1:59 PM ET Associated Press Champions League winner Real Madrid earned the most prize money from UEFA last season with €133.7 million ($146.4m), the European governing body said Wednesday. Madrid’s total included a basic payment for entering the group stage, results bonuses, a share of Spanish broadcasting rights and an extra payment based on clubs’
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11:48 AM ET Nearly 900 Liverpool fans who attended last year’s Champions League final in Paris have filed legal action against European football’s governing body for personal injuries allegedly caused by chaos outside the stadium. Law firm Leigh Day filed a lawsuit against UEFA and UEFA Events on Monday, according to publicly available records of
9:12 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said the refereeing scandal facing Barcelona is one of the most serious situations he has ever seen in football. European football’s governing body announced in March it had opened an investigation into payments Barca made to the former vice president of the refereeing committee
9:02 AM ET Sam Marsden Moises Llorens UEFA have opened an investigation into payments made by Barcelona to the former vice president of the refereeing committee in Spain, the body confirmed in a statement on Thursday. Barca paid Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira over €7 million between 2001 and 2018, with Spanish prosecutors alleging they sought
2:49 PM ET Associated Press Changes to UEFA’s rules could ease a Qatari-funded takeover of Manchester United, despite PSG being owned by a Qatari sovereign wealth fund. Matthew Peters/Manchester United via Getty Images UEFA should rethink its rules that prevent clubs in related ownership from playing in the same competition such as the Champions League, its president
6:29 AM ET Every Liverpool supporter with an official ticket for last season’s Champions League final against Real Madrid in Paris will be given a full refund by UEFA following the chaotic scenes outside the Stade de France that led to hundreds of fans missing the game. UEFA announced that all 19,618 tickets which made
9:24 AM ET Adriana Garcia Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos has supported the new plans to launch a breakaway European Super League (ESL) and said UEFA is “by no means a great Samaritan for football fans.” Earlier this month, it was announced that ESL planned to launch a new competition that could include as many
3:28 PM ET Associated Press Liverpool supporters were sprayed with tear gas in Paris before the 2022 Champions League final. Charlotte Wilson/Offside/Offside via Getty Images UEFA-appointed investigators have said European footballing’s ruling body bears the “primary responsibility” for chaotic security failures at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris that put the lives of Liverpool and
5:30 AM ET Russian clubs and national teams have been suspended from competitive football since Feburary. FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images The Russian Football Union (RFU) will hold an executive committee meeting on Friday to discuss resigning from UEFA — European football’s governing body — in order to move to the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), sources
12:56 PM ET Associated Press UEFA confirmed on Tuesday that Russia have been banned from the 2024 European Championship. Russian teams were banned in February from international competitions by both UEFA and world footballing body FIFA days after the country’s invasion of Ukraine. A Russian appeal against those decisions was dismissed at the Court of
2:03 PM ET UEFA has opened an investigation into alleged discriminatory behaviour by Juventus fans in their 2-1 Champions League defeat by Paris Saint-Germain at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday, European soccer’s governing body said. Footage on social media appeared to show travelling supporters of the Italian side making Nazi salutes and monkey gestures
10:29 AM ET UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin said on Monday that he was certain Spain and Portugal will host the 2030 World Cup. The two countries signed an agreement in 2020 to push ahead with a joint bid to host the tournament and made it official in June. – Stream on ESPN+: LaLiga, Bundesliga, MLS,
12:36 PM ET Associated Press Paris Saint-Germain must pay €10 million ($10 million) for breaking UEFA financial rules, with seven other clubs also punished for overspending since 2018. UEFA said its club finance investigators ordered prize money from European competitions totaling €26m ($26.1 million) to be withheld from the eight clubs sanctioned under Financial Fair
1:19 PM ET Alex Kirkland Rodrigo Faez Karim Benzema has been named UEFA Men’s Player of the Year — solidifying his status as favourite to win the Ballon d’Or — after scoring a personal best 15 goals as Real Madrid won the 2021-22 Champions League. Benzema, 34, helped fire Madrid to a LaLiga and Champions
2:00 PM ET Barcelona midfielder Alexia Putellas won the UEFA Women’s Player of the Year award on Thursday, beating England‘s Beth Mead and Germany’s Lena Oberdorf to the top prize, while England head coach Sarina Wiegman was crowned coach of the year. Putellas, who won award last year along with the Ballon d’Or Feminin, netted
3:43 PM ET Finally, it’s time for the UEFA Champions League group stage! The road to the final began back in June with the first qualifying round, and now, the field of 78 teams has been whittled down to 32 and the groups have been drawn. Now we know where the narratives are, and there
11:03 AM ET Associated Press England star Beth Mead and head coach Sarina Wiegman have been nominated for UEFA’s women’s player and coach of the year awards. Mead helped lead the Lionesses to their first European title last month on home soil, being named player of the tournament and finishing as the joint top scorer
1:15 PM ET Fenerbahce fans are seen reacting after Vitali Buyalsky scored for Dynamo Kyiv in their Champions League qualifier in Istanbul on Wednesday. Seskim Photo/MB Media/Getty Images UEFA said on Thursday it will start a disciplinary investigation against Turkey’s Fenerbahce over a group of its fans chanting Russian President Vladimir Putin’s name after conceding a
12:56 PM ET Associated Press UEFA will trial safe standing with a view to reintroducing it on a permanent basis. Harold Cunningham/Getty Images for UEFA Safe-standing areas will be allowed on a trial basis at European club games involving teams from England, Germany and France this season, UEFA said on Wednesday. European football’s governing body said
11:37 AM ET UEFA and FIFA will next week seek to convince Europe’s top court that they have the right to block clubs from joining a breakaway league and penalise players. The dispute between UEFA, FIFA and the European Super League has ramifications for other sports, clubs and players eyeing lucrative deals offered by rebel