Sevilla has become the first top-flight football club to sell small squares within each player’s number on the back of their shirts featuring a photo of the buyer

French Ligue 1 side Olympique de Marseille have launched a new shirt which was created and chosen by fans. The winning shirt was created by Marseille fan Mathieu.

To celebrate the launch of FIFA 12, EA SPORTS are creating the world’s longest football fan scarf – and you can represent your club on the record-breaking scarf.

An investigation into how the Man Utd has transformed itself into a £1.2billion franchise shows why the much-maligned Glazer family, who bought the club in 2005 and saddled it with huge debts, have hung on.

Major League Soccer has surpassed the NBA and NHL in attendance and is now the third-most attended professional sport in America on a per-game basis.

Berlin’s second football club, 1. FC Union, is reinforcing its anti-commercial credentials by selling shares in its famous Alte Försterei stadium to its supporters. Sound like a paradox? Not to the fans.

Soccer fans in the Baltimore area have begun receiving an email survey from Major League Soccer gauging their interest in a team in their city

Manchester City FC has launched Sky Blue – the club’s first ever international membership programme, with specific benefits for fans in the UAE.

Football clubs social media ranking in October 2011, showing the number of Twitter “followers” and Facebook “likes” (official club accounts)

Football clubs social media ranking in September 2011, showing the number of Twitter “followers” and Facebook “likes” (official club accounts). The chart presented below show the number of Twitter “followers” and Facebook “likes” for each football club.

The teams are ranked by their combined number of fans across the two sites. We only tracked the sites / account identified as “official”.