Following two years of trials and training the Transfer Matching System (TMS) comes into effect on Friday 1 October. The initiative harnesses modern electronic technology with the aim of making international transfers more transparent and protecting minors. But how will it work? FIFA.com has all the details on what is a major step forward in the regulating of international football transfers.

Chelsea and Ivory Coast footballer Didier Drogba today has had the new Levallois Sporting Club stadium in Paris named after him.



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Top La Liga clubs including Real Madrid and Barcelona may be close to a deal under which TV income would be shared more equitably, according to the president of the professional football league (LFP).

Online betting company Betfair is launching an online campaign giving its customers the chance to go head-to-head in a penalty shootout at both Old Trafford and Camp Nou.



Middlesbrough-based consumer financial services organisation, Ramsdens, has signed four-month sponsorship deal with English Championship soccer club Middlesbrough F.C.

The largest family-owned pawnbroker in the UK, Ramsdens has backed the club’s unique shirt sponsorship initiative by signing a four-month, six-figure deal, making it the club’s biggest front of shirt sponsor this season.

A few days after the qualification of France Women Team for World Cup 2011, the FFF (Federation Francaise de Football) is launching a promotional campaign “Football in the Feminine” for the general public in collaboration with Adriana Karembeu, ambassador of the sport.

Arsenal today announced record pre-tax profits of £56m and said that the property built as part of the move to the Emirates stadium, the Highbury Square development, is now debt free and making money for the club.

Adidas has enlisted the help of Steven Gerrard to inspire teenagers to participate in sport and promote its sponsorship of the London 2012 Games.

The Digicel Caribbean Cup 2010 kicks off in Puerto Rico on October 2nd and then travels to St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname and the Dominican Republic to complete the first stage of the tournament.