A players strike in Liga F, the professional top tier of women’s football in Spain, has ended after an agreement on a minimum wage was reached between the league and players’ unions. The strike saw all games on matchday one of the 2023-24 Liga F season — which were due to take place last weekend — postponed, with matchday two also under threat. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more…
Alexia Putellas has said Spain’s footballers are fighting for changes beyond just football as the fallout to Luis Rubiales’ behaviour after last month’s World Cup final continues. Rubiales resigned from his role as Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) president earlier this week after multiple investigations were opened into his conduct following Spain’s 1-0 win over England on Aug. 20, which included an unsolicited kiss on forward Jenni Hermoso. – Rubiales explainer:…
With the summer transfer window now formally closed, the CIES Football Observatory in Switzerland has crunched the numbers and produced a list of the top 100 most expensively assembled first-team squads in world football. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, more (U.S.) According to the data, four clubs have managed to break the €1 billion barrier while piecing together their 2023-24 squads, having invested truly vast amounts in transfer fees…
LaLiga has announced a one-year shirt sponsorship deal with Welsh village team Clwb Pêl Droed Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch Football Club, with the league’s “LL” logo to be displayed on the club’s home and away shirts for 2023-24. The team — based on the island of Anglesey and known as CPD Llanfairpwll FC for short — play in Division One of the North Wales Coast West League, in the fifth tier of Welsh…
As the Premier League resumes this weekend following a two-week international break, fans are not short of debating points after the opening salvos of the campaign. You could argue that it’s all going with the form book, as title favorites Manchester City lead the early standings with promoted Burnley and Luton Town both pointless and filling the bottom two positions in the league table. But who thought Spurs would race…
The summer transfer window has closed throughout most of Europe, but there are still moves in the works and plenty of gossip swirling around. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings, goings and, of course, done deals! The doubt caused by Paul Pogba’s positive doping test has resulted in Juventus sporting director Cristiano Giuntoli looking at midfielders who could be brought in as soon as January,…
The summer transfer window has closed throughout most of Europe, but there are still moves in the works and plenty of gossip swirling around. Transfer Talk brings you all the latest buzz on rumours, comings, goings and, of course, done deals!
Former Spanish Football Federation [RFEF] president Luis Rubiales has been summoned to testify at Spain’s National Court on Friday on charges of sexual assault and coercion. Prosecutors filed a lawsuit against Rubiales — who resigned from his position as president on Sunday — last week following his unsolicited kiss on Spain forward Jennifer Hermoso’s lips after last month’s Women’s World Cup final. A judge agreed to take on the case…
One day after Spanish official Luis Rubiales resigned from his leadership jobs, European soccer body UEFA hosted a storied group of women players and coaches for a conference Monday to help shape a brighter future for their game. And when it was over, UEFA thanked its now-former vice president “for his many years of service” in a statement following Rubiales’ conduct at the Women’s World Cup final three weeks ago…
Portugal didn’t need Cristiano Ronaldo to rack up its biggest-ever win in a competitive game with a 9-0 rout of Luxembourg in European Championship qualifying on Monday.