Football

Cyprus recorded the first win of their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign with a 1-0 victory over Slovenia at the GSP stadium in Nicosia on Tuesday night. Apollon star Ioannis Pittas ...

Sergio Aguero’s departure from Manchester City looks set to kick-start a “derby” between City and Manchester United for the signature of Europe’s hottest striking talent – Borussia Dortmund’s ...

Manchester City’s record goalscorer Sergio Aguero insists he is ready to face a new challenge at the highest level after his departure at the end of this season was ...

Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden is hopeful a large crowd will be able to attend the Euro 2020 final at Wembley but capacity is still to be determined. The showpiece match of ...

Poland suffered a massive blow ahead of this week’s crunch World Cup qualifier away to England when striker and talisman Robert Lewandowski was ruled out because of a knee ...

A Cristiano Ronaldo goal not given in a dramatic World Cup qualifier between Serbia and Portugal would have stood if the two football associations had agreed before the game to ...

France, Spain and England all enjoyed wins in World Cup qualifying on Sunday while Denmark smashed eight past Moldova. Italy and Germany are in action later on Sunday and will ...

Croatia got their 2022 World Cup qualifying campaign back on track after a first-half header by Mario Pasalic gave them a laboured 1-0 home win over Cyprus in Group H on ...

Cristiano Ronaldo stormed off the pitch before fulltime when he was denied a clear stoppage-time winner in a 2-2 draw in Serbia, while Belgium were held 1-1 by the Czech ...

Liverpool should fight right through to the end of the season rather than dwell on excuses for their dismal Premier League title defence, forward Sadio Mane said. Liverpool ripped up ...

England kicked off their World Cup qualifying campaign with a 5-0 thrashing of San Marino on Thursday as Dominic Calvert-Lewin scored twice and Ollie Watkins marked his debut with a ...

Holders France got their World Cup qualifying campaign off to a disappointing start with a 1-1 draw at home to Ukraine on Wednesday while Turkey pulled off an impressive 4-2 ...

The thought of a new World Cup qualifying campaign starting might bring traumatic memories flooding back in Italy. The four-time world champions’ last attempt to reach the competition ended in ...

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter has been handed a further six years and eight months ban from the game and fined a million Swiss francs by the body’s Ethics ...

Kevin De Bruyne insists Wales’ proud record against Belgium belongs to the past and has no bearing on their opening 2022 World Cup qualifier. De Bruyne believes Belgium are a far ...

Former Huddersfield, Leicester, Bolton and England striker Frank Worthington has died aged 72. One of English football’s great mavericks, Worthington died peacefully in hospital on Monday evening following a long ...

By Jamie Gardner, PA Chief Sports Reporter It is natural that the power dynamic between coaches and young players will continue to draw abusers to football, the head of the ...

The pressure intensified on Steve Bruce after Newcastle’s heavy defeat at Brighton although the Magpies remain outside the Premier League relegation zone after Fulham slipped up at home to ...

Lionel Messi celebrated becoming Barcelona’s highest appearance maker of all time by scoring twice as his rampant side crushed Real Sociedad 6-1 away in La Liga on Sunday with ...

Tottenham Hotspur emerged from the gloom of the past week to claim a morale-boosting 2-0 victory at Aston Villa and climb to sixth place in the Premier League on Sunday. ...

Leicester City’s Kelechi Iheanacho scored two poacher’s goals as they beat Manchester United 3-1 in their FA Cup quarter-final to set up a last-four clash with Southampton. The ...

Alexandre Lacazette’s late header completed a stunning Arsenal comeback as they recovered from a nightmarish start to grab an unlikely 3-3 draw away to West Ham United in a ...

Chelsea beat Sheffield United 2-0 on Sunday thanks to an own goal by Oliver Norwood and winger Hakim Ziyech’s late strike to reach the FA Cup semi-finals for the ...

Manchester United striker Marcus Rashford, who has influenced British government policy on food parcels for poor children, is seen kicking down Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s front door in a ...