Giving him responsibility for building the structures and commercial foundations of the country's emerging esports industry.

Charlton Athletic Women have set up a standalone club board ahead of their return to English football's top flight.

Diop was part of the team that launched the Basketball Africa League in 2021 and is currently Chief of Staff at Rugby Africa.

He led the launch of FIFA's Forward 3.0 cycle, a USD 2.25 billion development programme covering all 211 member associations.

He takes charge of a federation that, by his own account, draws close to 80 percent of its funding from FIFA.

Mensah has led Rugby Africa since March 2023.

The dissolution does not permanently remove the governing structures, and new boards are expected to be reconstituted in due course.

The ACG appointment is her second African sport board role in a matter of days.

SEED Project moves into what it calls SEED Academy Reimagined 2025-2030, a transformation plan touching governance, academic and athletic standards, student welfare, financing and expansion across the continent.

The new season kicked off on Friday, under an administrators nobody had heard of a week earlier, while the body meant to oversee the federation itself is still stuck in a leadership crisis of its own.

The new structure, formalises what The Jester Group describes as the way its different areas of expertise already operate under the Jester name.

His career spans sports and exercise medicine, anti-doping, elite athlete healthcare, medical education and hospital practice.

Col. Lungu is currently serving as Chief Executive Officer of Zambian Premier League side Red Arrows. Before his appointment as Chief Executive Officer, Col. Lungu served as Team Manager at Red Arrows.

He takes on partnership strategy, commercial development and rights consultancy for brands and rights holders, working across the agency's client portfolio while supporting new business across the region.

Since 2023 she had served as Third Vice-President on the executive committee of the Africa School Sport Federation, and has sat as an assessor on the ISF Executive Committee. A positioning that made her a credible continental candidate well before the Belgrade vote.

The former Sharks chief becomes the latest African executive to land a top job in European rugby.

For 56 years, one of African football's most valuable brands ran without a dedicated chief executive over its business. That changed this season, and the change matters more than the name attached to it.

Emenalo, the Nigerian-born former technical director at Chelsea and Monaco, was one of the highest-profile executive appointments in the SPL.

The South African outgoing CEO of the National Rugby League, will take charge of Australian tennis in August 2026, emerging from a global search that drew more than 150 candidates and was run by executive search firm Egon Zehnder.

It is one of the most significant executive moves in the global tennis business in years - and the case for it runs deeper than the commercial record he is best known for.