By: Frank Dalleres

Sports Editor Frank Dalleres is Sports Editor of City AM. He has almost two decades' experience covering the business of sport and has reported from Olympic Games and major international football, rugby union, tennis and golf competitions, both at home and abroad. Get in touch with stories and tip-offs and follow him on X at @frankdalleres

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T100 Triathlon finale still set for Qatar despite Saudi race postponement

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The T100 Triathlon World Tour is pushing ahead with plans to stage its season finale in Qatar next month despite postponing a race in Saudi Arabia. Conflict in the Middle East has plunged numerous sports events into uncertainty and this week caused organisers to shelve plans for the Saudi T100 in Jeddah on 27 and [...]
Fifa and Infantino face subpoenas after Democrats blitz Trump in US midterms

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Fifa and Gianni Infantino face being issued with subpoenas over their ties to Donald Trump after Democrats routed the US President’s administration in the midterm elections. The Democrats’ majority in the House of Representatives hands them legal powers to compel testimony after Fifa and Infantino ignored previous attempts to investigate the close relationship between football’s [...]
FAs urged to challenge Infantino Fifa term limit at Court of Arbitration for Sport

Sport Business

The FA and other football associations have been urged to take their attempts to oust Gianni Infantino as Fifa president to the Court of Arbitration for Sport. Infantino has resisted all calls to stand down in the wake of his World Cup sell-off plan and is currently set to stand unopposed for re-election early next [...]

Team USA explores sale of commercial rights ahead of LA2028 Olympics

November 3, 2026

US Olympic chiefs have confirmed they are exploring the possible sale of a stake in Team USA’s commercial rights. The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee has engaged sport’s go-to brokers the Raine Group to explore a range of possible fundraising options, Mark Kleinman reported for Sky News. “The next decade represents an unprecedented opportunity for [...]
Football Australia sued by players over Socceroos and Matildas pay

November 3, 2026

Australia’s men’s and women’s national football teams, the Socceroos and Matildas, are suing their football association in a seven-figure pay dispute. The claim is being brought by the player union Professional Footballers Australia against governing body Football Australia and has reached the New South Wales Supreme Court. PFA is reported to be arguing that FA [...]
Shakhtar Donetsk on playing in London, Russian rockets and ‘Invest in Ukraine’

November 2, 2026

Shakhtar Donetsk have set up shop in London at Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge to show the world that Ukraine remains open for business despite five years of aggression from Russia, their CEO tells City AM. Serhii Palkin, the long-serving CEO of Shakhtar Donetsk, has just joined our call when the grim reality of trying to run [...]
Aston Villa drop Carragher legal action threat after pundit’s apology for X-rated rant

November 2, 2026

Aston Villa have dropped their threat to sue Jamie Carragher for “unacceptable insults” to the club and fans after the TV pundit apologised for his remarks. Carragher infuriated Villa chiefs last week by saying the club’s supporters should “shut the f*** up” and recognise that their manager, Unai Emery, might be tempted by the prospect [...]
Russia wins legal bid to come in from the cold in international ice hockey

October 30, 2026

Russia’s controversial bid to be allowed back into global sport has made further inroads after it won a legal battle with the International Ice Hockey Federation. The Court of Arbitration for Sport announced today that it has upheld an appeal from the Russian Ice Hockey Federation against its ban from international competitions on safety and [...]
CVC-backed Global Sport Group raids WBD as Allera reunites with Georgiou

October 30, 2026

Global Sport Group, the vehicle for CVC’s investments in football, rugby union and tennis, has poached Andrew Georgiou from Warner Bros Discovery to be its CEO. The move sees Georgiou, who led TNT Sports’ entry into the UK as president of WBD Sports Europe, reunite with GSG chair Marc Allera, who was CEO of BT’s [...]
Are Manchester City too big to fail? Here’s what economic modelling says

October 30, 2026

Exclusive economic modelling for City AM assesses whether Manchester City are too big to fail and whether a contagion threat should be factored into any punishment of the club. You have to go back to 1984 and the US state rescue of Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company to pinpoint the moment that “too [...]

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