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Coming up: six promoted teams to look out for in Europe this season
Former European heavyweights, investment projects and teams from tiny towns will liven up the top tiers

Football transfer rumours: Arsenal back for £60m Konsa? Asencio to Liverpool?
Darwin Núñez to join Salah at Trabzonspor? | Alistair Johnston to Everton? | Lucas Bergvall to Newcastle?

Alessia Russo: ‘When you join the club, you take on a part of Arsenal and the love’
Alessia Russo’s game went up a level last season. Now, the Arsenal forward tells Suzanne Wrack, she wants to push on for more trophies, starting with the WSL

How to fix Fifa: what can be done to salvage football’s beleaguered governing body?
Gianni Infantino followed World Cup controversies with a widely scorned plan to let private investors in. Here’s how the game’s leaders can find a path forward

Players hit out at A-Leagues’ conduct over pay offer: ‘Continues to erode trust’
A-League officials have been accused of negotiating in bad faith by speaking to the media within hours of their latest offer, which includes an increased women’s salary cap

Fifa insists Gianni Infantino will remain president after Rabat crisis meeting
A Fifa statement said Gianni Infantino has sent written apologies to the Fifa council and the 211 member associations over the World Cup sell-off

Mark Carney has ‘no confidence’ in Infantino as Luís Figo calls for Fifa president to resign
The Canadian prime minister called Infantino’s abortive sell-off scheme ‘fatal’, while the Portuguese legend Figo said he should stand down ‘to save football’

NWSL sets plans for early start, summer break next season to account for 2027 World Cup
The Women’s World Cup and MLS’s calendar shift will offer the NWSL presented the NWSL with a host of challenges and opportunities for its 2027 plans

‘Fifa Super League’: Infantino discussed having governing body’s name on European breakaway
A document has shown how Fifa staff were involved in the European breakaway and that the global governing body was prepared to sideline member associations