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FIFA president Gianni Infantino insisted Iran would play World Cup matches in the United States, as the soccer governing body’s Congress opened on Thursday without the country’s delegation, ...

Fifa should press the US government to establish an “ICE Truce” for this year’s World Cup, including a public guarantee from federal authorities to refrain from immigration enforcement operations ...

Two Republican members of Congress are calling on the Trump administration to empower the National Guard to address potential drone-related threats and ensure a “unified federal security posture” at the ...

Former MLS MVP Taylor Twellman wants Fifa to implement mandatory concussion substitution rules worldwide, warning that inconsistent protocols among the 48 nations competing in this year’s World Cup could put ...

FIFA responded to backlash over high ticket costs for the 2026 World Cup by introducing a new $60 pricing tier on Tuesday. Tickets are being made available at that reduced price for ...

A new proposal from the Trump administration would require visitors to the US to provide five years of social media activity for review as a condition of entry. The news ...

Many would have thought that President of Fifa, Gianni Infantino was joking when, earlier in the week, he announced his new idea, the ‘Fifa Peace Prize – Football Unites the World.” ...

Israel’s continued participation in international football has to be dealt with first and foremost by European governing body UEFA, FIFA vice-president Victor Montagliani said on Wednesday. UEFA was expected ...

A 47-year-old man from Liverpool who was arrested on suspicion of racially abusing Bournemouth player Antoine Semenyo has been conditionally bailed and banned from attending soccer matches, Merseyside Police said ...

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and France soccer great Michel Platini were both cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court on Tuesday, two and a half years after they ...

Cypriot footballers file more appeals against their clubs than players in any other EU country, it was revealed at the FifPro legal conference in the Netherlands from March 5 to March 6. ...

The Cyprus Football Association (CFA) celebrated its 90th anniversary on Tuesday evening with an event in Limassol, in the presence of Uefa president Aleksander Čeferin and with a message from ...

A players’ union, the European leagues’ group and Spain’s LaLiga accused Fifa of “abuse” on Monday as they filed a joint complaint about the governing body’s international match ...

FIFPRO have started legal action against world soccer’s governing body FIFA over the expanded men’s Club World Cup, the global players’ union said on Thursday. In May, FIFA ...

World soccer governing body FIFA has been urged to review plans of hosting a 32-team Club World Cup at the end of next season or face legal action from global ...

This year’s Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand is on track to become the most attended standalone women’s sporting event ever with over one million ...

Sepp Blatter, the former president of FIFA, said he had been unable to protect soccer from political and business interference in an interview with German weekly Die Zeit. Blatter, who ...

Iran coach Carlos Queiroz lambasted German soccer icon Juergen Klinsmann for criticising his team’s World Cup conduct, calling his remarks a “disgrace to football” and urging him to quit ...

Bars and cafes expecting a spike in bookings Twelve years after former Fifa president Sepp Blatter announced Qatar as a host, the World Cup is finally underway. An event that ...

FIFA president Gianni Infantino accused critics of World Cup host Qatar‘s treatment of migrant workers of hypocrisy on Saturday, adding that engagement was the only way to improve human ...

For the first time in its 92-year history, the football World Cup, which opens today in Qatar, will kick off in November. It will be the first time the tournament ...

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic Republic sparked by the death of a woman in the ...

India’s football association has asked world governing body FIFA to lift the suspension imposed on it after the mandate of a court-appointed committee to govern the sport in the ...

A Swiss appeals court found former FIFA Secretary General Jerome Valcke guilty of forging documents and accepting bribes in a case involving World Cup media rights, it said on Friday. ...