Europe

The European Parliament has urged outgoing Fifa president Sepp Blatter to step down with immediate effect so that world football’s governing body can fully address its corruption scandal.

Budapest's bid for the 2024 summer Olympic Games has received a boost after receiving unanimous support from the Hungarian Olympic Committee (MOB).

Fifa handed over data and IT equipment from its headquarters to the Swiss attorney general’s office yesterday (Wednesday) as investigations continued into allegations of corruption.

The Netherlands has pulled out of hosting the 2019 European Games, just one month after being named as the European Olympic Committees’ (EOC) “preferred candidate” to stage the multi-sport event.

Lionel Messi is to face trial over an alleged €4.1m ($4.5m) tax fraud after a Spanish court turned down an appeal by lawyers representing the Barcelona and Argentina football superstar.

The Global Champions League, a new show jumping league and team competition developed by the Global Champions Tour (GCT), has accused the FEI, the global governing body of equestrian sports, of breaching European Union competition law.

The first ticket sales phase for the Uefa Euro 2016 national football team tournament in France opened this morning (Wednesday).

Almaty in Kazakhstan and Beijing in China have integrated their bids for the 2022 winter Olympic Games into long-term development strategies for their cities, according to International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach.

Scottish Premier League champion Celtic has been granted permission to re-introduce a standing area at its Celtic Park home stadium in Glasgow.

Thai businessman Bee Taechaubol has revealed that he expects to wrap up a deal in the next two months to acquire a 48-per-cent stake in Italian Serie A football club AC Milan.

Badminton Europe, the sport’s European governing body, has announced that the Danish city of Kolding is to host the 2017 edition of its showpiece European Badminton Championships.

Underwear and beachwear manufacturer D.Hedral has signed up Swiss tennis star Stanislas Wawrinka as a global brand ambassador.

Domenico Scala, the head of the auditing and compliance committee at football’s world governing body Fifa, has said that the award of hosting rights for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to Russia and Qatar could be annulled if evidence of bribery emerges.

Euroleague Basketball has revealed the details of new Financial Fair Play rules that will be implemented for the start of the 2015-16 campaign of the European club tournament.

The Spanish Football League (LFP) has today (Friday) demoted Elche from La Liga due to “very serious infractions” of the top division’s Law of Sport and company statutes.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has confirmed the government’s support for a major expansion project of Roland Garros, the home of the French Open tennis grand slam tournament.