UEFA announced Olympiastadion in Munchen as the venue for this season’s biggest event in European women’s club football, the UEFA Women’s Champions League Final, to be played on Thursday 17 May. German women’s football legend Steffi Jones, Director of Girls & Women’s football at the German Football Association (DFB) and UEFA’s Women’s Football Development ambassador [...]
Almost 400,000 individual voters had their say in selecting the UEFA.com users‘ Team of the Year 2011 and the end product, announced today, is another team packed predominantly with Spain-based talent. Just as last year, eight Liga players feature in the Team of the Year and not surprisingly FC Barcelona, the reigning European champions, lead [...]
UEFA President, Michel Platini and INTERPOL Secretary General Ronald K. Noble identified a number of areas for co-operation between the two organisations in tackling football-related crimes, including match-fixing and violence in stadiums during a meeting at UEFA headquarters. Mr Platini and Mr Noble agreed to work on a memorandum of understanding to be signed in [...]
UEFA‘s Respect Fair Play ranking, based on all UEFA competition matches played, at both club and national team level, from 1 May 2011 to 30 April 2012, is currently headed by Norway. Taking into account matches up to 31 December 2011, leader Norway, second-placed Finland and third-placed Netherlands are leading the race for the three [...]
