Manchester City are hoping to conquer more than just the Premier League this season with the release of Blue Moon Rising, a behind-the scenes documentary that details City’s first season under Abu Dhabi control and contains interviews with players, staff and fans

Milan’s wage bill is now the biggest in Serie A with Silvio Berlusconi’s club spending an annual €130 million sum – overtaking Inter by €10m.

La Gazzetta dello Sport conducted a detailed study of Italy’s biggest spenders, with Milan taking the lead when it comes to drilling deep into figures.

Wayne Rooney’s latest sex shame could potentially cost him millions in lost sponsorship deals.

Rooney earns £100,000 a week at Manchester United, but his income is heavily boosted by commercial endorsements worth millions.

Many international football teams participating in international competitions are sponsored but the names of these sponsors are not seen on the front of the shirts worn by the players in international matches.

Manchester United and Liverpool sell more official replica football shirts, for Nike and Adidas respectively, than any other teams in the English Premier League, and both are at or close to the top of the global merchandise sales tables according to multi-year research by a leading German consultancy, released to sportingintelligence for publication for the first time today.

A graphic showing the top 10 shirt sellers in club football is published our features section today, depicting the headline findings on shirt sales by Dr Peter Rohlmann and his team at the consulting bureau, PR Marketing.

German soccer clubs may tap into revenue from the nation’s 7.8-billion euro ($10 billion) betting market when the European Court of Justice decides on the legality of the nation’s sports gambling laws next week.

Sharp will be the seventh global partner for UEFA EURO 2012 and, as part of UEFA’s EUROTOP programme, will sponsor other top national team competitions until the end of 2013.

20|20’s longstanding relationship with Arsenal FC continues as the club officially opened their new look and redeveloped Club Level at the Emirates Stadium last weekend in time for the first Premier League home game of the season against Blackpool.

Even with City’s £125million spending spree, overall English Premier League summer transfer window spending of £350million is at its lowest level since 2006, and down 22 per cent on last year.

A reduction in CO2 emissions of almost 60% is feasible with respect to the most advanced stadiums currently in existence. It would even be possible to achieve energy neutrality using wind energy within the stadium’s surrounding areas. These are the latest research results released by utility company Eneco on behalf of Stadion Feijenoord NV.