The Championship season begins on Friday evening as Wolves host Blackburn Rovers, marking the wider return of the English Football League. The live blog will also follow transfer developments, preparations for the Community Shield and the latest dispute within Fifa, making it a broad roundup ahead of a busy football weekend.

Oceania’s football confederation has backed Fifa president Gianni Infantino after calls for his resignation from Uefa, Concacaf and the Asian Football Confederation. However, New Zealand has withdrawn its support and joined demands for an independent review of Fifa’s Forward Enterprise plan, underlining divisions over the proposed World Cup commercial sell-off.