Premier League implementation of video assistant referees next season looks unlikely as a number of clubs are understood to be reluctant to ratify its use at Friday's shareholders' meeting.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino is braced for controversy at the World Cup after the use of video assistant referees was approved last month.

FIFA boss Gianni Infantino has claimed that the process for choosing where the 2026 World Cup will be played is the fairest, most objective and most transparent in world sport.

Vitaly Mutko is now Russia's deputy prime minister, president of the Russian Football Union and the chairman of the organising committee for Russia 2018.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has accused his replacement Gianni Infantino of disrespecting him.

Fifa will allow the public to vote in a rebranded version of its player of the year of the award, world soccer’s governing body said yesterday.

Substitute Kyle Lafferty scored twice as Northern Ireland recorded a 4-0 victory over minnows San Marino in the first international to be staged at the refurbished Windsor Park.

FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani has suggested football might still be blighted by corruption if Russia and Qatar had not been chosen to host the next two World Cups.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has indicated his desire to expand the World Cup finals format from 32 to 48 teams.

Global football body FIFA has applied to US authorities for tens of millions of dollars in damages from ex-officials indicted there for graft and recognised for the first time executives had in the past “sold” votes in World Cup hosting contests.

Sepp Blatter, the dethroned Fifa president, is preparing to publish a personal account of his near 18 years at the head of football’s world governing body.

Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini are expected to have their respective eight-year suspensions from all football-related activity upheld this week as FIFA delegates prepare to gather in Zurich to elect a new leader.

None of the teams striving to make France in these play-offs really deserve their passage to Euro 2016, writes Brendan O’Brien

Uefa’s members remain split over their support for Michel Platini with some associations backing an alternative candidate such as Holland’s Michael van Praag be put forward for the Fifa presidential election.

Uefa, European football’s governing body, has said the election to choose a new president for international organisation Fifa should be postponed following the arrest of soccer officials in Zurich.

European governing body UEFA is not concerned by a perceived delay in adjudicating over Manchester City’s breach of financial fair play regulations.

The FAI’s scope to bring leading nations to Ireland for lucrative friendlies from 2018 is set to be reduced if, as expected, the new ‘Uefa Nations League’ is ratified today.

The Europa League winners will qualify for the Champions League from the 2015-16 season, it was confirmed at UEFA’s Congress today.

UEFA’s decision to bring in a minimum 10-match ban for players found guilty of racism will avoid the inconsistencies seen in the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases, campaigners have claimed.

Campaigners have welcomed Uefa’s decision to bring in a minimum 10-match ban for players found guilty of racism, saying the standard sanction will avoid the inconsistencies seen in the John Terry and Luis Suarez cases.

European football association are to be urged by UEFA to follow its lead and bring in a minimum 10-match ban for any player found guilty of racism.

The most expensive football transfer in Irish history was agreed on Friday. Understandably, you may have missed it.

England and Scotland could go head to head in a battle to host the Euro 2020 final after UEFA announced they will stage the tournament in up to 13 cities across the continent, with the FAI indicating that they will bid to host some games at Aviva Stadium.

UEFA will stage the Euro 2020 tournament in a number of cities across the continent, the European governing body decided today.

UEFA president Michel Platini has revealed the concept of one or two countries staging major tournaments may be abandoned for Euro 2020.

UEFA have conceded they are struggling to devise a format for the 24 teams in the finals of Euro 2016.

UEFA today confirmed they would consider banning from the Champions League players whose transfer rights are owned by third parties.

WITH 188 days to go to the kick off of the European Championships, it’s now more a case of pretty vacant than anarchy in the Ukraine, as the co-hosts look to follow a major renovation project with some running repairs to their public image.

UEFA general secretary Gianni Infantino has admitted there were times when he wondered whether Ukraine would prove itself fit to host Euro 2012.

INTERNATIONAL qualifiers will be played across six days between Thursdays and Tuesdays from 2014 to maximise TV coverage and broadcast income.

UEFA president Michel Platini today called on the Scottish Premier League to take action over their clubs' failure to qualify for Europe - but then gave Celtic real hope they will still secure a place in the group stage of the Europa League.

EUROPE’S biggest clubs must comply with UEFA’s “indirect salary cap” or face the music, Michel Platini warned yesterday.

UEFA president Michel Platini claims the governing body’s new rules on spending have ended the “total anarchy” that surrounded player transfers.

Premier League clubs’ debts are more than the rest of Europe’s clubs put together – but the English top flight also accounts for almost half of clubs’ assets across the continent.

Rangers could face the wrath of UEFA after a video of supporters apparently singing a sectarian song during their match against Osasuna was posted on the internet.

UEFA’s acting chief executive Gianni Infantino tonight reminded Rangers that sectarian chanting by supporters at their European matches could result in severe sanctions.