At the Extraordinary IOC Session in Lausanne 3-4 July 2013, the six candidates for the post as the next IOC president are presenting their election manifestos at a meeting closed for the press.

The number of new clubs entering into the Champions League in 2013/14 has dwindled compared to last year, according to the annual Champions League diversity index calculated by Steve Menary for Play the Game.

The partnership agreement with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation ensures live streaming from Play the Game 2013. Other important partnerships strengthen both the content and dissemination of the conference, among other things about the controversial 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.

In 2009 UEFA introduced financial fair play (FFP), a concept they designed to curb the influence and excesses of billionaire owners and reckless spending by clubs across Europe. UEFA’s ultimate goal is to force teams to break even over rolling three year periods, and their now CAS confirmed decision to ban Malaga from European competition next season is the first battle of the FFP era – but most certainly not the last.

The race between Istanbul, Madrid and Tokyo as Olympic hosts in 2020 promises to be as close and unpredictable as ever after the IOC's publication of the report on the strengths and weaknesses of the respective bids. In this article, David Gold takes a closer look at the IOC evaluation report.

The German IOC vice-president Thomas Bach stands out as clear favourite to become the next Olympic president at the elections in Buenos Aires on 10 September 2013. But recently German investigative journalist Jens Weinreich heard a whisper in the corridors: “ABB”. Read what it stands for in the first of two articles analysing the election of the next IOC president and the choice of the 2020 Olympic host city.

Countless Brazilians are taking to the streets in protests that started as an uprising against increasing transportation prices and evolved into country-wide demonstrations against the World Cup spending among other things. In this article, Erich Beting, Brazilian journalist and sports business expert, gives his account of the demonstrations.

A lot has been said about FIFA's reform process, and it is difficult to get a sense of what has actually been accomplished. In this article, Roger Pielke presents the results of his formal evaluation of the reform process, providing a more objective basis for assessing the outcome.