheering for Korea Republic at the top of their voice. But we had our support too. Any guesses? Strange as it …

At an Extraordinary Members Assembly of the DFL held today by video conference, the clubs of the Bundesliga and Bundesliga 2 again discussed the conditions for the upcoming 2020-21 season. Topics included the updated medical and hygiene-related occupational health and safety concept developed by the DFL’s and DFB’s ‘Sports Medicine …

The FC Bayern Media Lab, a subsidiary of FC Bayern München AG, is entering into a long-term strategic cooperation with Bits & Pretzels, the leading European start-up founders’ conference. As part of the collaboration, Bits & Pretzels will connect FC Bayern with leading start-ups from the fields of sports, technology, …