Football Federation Australia is "ramping up" preparations for the AFC Asian Cup 2015 with the appointment of new members of the Local Organising Committee (LOC). The tournament is the pinnacle event of the 46 nation Asian Football Confederation, the largest affiliated continental constituent of the world football body, FIFA.

Shebby Singh, former Malaysian defender and current football pundit on ESPN-Star, has accepted the position of Head - Football Development India/Asia at English Premier League club Blackburn Rovers. Back in June, he praised Indian firm Venky's take-over of Blackburn as fundamentally different from other recent changes in EPL club ownership, thanks to their plans of launching an academy and a

According to a new survey, companies that invest in sponsorship outperform those that don't and companies that spend at above average rates on sponsorship ('super sponsors') also outperform those that spend at below average rates. The survey, led by Professor Jonathan A. Jensen of Columbia College Chicago and published by the International Journal of Sports Marketing and Sponsorship, analysed 50

Sangmu Phoenix, the South Korean military football club playing in the country's professional K-League, could be expelled or relegated to a proposed new second division because of the ongoing match-fixing scandal plaguing the the Korea Football Association. The team's coach was arrested this week for allegedly accepting money from the parents of a player to keep quiet about their son's role in

Taiwan's national football team has been invited to play a friendly against Singapore on 18 July, following its impressive 3-2 defeat of Malaysia in a recent 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifier. Although Taiwan failed to advance to the second round due to insufficient aggregate goals, new coach Lee Tae Ho, a retired South Korean national footballer, said the enthusiasm shown by the more than 15,000

England's Liverpool Echo imagined what sort of mania home town music heroes, The Beatles, could have generated in the China of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution to describe the fan interest that Liverpool Football Club enjoyed during its recent exhibition game against Sunray Cave FC in the southern Chinese city of Guangdong.

A four-year partnership agreement between the Football Association of Singapore and the Football Association of Malaysia will see an exchange of youth-based clubs in their respective domestic leagues and cup tournaments from 2012. Singapore will be represented in the Malaysian Super League, Malaysia Cup and FA Cup by the Singapore Lions, a team comprised of U-23 national players, five players

The Western India Football Association, in its centenary year, has embarked on a program of qualifying 5,000 AIFF (All India Football Federation) certified coaches in the next three years. "There are currently 30 districts affiliated to WIFA, with more than 2000 clubs, 1500 school teams and around 500 college teams playing the sport," SportzPower reported.

The world football body, FIFA, has acknowledged the elections of a new Executive Committee of the Indonesia Football Association (PSSI) on 9 July 2011 and the election of Djohar Arifin Husin as the new PSSI president. According to a statement published on the FIFA website, the "elective congress, observed by FIFA, AFC and AFF, was conducted in accordance with the PSSI statutes and the FIFA

The Chinese Football Association's National Team will return to the screens of China Central Television after the state-owned broadcaster signed a three-and-half year contract with the CFA's commercial partner, China Football Industry Development Company/World Sport Group. CCTV's engagement with CFA Team China will begin with the FIFA World Cup 2014 qualifying match against Laos in Kunming on

The world football body, FIFA, reports that its 2010 World Cup in South Africa was broadcast in every single country and territory on Earth, "including Antarctica and the Arctic Circle", generating record-breaking viewing figures in many TV markets around the world. "The in-home television coverage of the competition reached over 3.

Scarred by its worst match-fixing scandal in its 28-year history, South Korea's 16-team, professional K-League will split into two divisions and move to a relegation and promotion system from 2013. Under the new system, the K-League will punish any club that has players found guilty of match rigging by deducting points earned from league games, by depriving clubs the right to compete in the AFC

An innovative joint marketing effort by the All India Football Federation and the Pakistan Football Federation, will promote football to over 2 million of their countries' compatriates and their decendents living in England. The series, to run from 25 August to 11 September with matches scheduled (but not yet confirmed) in Manchester, Coventry and London, is the first between the two teams at a

Robbie Fowler, still the fourth-highest goalscorer in the history of the English Premier League despite retiring from that competition towards the end of 2008, has signed a one-year contact with defending Thai Premier League champions Muang Thong FC for a reported fee of $660,000. This will make him the highest paid player in Thailand's professional league.

Keir Radnedge, editor for Sports Features Communications and chairman of the Football Commission of the International Sports Press Association, has uncovered the identity of the 'whistelblower' who alledged that Qatar had paid $1.5 million to three members of the FIFA Executive Committee to secure their votes for the hosting of the 2022 World Cup.