The UEFA administration will be paying €70m payments to 676 clubs from all 55 UEFA member associations. Deciding in today’s Executive Committee, UEFA has fast-tracked the financial benefits in order to ease the COVID-19 coronavirus effects. The payments were otherwise expected to be issued out after the European Qualifiers play-offs. READ ALSO: UEFA confirms dates […]
UEFA has today confirmed that the Women’s EURO which was postponed from 2021 will be played in England from 6 July to 31 July 2022. UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said: “When we had to take an urgent decision on the postponement of UEFA EURO 2020, we always had the impact on UEFA Women’s EURO 2021 in […]
UEFA on Tuesday recommended that domestic European football league seasons, currently on hold because of the coronavirus pandemic, be completed. “There was a strong recommendation given to finish domestic top division and cup competitions,” European football’s governing body said. READ ALSO: Ashley Young agree to one-year contract extension at Inter It added that “some special cases […]
UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says playing football matches behind closed doors would help bring a sense of normality back into fans’ lives – and would be better than not playing at all. With league and cup competitions around Europe unresolved and millions of people stuck at home, there is plenty of desire among the sport’s […]
Nyon (Switzerland) – UEFA has suspended all Champions League and Europa League matches “until further notice” due to the coronavirus pandemic, European football’s governing body said after a meeting on Wednesday. All national team games scheduled for June have also been postponed, including play-off matches for Euro 2020, which has been moved to 2021. (Reuters/NAN)
UEFA will discuss the fate of this season’s Champions League and its other competitions that have been suspended due to the coronavirus pandemic in a video conference meeting on Wednesday, European soccer’s governing body said in a statement. All UEFA competitions have been halted because of the flu-like virus that has killed around 34,000 people, […]
All Champions League and Europa League matches due to take place next week have been postponed because of the coronavirus outbreak, UEFA, the European football governing body, said on Friday. “In the light of developments due to the spread of COVID-19 in Europe and related decisions made by different governments, all UEFA club competitions matches […]
England should scrap its League Cup in order to avoid fixture congestion, UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said on Friday. English clubs compete for both the FA Cup and the League Cup every season but the scheduling and format of the latter has come in for criticism. The two-legged semi-finals have added to a congested calendar. […]
European football governing body UEFA remains relaxed about the status of the pan-continental Euro 2020 despite the global health situation following the coronavirus outbreak. “We’re in touch with the authorities. We’re in the hands of the local authorities and we’ll deal with whatever they tell us,” UEFA spokesman Phil Townsend said after Monday’s executive committee meeting […]
Manchester City CEO Ferran Soriano has defended the club following a UEFA ban due to breaches of financial fair play rules. UEFA announced on Friday that the Manchester club has been banned for two seasons from all European competitions, but the club revealed they will appeal the decision. READ ALSO: Boudaoui banned for four matches […]
Zurich – UEFA says it has shaved 15 seconds off the average time it takes for the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system to correct a decision in its Champions League this season. It said the average is now down to one minute 30 seconds. The head of UEFA’s referees’ committee, Roberto Rosetti, said he was […]
UEFA has received approximately 28.3 million requests for 2.5 million available tickets at the 2020 European Championship, European football’s governing body said on Friday. This is double the amount sought in the last edition of the event. READ ALSO: Rotterdam Open: Dan Evans beats Karen Khachanov to reach quarter-finals In the ticketing sales phase for […]
UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin and FIFA vice president Greg Clarke are due in Athens on Feb. 25, a Greek government spokesman said on Tuesday. The visit is to help Greece outline its action plan to overhaul the football game in the country. Hobbled by dwindling attendances and the damaging effects of a debt crisis, Greek […]
Liverpool produced a devastating attacking display to beat Racing Genk 4-1 in the UEFA Champions League on Wednesday but manager Juergen Klopp said he had not enjoyed it. Two goals, the second a beauty, by Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, playing in his first game in the competition for 18 months, and silky strikes from Sadio Mane and […]
Lazio have been ordered to play one UEFA competition home match in a partially closed stadium following the racist behaviour of their fans against Rennes in the Europa League. The supporters were alleged to have engaged in racist chanting at Stadio Olimpico, as Lazio came from behind to win 2-1 on October 3. READ MORE […]
The ugly sound of monkey chants and the sinister sight of football fans performing Nazi salutes have been beamed around the world. Now all eyes turn to UEFA, European football’s governing body. READ ALSO Doha: Nigerian Onyebuchi wins gold medal in world beach wrestling. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson called the racist abuse England’s black […]
Ljubljana – European football’s governing body (UEFA) said on Tuesday it would tell member clubs and national teams not to play games in countries where women do not have full access to stadiums. UEFA’s ruling executive committee agreed that it would “recommend to its 55 national associations and all European clubs not to play matches […]
Five time world champions, Golden Eaglets of Nigeria began their campiagn at the UEFA/CAF U17 Tournament by defeating Turkey.The host nation was lashed out two goals to none, Olakunle Olusegun and Divine Nwachukwu in each half of the game scored the goals. Manu Garba, Head Coach of the Eaglets said after the game that it […]
Group F Inter v Slavia Praha (5:55 pm)Inter: Handanovič; D’Ambrosio, De Vrij, Škriniar; Lazaro, Vecino, Brozović, Sensi, Asamoah; Lautaro, LukakuOut: noneDoubtful: Lukaku (back) Slavia: Kolář; Coufal, Kúdela, Hovorka, Bořil; Masopust, Traoré, Souček, Stanciu, Olayinka; Van BurenOut: noneDoubtful: Takács (unspecified) Group G Lyon v Zenit (5:55 pm) Lyon: Lopes; Dubois, Andersen, Denayer, Koné; Reine-Adélaïde , Thiago […]
French professional footballer, Eric Daniel Pierre Cantona made everyone present at the UEFA 2019 award in Monaco laugh hard with this speech. “As flies to wanton boys we are for the gods, they kill us for their sport. “Soon the science will not only be able to slow down the ageing of the cells, soon […]