05 Feb 2013 09:18 - Thomas Escritt Hundreds of soccer matches have been fixed in a global betting scam in a blow to the image of soccer and a multibillion-dollar industry.
31 Aug 2012 07:56 - AFP Andres Iniesta has received the Uefa best player in Europe award after pipping Cristiano Ronaldo and club-mate Lionel Messi in a journalists' poll.
16 Jun 2012 18:53 - Reuters Uefa's disciplinary panel has decided to action against Croatia's Football Federation for racist chants by their fans against Italy.
12 Jan 2012 08:35 - Staff Reporter Uefa and international police liaison agency Interpol are teaming up to tackle match-fixing and violence in stadiums during the European Championship.
08 Dec 2011 14:13 - Staff Reporter Wayne Rooney's three-match ban at the Euro 2012 finals has been reduced to two, with the third ban to be carried over for four years.
02 Dec 2011 16:01 - Staff Reporter Five Ukrainian women have stripped off to protest what they say are plans to turn Ukraine into a 'Euro-brothel' during the 2012 European championship.
22 Aug 2011 12:21 - Staff Reporter Arsene Wenger was handed a two-match European ban or failing to abide by the conditions of a previous suspension against Udinese last week, Uefa says.
19 Aug 2011 16:56 - Rob Harris Uefa has opened disciplinary proceedings against Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger for breaching the terms of his Champions League touchline ban.
23 Jun 2011 08:01 - Talek Harris Asian players are easy prey for match-fixers, who are now so rampant they are believed to operate in nearly every Asian football league.
23 Jun 2011 07:02 - Staff Reporter A second incident of racism against Roberto Carlos, where a banana was thrown at him during a league match in Russia, is being investigated.
05 May 2011 15:25 - Staff Reporter A court has dismissed one of two cases filed against the president of the Croatian football federation because of his anti-gay comments.
29 Mar 2011 06:45 - Staff Reporter Fifa presidential candidate Mohamed Bin Hammam on Monday claimed Sepp Blatter has sullied the organisation's reputation.
05 Feb 2010 07:52 - Staff Reporter The Court of Arbitration of Sport (CAS) said on Thursday that Chelsea and French club Lens had settled their dispute over French player Gael Kakuta.
25 Nov 2009 14:56 - Graham Dunbar Football officials from nine countries have begun an emergency meeting with Uefa about Europe's biggest match-fixing investigation.
24 Nov 2009 08:16 - Staff Reporter Fifa has called an special general meeting following the Thierry Henry handball incident and an ongoing investigation into match-fixing in Europe.
20 Apr 2009 12:25 - Staff Reporter Juventus have apologised over the racist chanting directed at Inter Milan's teenage striker Mario Balotelli at Turin's Stadio Olimpico on Saturday.
26 Mar 2009 14:33 - Staff Reporter Danny Jordaan's briefing to the Uefa congress in Copenhagen on Thursday was positively received by some of the key figures in world soccer.
05 Jun 2008 08:04 - Axel Bugge European soccer's governing body, Uefa, excluded Porto from next season's Champions League on Wednesday.
27 May 2008 11:21 - Ossian Shine Fifa president Sepp Blatter will forge ahead with plans to curb the number of foreign players at soccer clubs, saying on Tuesday that the organisation should coral the world of sport into helping make it happen. The Swiss head of world soccer's governing body insisted that Fifa would not be "going into confrontation" with any employment laws.
23 May 2008 09:41 - Jonathan Steele There were tears and sweat aplenty in Moscow's Luzhniki stadium on Wednesday, but barely any blood. English fans kept calm. Russia's police avoided running amok. The result was that stereotypes of Russia as a harsh forbidding place lost another chunk of credibility, and its quest to be treated as a "normal" country on the post-Cold War stage advanced a further step.
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