SaturdaySeptember 12
EUROPE:Top-flight football
returns to England and Spain
with the kick-offs of the
2020-21 Premier League
and La Liga seasons.
THAILAND:Domestic action
returns to Thailand for the first
time in more than six months as
the Thai League1 gets underway.
SOUTH AFRICA:Mamelodi
Sundowns complete an historic
treble by beating Bloemfontein
Celtic1-0 in the final of South
Africa’s Nedbank Cup.
SundaySeptember 13
BRAZIL:Chapecoense are
crowned champions of the
2020 Catarinense State
Championship after beating
Brusque1-0 (3-0 on aggregate),
nearly four years after the plane
crash that devastated the club.
MondaySeptember 14
NETHERLANDS:Feyenoord
become the latest club to sign
up to a behind-the-scenes
documentary, which will be
shown on Disney+.
ASIA:The AFC Champions
League resumes, with reigning
champions Al Hilal defeating
Pakhtakor of Uzbekistan 2-1
with a 97th-minute winner.Global diary
Stories from the four corners of the football world
TuesdaySeptember 15
SOUTH AMERICA:The Copa
Libertadores restarts six months
after it was first postponed by
the coronavirus pandemic.
ENGLAND:Jack Grealish signs
a new contract at Aston Villa, as
does striker and captain Pierre-
Emerick Aubameyang at Arsenal.
SCOTLAND:Anthony Stokes
is released by Livingston just
four weeks after signing.
WednesdaySeptember 16
ENGLAND:English National
League side Macclesfield Town
are issued a winding-up order.
ITALY:Juventus boss Andrea Pirlo
completes his coaching badges,
finishing second in his class.
GERMANY:RB Leipzig contact
FIFA, alleging that Leeds United
owe them€21 million for the
transfer ofJean-Kevin Augustin.
SUDAN:Afteralmostsixmonths
of stoppage due to coronavirus,
the 2019-20 Sudan Premier
League resumes with
matchday 26 fixtures.
ThursdaySeptember 17
USA:MLS expansion team
St. Louis City SC set a new
league record by receiving
50,000 season-ticket
deposits on their first day.FIFA:The latest FIFA rankings are
revealed, with Belgium remaining
top. Russia are the biggest movers,
moving six up places.
FRANCE:Former France defender
Daniel Charles-Alfred dies.
FridaySeptember 18
ITALY:American tycoon Kyle
Krause acquires a 90 per cent
stake ownership of Parma.
GERMANY:Defender Neven
Subotic leaves Union Berlin
after spending11 of his last
12 seasons in the Bundesliga.
SaturdaySeptember 19
ITALY:Italian regions begin to
open stadiums to small crowds.
EGYPT:Al Ahly extend their run
of Egyptian league titles to five by
winning the 2019-20 campaign- their 42nd in their history.
SundaySeptember 20
CAMEROON:Ephrem M’Bom,
left-back at the1982 World
Cup, passes away.
USA:In Montreal Impact’s
clash with Philadelphia Union,
Romell Quioto scores after
five minutes, then gets sent
off ten minutes later.
TUNISIA:Esperance win their
fifth Tunisian Super Cup title,
beating rivals CS Sfaxien 5-4 on
penalties after a goalless draw.
ENGLAND:Manchester City
midfielder Ilkay Gundogan tests
positive for COVID-19.
MondaySeptember 21
VIETNAM:HanoiFCwin
the Vietnamese Cup final with
an 88th-minute winner to
defeat Viettel 2-1.
SIERRA LEONE:The government
and football association jointly
announce that both the men
and women’s teams will
receive equal pay.
ITALY:Referee Daniele De Santis
is found dead in his apartment,
along with his partner.
PORTUGAL:Sporting
rename their youth academy
the ‘Academia Cristiano Ronaldo’.
Meanwhile, former Boavista and
Portugal midfielderJaime Alves
passes away aged 55.
TuesdaySeptember 22
ITALY:Serie C players announce
thattheywillgoonstrikein
protest at the introduction
of 22-man squads.
CONCACAF:It’s announced
that the CONCACAF Nations
League semi-finals and final,
will be moved from March
to June 2021 in the USA.
ENGLAND:West Ham manager
David Moyes, plus Hammers
players Issa Diop andJosh Cullen,
all test positive for COVID-19.
WednesdaySeptember 23
ASIA:Defending champions
Al Hilal are kicked out of the
AFC Champions League after
coronavirus forces them to name
a starting line-up of just nine
players with two goalkeepers
on the substitutes’ bench.
GERMANY:Mainz players
boycott training in protest over
the treatment of team-mate
Adam Szalai, who was told to
train away from the first team
after being transfer listed.
PORTUGAL:The world’s richest
footballer, Faiq Bolkiah – son
of the Prince of Brunei with
an estimated net worth of
$20 billion – joins Maritimo.
ENGLAND:Kai Havertz scores
his first Chelsea goals with
a hat-trick in a 6-0 EFL Cup
third round victory against
Championship side Barnsley.
ThursdaySeptember 24
HUNGARY:Bayern beat Sevilla
2-1 after extra-time in the UEFA
Super Cup. Leon Gortezka cancels
out Lucas Ocampos’ third-Comeback...The
Copa Libertadores
returned in
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Villa’sJack
Grealish