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Royal Philips has extended its current sponsorship contract with Eindhoven football club PSV for another 10 years until 2031. Ever since the Philips Sport Vereeniging was founded in 1913, PSV and Philips have been inextricably linked, resulting in the world’s longest running partnership. “Especially in these challenging times, we believe …

Earlier this year, talismanic Indian women’s national team forward Bala Devi became the first woman player from the country to sign a professional contract with a European club as she signed for Rangers Women’s FC, who play in the Scottish Women’s Premier League. According to national team skipper Ashalata Devi, …

UEFA will deliver an unprecedented insight into one of the toughest jobs in football with next week’s release of an original documentary series showing up close and personal what it takes to be a UEFA Champions League referee. ‘Man in the Middle’, a weekly four-part series due to premiere on UEFA.tv on …

Introduced as a leisure jersey in the late 1980’s by Scottish FA and UMBRO, the original version was never released as an official kit, but famously worn by the squad on the cover of their Italia 1990 team song. The distinctive shirt originally launched in two vibrant colourways for the …

Changes have been made to the Germany squad ahead of their UEFA Nations League games against Ukraine (November 14) and Spain (November 17, both at 20:45 CET). Manuel Neuer, Serge Gnabry, Leon Goretzka, Niklas Süle and Leroy Sané (all FC Bayern München), as well as Matthias Ginter (Borussia Mönchengladbach), Timo …

UEFA has this week launched a new programme to help footballers coming to the end of their playing careers plan for their professional future. The first edition of the UEFA Assist Career Transition Programme (CTP) kicked off in conjunction with the Royal Dutch Football Association (KNVB), offering players based in …

At a time when member associations’ finances are facing more challenges and adjustments than ever, UEFA has staged an Executive Finance Essentials course, as well as holding meetings for national association finance directors across Europe. Through the UEFA Grow business development programme, European football’s governing body has worked closely with …

Germany U21 head coach Stefan Kuntz has named his squad for the upcoming friendly on November 12 (18:15 CET) against Slovenia and the EURO qualification match on November 17 (18:15 CET) against Wales. Both games will take place at the Eintracht-Stadion in Braunschweig. In Lennart Czyborra (Genoa CFC) and Jean-Manuel …

In the 1960s and then again between 1994 and 2017, the Republic of Ireland national football team proudly wore Umbro…and now the team will wear the iconic double diamond again for a six-year period. The men’s Home jersey is inspired by the extremely popular 2010 Home jersey, which offered a …