February 19 – UEFA has collaborated with the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) on a Girls’ Grassroots Participation and Coach Education workshop in Kuala Lumpur, strengthening the two bodies’ collaboration on the development of the women’s game.
February 19 – The newly-rebranded Canadian Soccer Media & Entertainment (CSME) has strengthened its grip on the Canadian football broadcast landscape after agreeing a one-year extension with CONCACAF for exclusive domestic media rights.
February 19 – American billionaire Leon Cooperman has increased his stake in Manchester United, taking his holding to 5.2% of the club’s publicly traded Class A shares.
February 19 – Costa Rica’s CS Cartaginés held last year’s Champions Cup finalists to a 0-0 draw in the round one, first leg of their tie at Estadio Fello Meza, Cartago, Costa Rica.
February 17 – Supporters of OL Lyonnes and Paris Saint-Germain Women have announced plans to boycott their Women’s League Cup final following the decision to stage the match in Abidjan on March 14.
February 17 – Armand Duka has won a new four-year term as President of the Albanian Football Federation (FSHF) after a unanimous vote at the governing body’s General Electoral Assembly.
February 17 – Wicket, a leader in facial authentication technology for live events, has confirmed an expanded agreement with Major League Soccer (MLS) that will see its platform rolled out across multiple league events in 2026.
February 17 – The Turkish Football Federation (TFF) has officially announced a new two-year agreement with Sarıyer Kola, one of Turkey’s leading domestic beverage brands, designating them as the Official Supply Sponsor for the Turkish National Teams.
February 17 – The English Premier League and Football League will once again implement Ramadan matchday procedures this season, which allow brief pauses in play to give Muslim players and officials time to break their fast.
February 17 – The future of the Indian Super League (ISL) looked grim until streaming service FanCode stepped in to purchase the media rights earlier this month. With that deal locked down, the platform has now sublicensed the linear TV rights to one of the giants in the region, Sony Pictures Networks India (SPNI).
February 17 – German football fans are getting a closer look at a competition that is rapidly going global.
February 18 – The on-going war on streaming pirates has again hit the courts, this time in Spain, with another victory for rights owners and their broadcast buyers.
February 18 – The six-time MLS Cup Champions LA Galaxy will be looking to uses Panama’s Sporting San Miguelito as the stepping stone to a deep run in the 2026 Champions Cup and a kick start to their season after a poor 2025.
February 16 – Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has refused to clarify the retirement of the organisation’s general secretary Veron Mosengo-Omba (pictured).
February 16 – Casey Wasserman (pictured), leader of the LA28 Olympic Committee and controlling shareholder of the Wasserman sports and entertainment talent agency, has said he will sell his agency after being named in the Epstein files.
February 16 – African football supremo Patrice Motsepe has dismissed media reports that the next edition of the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) will be postponed until 2028.
February 16 – UEFA approved its 2024-25 accounts for the financial year at its congress in Brussels last week with a record €5 billion in total revenue being achieved, the first time it has passed that mark in a year without a men’s Euros final tournament.
February 16 – Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu has been identified as Europe’s most valuable stadium naming rights asset, with an annual fair market value of €21.1 million (£18.4 million), according to new analysis from The Sponsor.
February 16 – Benfica boss Jose Mourinho believes Real Madrid will arrive in Lisbon with their pride hurt – and that makes them all the more threatening – when the two sides renew acquaintances in the Champions League playoffs on Tuesday night.