Olympiakos became the first Greek club to win a European title when they defeated Fiorentina 1-0 after extra time in the final of the Europa Conference League, UEFA's third-tier club competition.

FIFA and UEFA "abused their dominant position" by opposing the Super League, a semi-closed competition project that almost caused European football to implode in 2021, according to a Spanish court ruling that ordered them to stop their anti-competitive practices.

A Spanish court quashed bribery charges against Barcelona on Friday relating to a refereeing corruption scandal, and halted an investigation into president Joan Laporta. Former presidents Josep Maria Bartomeu and Sandro Rosell and others remain under investigation for alleged sporting corruption, after the club paid a former refereeing chief more than 7.3 million euros ($7.9 million) between 1994 and 2018, Agence France-Presse reported Friday.

Portugal's Porto have been fined $1.6 million by UEFA and face a one-season ban from European competition for unpaid debts.

Xabi Alonso's unstoppable Bayer Leverkusen will have an added incentive when they take on Roma at home in Thursday's Europa League semi-final: the chance to break a 59-year-old European football record.

Lyon of France defeated Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 on the road to win the semifinals 5-3 on aggregate. They will play defending champions Barcelona of Spain in the final.

Quarter-final wins for Atalanta and Roma in the Europa League, and Fiorentina in the Europa Conference League, means five sides from Serie A will play in next year's Champions League.

Oleksandr Zinchenko has said that he would quit his job with English side Arsenal to go to war in Ukraine if called up to fight for his country. He would go to war "if necessary" to defend Ukraine in the more than two-year conflict with Russia.

UEFA has reached a settlement with the Liverpool fans who claimed physical and psychological injuries at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris, the European governing body announced on Friday.

FairSquare, an organisation dedicated to ensuring better and more democratic governance, has sent a letter to the President of UEFA requesting immediate clarification of the rules and policies governing the suspension of teams from its competitions and the criteria applied to Russia and Israel.

Following the launch of the 'Get Trained, Save Lives' campaign last November, UEFA and the European Resuscitation Council (ERC) have today launched an interactive training module on get-trained.com - a dedicated platform that teaches football fans the basic skills of Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) in under four minutes.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin said on Thursday that he would not stand for re-election as head of the European governing body, despite the approval of legal reforms that would have allowed him to do so.

Spain was absent from a group of 26 European countries that signed a joint declaration against the controversial Super League football project.

This Thursday's UEFA Congress will take place in an unusually tense atmosphere. The European Court of Justice's ruling in favour of the Super League and Aleksander Ceferin's call for a reform of the statutes that would allow him to extend his term of office until a hypothetical 2031 will be at the forefront.

UEFA, in its first reaction to the ruling, claims that it "does not mean an endorsement or validation of the so-called 'Super League', while Real Madrid and Barcelona celebrate because 'European football will never be a monopoly again'