MADRID: Atletico Madrid will challenge the amount Barcelona paid to acquite Antoine Griezmann’s transfer, Spanish media reported on Saturday. Sports daily AS said Atletico will go to FIFA, the governing body of…
PARIS: FIFA wants teams to automatically forfeit matches if their supporters are found to be guilty of racist and other discriminatory behaviour, world football’s governing body has announced. “Unless there are exceptional…
LYON: Criticism of FIFA President Gianni Infantino over the handling of sexual abuse investigations was “ill-informed and unjustified,” the governing body said Thursday after the coach of the Afghanistan women’s national team…
Fifa vice president Ahmad was detained and questioned by French authorities on Thursday in the latest criminal investigation to hit the governing body of world soccer, a day before the start of…
The long road to the 2022 World Cup finals begins in the footballing backwaters of Mongolia on Thursday as the first games that count towards qualification for Qatar are hosted in Asia.…
The seven-team club tournament, which will include European champion Liverpool this year, will be played in December and in December 2020, FIFA confirmed on Monday. “It is an amazing test competition for…
NEW DELHI: India set their sights on qualifying for the 2026 World Cup as Praful Patel became their first representative on the powerful FIFA Council on Saturday. Patel, one of six Asian delegates…
DOHA: FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s plan to expand the Qatar World Cup to 48 teams and increase the number of host countries risks worsening existing Gulf diplomatic tensions, claim analysts. The ambitious…
MELBOURNE: A refugee footballer who fled Bahrain and was held in a Thai prison for months has condemned Australia’s support for the re-election of Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Sheikh Salman bin…
ZURICH: Juventus forward Cristiano Ronaldo is facing disciplinary action for his celebration after one of the three goals he scored in last week’s 3-0 win over Atletico Madrid in the Champions League.…
DHAKA: Bangladesh authorities jailed a senior member of football’s world governing body on Saturday, hours after she was arrested for allegedly defaming the country’s leader. Mahfuza Akhter, a FIFA council member since…
ZURICH: FIFA warned the scandal-scarred Oceania Football Confederation on Saturday that it was on its “last opportunity” to clean up its act. The message was personally delivered by Gianni Infantino, the president…
ZURICH: West Ham midfielder Declan Rice is free to play for England after world governing body FIFA confirmed his switch from Ireland. The highly rated 20-year-old, who was born in London but…
LONDON: Premier League club Chelsea have been banned from signing new players in the next two transfer windows as punishment for breaking rules on registering under-age players, FIFA said on Friday. It means…
LAHORE: Spain’s Atletico Madrid are taking on a challenge tougher than winning La Liga ─ developing football in cricket-mad Pakistan, where bat and ball are king, pitches come with stumps not goalposts,…
KARACHI: Newly elected president of Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Syed Ashfaq Hussain Shah has requested FIFA to send a fact-finding committee to investigate matters that lead up to the elections in PFF…
ZURICH: A combined global audience of 1.12 billion watched the World Cup final between France and Croatia in July, FIFA, the governing body of world football, said on Friday. In total, FIFA…
