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Zinedine Zidane leads France for the first time as head coach on Friday, September 25, in a UEFA Nations League away match against Turkey at Kocaeli Stadium in İzmit. He succeeds Didier Deschamps, who had guided France for 14 years including the 2018 World Cup win, while Turkey looks to bounce back after an early group-stage exit at the World Cup.
An analysis of UEFA's new league-phase draw format found that certain groups of five clubs, such as Napoli, Benfica, Chelsea, Ajax and Qarabağ in the 2025-26 Champions League, end up playing nine of ten possible matchups against each other, far more than random chance would suggest. The same clustering pattern appears across multiple seasons and competitions, including the Europa League and Conference League. The study proposes replacing the current draw method with a mathematically symmetric structure called a Cayley graph on 36 vertices, which would provably eliminate such clusters with only a minor adjustment to the existing country-restriction rule.
Uefa has filed an application with a Florida court seeking access to records held by Fifa Americas and FWC2026 to support planned criminal proceedings in Switzerland against Fifa president Gianni Infantino. The European body alleges Infantino secretly arranged to sell stakes in Fifa's commercial rights for World Cups at an unverified, deliberately low price of $4.2bn, implying an enterprise value of only $20bn.