The FIFA Appeal Committee has decided to reject the appeal lodged by FC Barcelona and the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and confirm the sanctions laid out in April for breaches related to the international transfer and registration of under-age players.

Education and prevention have been identified as key measures in the fight against match-fixing in a joint project by Transparency International, European Professional Football Leagues (EPFL) and the German Football League (DFL).

Three football clubs from the Crimea region in Ukraine are about to join the Russian football league in spite of Ukrainian protests. Both FIFA and UEFA say they are hoping for a compromise and neither have taken action so far.

With the ten-year anniversary for the Athens Summer Olympics coming up, media fills with stories about the questionable legacy of these games featuring photos of abandoned Olympic facilities left to fade away while Greece is struggling to balance what is left of a broken economy.

UEFA's Financial Fair Play-program (FFP) has received significant criticism. In a new paper, one of the architects behind FFP, Swiss professor Egon Franck, argues that the criticism is misguided.

The increasing globalisation of football brings problems like huge increases in inequalities, privatisation of assets and a lack of regulation. Bonita Mersiades talks to Jérôme Champagne, the man who dares to challenge for the FIFA Presidency.

Sports journalism is first and foremost entertainment. But is it really journalism’s task to do PR work for the world it is writing about? In the second of two articles on investigative journalism in sport, leading journalists call for more media who dare to delve behind the glossy facade of sport.

Yes, says former English FA chairman David Bernstein in a critical evaluation of his previous organisation, and the viewpoint is echoed in Brazil