Europe

With the tournament kicking-off in just over 40 days, UEFA can confirm that the Henri Delaunay Trophy will travel across Europe ahead of the UEFA European Championship. With excitement building ahead of UEFA EURO 2020, which kicks off in Rome on 11 June, the iconic Henri Delaunay Trophy is visiting …

The European qualifying draw for the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup has set the nine groups starting later this year. The record 51 contenders are split into six groups of six teams, and three of five, to be played between September 2021 and September 2022. Qualifying groups Group A: Sweden, …

With less than six months to go until the start of the 2021 FIFA Futsal World Cup, the tournament’s match schedule was unveiled today. Kaunas has been confirmed as the host of the opening and final matches, with Vilnius and Klaipėda completing the list of host cities for the first-ever …

Dutch giants Ajax Amsterdam has reached an agreement with head coach Erik ten Hag for the extension of his contract which previously ran until June 30, 2022. The new agreement will take effect on July 1, 2021 and will run until June 30, 2023. Ten Hag (born in Haaksbergen, February …

UEFA has announced it will join a coalition of English footballing stakeholders, including the Football Association and the Premier League, by taking part in their social media boycott. UEFA will stay silent across its platforms this weekend, starting at 15:00 BST (16:00 CEST) on Friday, April 30. The aim of …

Macron and Sportclub SW Bregenz, the club from the Regionalliga, the third division of the Austrian championship, have announced their sponsorship agreement: the Macron hero will stand out on the shirts of the black and whites until 2024. The current club is the natural continuation of the Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz, a …

The Scottish Professional Football League (the “SPFL”) and broadcaster Premier Sports today announced that the Scottish League Cup will henceforth be known as the ‘Premier Sports Cup’, in a deal spanning at least the next two seasons. The title sponsorship of the League Cup comes through additional investment from Premier …

UEFA’s revamped Women’s Champions League, set to kick off this summer, will herald the dawn of a more sustainable future for women’s football, thanks to a pioneering financial distribution model. The new model, introduced for the 2021/22 season and approved by UEFA’s Executive Committee last week, will see the world’s …

Nordic Entertainment Group (NENT Group), the Nordic region’s leading streaming company, and Bundesliga International, a subsidiary of the DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga, have extended their media rights partnership until 2029 in nine European markets in an historic agreement. Football fans in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and …