Football

Patrick Vieira admits he can scarcely believe Arsenal have gone nearly two decades without winning the Premier League title. Vieira won three championships in a nine-season spell with the Gunners ...

Brentford stung Chelsea as the Bees ended an 83-year wait for victory over their west London neighbours. Liverpool and Manchester City won to remain on course for a huge title ...

Tottenham Hotspur moved into the Premier League top four after a second-half blitz of goals from Matt Doherty, Son Heung-min, Emerson Royal and Steven Bergwijn fired them to an emphatic 5...

Newcastle boss Eddie Howe has urged his players to reset ahead of a nine-game mini-season as they attempt to finally kill off their Premier League relegation fears. Those members of ...

England manager Gareth Southgate’s luck of the draw appeared to strike again for this winter’s World Cup finals in Qatar. The Three Lions have been placed in Group ...

Manchester City moved back to the top of the Premier League standings with a convincing 2-0 win at relegation-threatened Burnley on Saturday. Needing a win to reclaim top spot after ...

Liverpool turned up the title race pressure on Manchester City as they went top of the Premier League table for the first time since September with a 2-0 win over ...

Senegal and Holland will open the 2022 World Cup finals on November 21, with hosts Qatar having to wait until later in the day for their big moment. It will be the ...

Global heavyweights were pitted head-to-head and intriguing political storylines drawn as the schedule for the 2022 World Cup was completed at a glitzy ceremony in the Qatari capital on Friday. Four ...

Chelsea manager Thomas Tuchel said on Friday he expects discussions over the Premier League club’s sale to intensify over the coming weeks, but he was unsure if he should ...

England manager Gareth Southgate said they can win the World Cup in Qatar but will have to be “close to perfect” to do so. England were semi-finalists at the 2018 World ...

Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will learn on Friday their opponents for what is almost certainly their last World Cup finals when the draw is made for November’s tournament ...

Premier League clubs voted in favour of reintroducing the use of five substitutes per game from the start of the 2022-23 season at a shareholder meeting, the organisation said on ...

Gianni Infantino has stepped sharply back from hotly contested plans for a biennial World Cup, telling world soccer’s leadership that FIFA had never proposed such an idea. The FIFA ...

The United States and Mexico both booked tickets to this year’s World Cup in Qatar in the final round of CONCACAF qualifying on Wednesday. The United States, who missed ...

FIFA officials will look to put aside division and controversy and turn the focus to this year’s World Cup finals when they hold their annual congress in the Qatari ...

A teenager has been jailed for six weeks for racially abusing Marcus Rashford on Twitter after the Euro 2020 final, the Crown Prosecution Service has said. Justin Lee Price, 19, of Grandison ...

England players showed their support for Harry Maguire after the defender was booed by a section of fans during Tuesday’s 3-0 friendly win over Ivory Coast, with Jordan Henderson ...

Portugal’s Bruno Fernandes scored twice as they beat stubborn visitors North Macedonia 2-0 to qualify for the World Cup finals in Qatar after a tense European playoff tie on ...

Netherlands head coach Louis van Gaal has warned Ajax Amsterdam’s Erik ten Hag against taking up the manager’s role at Manchester United, urging him to choose a football ...

Cristiano Ronaldo has urged local fans to make their presence felt at Porto’s Dragao stadium on Tuesday when Portugal host giant-killers North Macedonia in a playoff tie that will ...

Argentine football fans should enjoy Lionel Messi while they can and stop worrying about whether the seven-time Ballon d’Or winner will retire from international soccer after this year’s ...

Christian Eriksen said he made his return to international football in the “perfect way” by scoring two minutes after coming on for Denmark on Saturday following a near-fatal heart attack ...

Canada qualified for the World Cup finals for just the second time on Sunday, beating Jamaica 4-0 to book their ticket to Qatar and end 36 years of failure and heartache. ...