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FIFA World Club Cup: after Morocco (2013 and 2014), competition returns to Japan in 2015 and 2016

Japan will host the 2015 and 2016 editions of the World Club Cup, FIFA confirmed on 23/04/2015. After Morocco, the organiser of the competition in 2013 and 2014, Japan was the only candidate to host the next two tournaments. This country has hosted six editions of the FIFA Club World Cup in 2005…

Germany: the league will launch a video-on-demand service for the Bundesliga archives

The DFL will offer a paying video-on-demand service to watch archive footage of the Bundesliga, starting from the 2015-16 season, announced the German professional football league on 22/04/2015. Users of this service will be able to choose from a selection of the best matches in the history of the…

Premier League: clubs oppose possible Guinness offer to become title sponsor in 2016-17

Premier League clubs oppose the possible offer of the Irish beer brand Guinness, which belongs to the British Diageo group, to become the title sponsor of the Premier League in place of Barclays Bank, revealed the British newspaper the Daily Mail on 20/04/2015. The British bank Barclays is under…

Armenia: Ruben Hayrapetyan has been re-elected for a fourth term as the president of the Federation

Ruben Hayrapetyan was unanimously re-elected as president of the FFA (Football Federation of Armenia), at the general meeting of the body in Yerevan (ARM) on 18/04/2015. Ruben Hayrapetyan, 52 years old, begins his fourth term as head of the FFA, of which he became president in 2002. "Although many…

La Liga: number of socios by club (as of 23/04/2015)

In Spain, a "socio" is a member of a club's association. Below is the number of socios per club in the 2014-15 Liga BBVA as of 23/04/2015. It is important to note that four Spanish clubs -- FC Barcelona, Real Madrid CF, Athletic Club Bilbao, and CA Osasuna (in the Liga Adelante in 2014-15, the…

Bundesliga: number of association members by club (as of 27/04/2015)

FC Bayern Munich is the club with the most association members (251,315) in the Bundesliga as of 27/04/2015, ahead of FC Schalke 04 (132,000) and Borussia Dortmund (120,000). On average, a Bundesliga club has 52,000 association members. The total number of association members in the Bundesliga is…

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Russia 2018: Joseph Blatter invites politicians that are "not particularly happy" to stay at home

"If a few politicians are not particularly happy that we are hosting the World Cup in Russia, then I always tell them: 'Well then, stay at home'," said Joseph Blatter, the president of FIFA, during a meeting to discuss the preparations for the 2018 World Cup in Russia (from 14/06 to 15/07/2018…

NBA: average attendance of 17,826 for the regular season (94% fill rate), a record for the league

21,926,548 spectators attended the 1,230 games of the 2014-15 regular season of the NBA, for an average crowd of 17,826 per game, announced the North American league on 16/04/2015. The total and average attendances are up 2.4% compared to the 2013-14 regular season (21,392,721 total attendance…

FIFA: "Democracy and football lose" at the CONCACAF Congress, according to Luis Figo

"When some speak and others are silenced, democracy and football lose (...) The candidates for the FIFA presidency were not allowed to speak in the CONCACAF congress but some campaigning interventions took place without being in the agenda," said Luis Figo, a candidate for presidency of FIFA, in…