UEFA has confirmed that it has been assisting the German authorities with their investigations following arrests connected to match-fixing and corruption allegations involving about 200 games.

The UEFA Appeals Body has replaced the three-point deduction handed to NK Dinamo Zagreb in the UEFA Europa League with a €75,000 fine and a suspended ban from the club competitions.

Holders Spain will be joined by Germany, Netherlands, Italy, England, Croatia, Portugal, France and Russia as top seeds for the UEFA EURO 2012™ qualifying draw in Warsaw on 7 February 2010.

In the midst of towering images of some of Spain's UEFA EURO 2008™ heroes, the 2010 UEFA Champions League final logo was launched at the aptly named City of Football in Madrid on Friday.

European titleholders FCR 2001 Duisburg will take on Arsenal LFC in the March quarter-finals while Montpellier Hérault SC will meet Umeå IK after the draw for the rest of the competition was made.

It was international week and European football produced its fair share of the worthy and unusual. uefa.com gets into a comfy chair and opens up its book of the best stories from the last seven days.

Liverpool FC have their backs to the wall in England, the front two meet in Ukraine while three emotional derbies should see passions rise as uefa.com previews the weekend's top domestic fixtures.

Juventus striker David Trezeguet will miss the last two games of the UEFA Champions League group stage against FC Girondins de Bordeaux and FC Bayern München after picking up a calf strain.

FC Zürich will be without Johan Vonlanthen for their Group C fixture against Real Madrid CF on Wednesday because of a thigh tear, although two other injured players have resumed training.

If FC Rubin Kazan overcome FC Zenit St. Petersburg on Saturday, they will claim a second successive Russian title and defender Roman Sharonov is determined "nobody should unsettle" his side.

Alberto Zapater was delighted to score the first UEFA Europa League goal, but his aim is to ensure Genoa CFC progress in the competition. "I came here to achieve great things for the team, not me," he said.

All four Elite round groups will be decided in Sunday's concluding games after today's Matchday 2 fixtures produced second wins for the favourites, though only holders Interviú Madrid have a points cushion in their section.

Replacing double European champion Foppe de Haan as Under-21 coach was always going to be a big task, but Cor Pot has risen to the challenge and he has the Netherlands thinking big once again.

Former Netherlands goalkeeper Henk Timmer has decided to hang up his gloves at the age of 37 following his release by Feyenoord in the summer, saying: "Football is over for me."

Coach Mihailo Ivanović recently led FK Budućnost Podgorica to a Montenegrin landmark eighth successive league win, but maintained that "football is not about records, it's about titles".

CS Grevenmacher lead the race to deny F91 Dudelange a sixth straight Luxembourgeois title, with coach Claude Osweiler noting that the title race is "maybe as open as it has ever been."

Finland coach Michael Käld, who led them in their first two majors tournaments in reaching the UEFA WOMEN'S EURO 2005™ semi-finals and this year's last eight, steps down on Saturday after 107 games in charge.

The uefa.com Magazine turns the spotlight on Genoa CFC and their return to European competition, speaking with Hernán Crespo, Alberto Zapater and coach Gian Piero Gasperini. Click to watch.

A convention creating a new Executive Master in European Sport Governance (MESGO) has been signed in Nyon, with the backing of academic bodies and team sport federations.

Olympique Lyonnais coach Claude Puel has rated Jérémy Toulalan as "very doubtful" for Tuesday's UEFA Champions League match at ACF Fiorentina as the midfielder recovers from a groin injury.