Football

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 ...

Online racist abuse directed towards Black players in the England team after last year’s European Championship final has further complicated preparations for penalty shootouts, England manager Gareth Southgate said. ...

Ian Baraclough insisted he could handle the criticism which will come his way after Northern Ireland’s latest Nations League setback as he called for patience with a young squad ...

Argentina striker Lionel Messi scored five goals in a 5-0 friendly win over Estonia on Sunday, a result which helped him overtake Hungary’s great Ferenc Puskas among the all-time ...

Wales ended their 64-year wait for a place in the World Cup finals as they beat Ukraine 1-0 on Sunday to end the war-torn nation’s hopes of reaching Qatar. ...

Gareth Southgate admits he is “surprised” by the number of Hungary fans who will be in attendance for England’s behind-closed-doors Nations League clash in Budapest. There are expected to ...

Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah said he would trade all the individual honours he won this season for a chance to replay last Saturday’s 1-0 Champions League final defeat by ...