Yvette Félix, an assistant coach at the Haitian Football Association (FHF), has been banned from the game for five years by the FIFA Ethics Committee for failing to protect the physical and mental integrity of various female players who were under her authority at the National Training Centre.
The European football body UEFA has posted a deficit of €73.9 million (£63.8 million/$88.7 million) for the COVID-hit 2019-2020 financial year.
Defending Olympic men's football champions Brazil will open their Tokyo 2020 campaign against Germany in a repeat of the Rio 2016 final.
Irish Football Association (IFA) President David Martin has been elected to the FIFA vice-president role reserved for one of the four British associations at the UEFA Congress in Montreux.
International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has reiterated his warning that the European sports model is under threat due to "purely profit-oriented goals of commercial sports providers and investors" amid The Super League breakaway in football, which now appears to be in tatters.
The UEFA Executive Committee will not make a decision on Bilbao, Dublin and Munich staging European Championship matches until Friday (April 23), as today's meeting was dominated by the seismic announcement that 12 football clubs are founding a breakaway league.
UEFA and FIFA have reacted furiously to a move from 12 European clubs to launch "The Super League" - a new competition outside of the existing football framework which would not respect traditional promotion-relegation models - and pledged to do everything in their power to stop it.
The South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL) plans to start immunising players due to appear at this year’s Copa América as soon as the arrival of the promised Chinese Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines, due in May, takes place.
Players at this year's Copa América are set to receive the Chinese Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine before the start of the tournament after the company agreed to donate 50,000 doses to the South American Football Confederation (CONMEBOL).
The Italian Football Federation (FIGC) has been given the all-clear by the country’s Government to allow fans to attend matches at this year’s European Championship.
Chile have secured the last place in the women's Olympic football tournament at Tokyo 2020 by defeating Cameroon over a two-legged playoff.
China claimed the final place on offer for Asian countries at the women’s football tournament at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics after a dramatic aggregate victory following extra time against South Korea.
UEFA first vice-president Karl-Erik Nilsson is to serve another two years as head of the Swedish Football Association (SvFF) after being re-elected.
FIFA has welcomed a decision by the Zurich Labour Court which found the dismissal of former acting secretary general Markus Kattner to be "justified and appropriate".
The Football Federation Islamic Republic of Iran (FFIRI) has appealed to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against the Asian Football Confederation's (AFC) decision to choose Bahrain as its centralised host for upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Denver were awarded the 1976 Winter Olympic Games ahead of Sion in Switzerland, Tempere in Finland and Vancouver in Canada at the International Olympic Committee Session in 1970. But in a Colorado referendum in November 1972, voters rejected funding for the event. It is the only time a city has been awarded the Olympics but pulled out. The IOC then offered the Games to Whistler in Canada, but they too declined owing to a change of Government following elections. Salt Lake City offered to host the Games, but the IOC, still reeling from the Denver rejection, declined and selected Innsbruck, the 1964 host city, as a replacement.
The Football Association - Insight & Analytics Manager - London, United Kingdom
The Football Association (The FA) is the governing body of football in England. We are responsible for promoting and developing the game at all levels; from grass roots through to the professional game, The FA Cup and the England International teams, and has two core assets: Wembley Stadium and St George's Park. As the Insight & Analytics Manager you will be part of the Behavioural Insight & Business Analytics (BIBA) team. The primary role of the BIBA team within The FA is to generate insight which inspires, informs and enables evidence-based decision making across the organisation.
The coronavirus pandemic has had a profound impact on sport, but many elite athletes have also made their impact felt during the health crisis, working on the medical frontline and in some cases sacrificing their chances of sporting success for the good of public health. Mike Rowbottom reports.
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