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Football, motorsport, athletics and the business of professional sport.
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Financial fair play is an accounting limit, not a spending cap. Here is how the £105m rule works, how a breach turns into a points deduction, and what the new squad cost ratio changes.
Sixteen teams became eight in Shanghai. The full group stage standings, the five who survived the elimination round, and the bracket from 20 to 23 August.
A federal rule written to end stadium subsidies guaranteed them instead. To keep the tax break, at least 90% of the debt must be repaid from something other than the stadium.
Deadline day looks like chaos. It is the visible end of a year-round process governed by registration rules, instalment payments and financial regulation.
