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 number of new clubs taking part in the Champions League for the first time has more than halved over the last two years according to Play the Game's annual Diversity Index.

Switzerland is the centre of international sports organisations, and now a new report from Swiss based research consultancy Rütter+Partner claims that the organisations produce substantial economic effects for the Swiss economy.

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.

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.

After what is surely the longest wait of any country that has actually applied to join one of FIFA’s six confederations, the Gibraltar Football Association were today - 14 years after first applying – accepted into UEFA.

At a meeting yesterday, the 53 European FIFA member associations unanimously adopted a declaration on proposed amendments to the FIFA statutes.

Social dialogue in professional football is essentially about the credibility of the sports stakeholders and their capacity to self-regulate their activities in the name of the autonomy that they claim, argue the authors Michele Colucci and Arnout Geeraert in this report produced as a part of the project 'Action for Good Governance in International Sports Organisations'.