Uefa

UEFA has invited seven football associations to attend an observer programme at its women’s Euro 2013 event ahead of the 2017 bidding process.

UEFA has expressed its confidence that France will be ready to stage Euro 2016 despite question marks over some of its stadium projects.

The Bulgarian Football Union (BFU) has announced that national top-flight club Botev Plovdiv will replace debt-ridden CSKA Sofia in this year’s UEFA Europa League, after receiving an official confirmation from the European governing body.

UEFA has banned Turkish clubs Fenerbahce and Besiktas from all European tournaments for match-fixing.

FIFA's Jim Boyce, chairman of the organising committee for the Under-20 World Cup, has criticised Turkey’s poor attendance figures in the opening days of the tournament.

Russian Premier League football club Anzhi Makhachkala has been ordered to hold its UEFA Europa League home matches away from its own stadium next season, due to security concerns.

Greek Super League football club Panathinaikos will appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport after its bid to secure a licence to play in European competitions next season was rejected.

UEFA’s financial fair play ‘break-even rule’ is to be challenged by Belgian football agent Daniel Striani, who will launch a legal action in the Court of First Instance in Brussels.

The Dutch Football Association (KNVB) has backed top-flight club Feyenoord’s proposal to develop a new stadium, stating that it will allow more national team games to be played in Rotterdam and could be utilised in a potential bid to host UEFA Euro 2020.

Malaga has been excluded from the 2013/14 Europa League after the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) on Tuesday rejected the Spanish club’s appeal against a UEFA ban from its competitions.

Ali Sabbagh, a Lebanese football referee who fixed matches for free sexual services, was sentenced to six months in jail for corruption in Singapore

UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino has today added pressure on FIFA’s decision to host football’s 2022 World Cup in the Qatari summer.

Russian gas giant, Gazprom has an image problem that it hopes sponsorship of football will help overcome. Its approach is a case study in using soft branding initiatives to spread its influence

Spanish club Malaga has made its case at The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to overturn a UEFA ban from next season's Europa League for unpaid debts.

The German Football Association (DFB) has announced that it has received bids from Berlin and Munich for consideration to be host cities of UEFA Euro 2020.

UEFA president Michel Platini has expressed his frustration at the removal of age limit proposals from today’s FIFA Congress agenda, and suggests its president Sepp Blatter is to blame for the decision.

UEFA has voted to include Gibraltar as a member nation.

Fuse, Omnicom Media Group’s sport and entertainment agency, has appointed UEFA’s Tyson Henly to the newly-created role of head of international football.