Football

Romelu Lukaku will return to Inter Milan on a one-year loan deal, the PA news agency understands. Inter chiefs are thought to have struck an 8 million euro loan fee with ...

Ryan Giggs has expressed his sadness that he will not be at the 2022 World Cup after standing down as Wales manager with immediate effect. Giggs has been on leave from ...

Chelsea chairman Bruce Buck will step down at the end of June after 19 years in the role, the Premier League club said on Monday. American lawyer Buck, who was appointed ...

West Ham boss David Moyes and captain Declan Rice have been banned by UEFA for one and two matches respectively following the club’s Europa League defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt. ...

Bayern Munich have agreed terms with Liverpool to sign Sadio Mane, British media reported on Friday. German champions Bayern will pay a fee in the region of 35 million pounds for ...

North America’s historical ambivalence to football is no match for the spectacle of the 2026 World Cup, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said on Thursday, as he bids to make the ...

Premier League champions Manchester City will begin the defence of their title at West Ham in the final match of the opening weekend’s fixtures. Pep Guardiola’s side will ...

The Premier League has stated match postponements for player unavailability will only be granted in “truly exceptional” circumstances from next season. From the start of the 2022-23 campaign, clubs will ...

Gareth Southgate believes his young players will not suffer lasting damage from a “chastening and painful” Nations League defeat to Hungary – calling for his critics to judge his side when ...

Liverpool have signed Darwin Nunez after the Uruguayan forward completed his medical following his move from Benfica, the Premier League club announced on Tuesday. Portuguese side Benfica had announced on ...

Qatar plans to pitch 1,000 “Bedouin style” tents in the desert for World Cup soccer fans, organisers said on Tuesday, as the state hopes to attract 1.2 million visitors, nearly half of ...

New Burnley manager Vincent Kompany is excited by the challenge of getting the club back into the Premier League. The former Manchester City and Belgium captain takes over from caretaker ...

Zinedine Zidane will replace Mauricio Pochettino as Paris St Germain coach next season, French radio station Europe 1 reported on Friday without citing any source. PSG were not immediately available for ...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah was named the Professional Footballers’ Association (PFA) Player of the Year for the second time on Thursday and Chelsea’s Sam Kerr took the women’s ...

The official in charge of policing at last month’s Champions League final has conceded the operation was a “failure” and appeared to back-track on previous claims that the majority ...

England manager Gareth Southgate shrugged off criticism of his side’s winless start to their Nations League campaign and said he will not let his decision-making be influenced by reaction ...

Former Arsenal forward Alexandre Lacazette has rejoined Lyon on a three-year deal. The 31-year-old former France international was a free agent after seeing out his contract with the Premier League ...

Gareth Bale said Wales must learn the “dark arts” to break up play when necessary after his side conceded a late winner at home to the Netherlands in the Nations ...

Liverpool have rejected a bid worth up to £30 million for Sadio Mane from Bayern Munich, the PA news agency understands. The Reds were unhappy with the nature of the offer, ...

The trial of former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and French footballing legend Michel Platini over alleged corrupt payments ground to a halt on Wednesday when Blatter said he was too ...

England were spared a second successive Nations League defeat as Harry Kane’s 50th goal for his country, a coolly-taken late penalty, salvaged a 1-1 draw away to Germany on ...

Australia and their embattled coach Graham Arnold live to fight another day. The Socceroos’ 2-1 win against the United Arab Emirates in Doha on Tuesday keeps them in the hunt ...

Paris St Germain forward Kylian Mbappe is the most valuable player in the world, according Swiss research group CIES Football Observatory, followed by Real Madrid’s Vinicius Jr and new ...

Qatar plans to re-install a sculpture immortalising French-Algerian player Zinedine Zidane’s head butt during the 2006 World Cup final, which had been removed in 2013 amid a domestic backlash, the head ...