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CLUB WORLD CUP – Al Ahly v Inter Miami.

SUN; Gp A: Palmeiras v Porto. Group B: PSG v Atletico Madrid. Group C: Bayern Munich v Auckland City ########


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CLUB WORLD CUP: We’re so proud of this, says clubs’ boss in backing Infantino project

MIAMI: Nasser Al-Khelaifi, chair of the European Club Association, has thrown the body’s full support behind the FIFA Club World Cup – president Gianni Infantino’s pet project – which kicks off this weekend in the United States. A statement from Al-Khelaïfi, who is also the […]


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FIFA WORLD CUP: Saudi Arabia and Qatar to host Asian qualifying showdowns

KUALA LUMPUR: The Asian Football Confederation has confirmed Qatar and Saudi Arabia as hosts for the autumn’s Asian World Cup qualifiers. Six teams, the third and fourth-placed sides – Indonesia, Iraq, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates – will be divided into […]


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Roll up, roll up! Club World Cup is FIFA’s own football theme park

JONATHAN SHALLARD REPORTING —- Florida, home of family-fun theme park extravaganzas, is an appropriate home for FIFA president Gianni Infantino to launch his pet project of a contentious, widely-derided, redefined Club World Cup. An argument can easily be made for a pinnacle event drawing in […]


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FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP: Who and how

MIAMI: The recreated FIFA Club World Cup in the United States over the next four weeks involves 32 clubs playing 63 matches in a standard format featuring eight four-team groups then a progressive knockout system leading up to the final in New York/New Jersey on […]


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FIS

FIS Council approves increased prize money, changes to discipline-specific regulations.—-Oberhofen am Thunersee, 13 June 2025 – During its meeting over the course of Thursday and Friday, the FIS Council engaged in a thorough discussion about how to sustainably increase athletes’ prize money and agreed on an […]


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US still top of FIFA women’s world ranking ahead of Spain and Germany

ZURICH: No fewer than 168 women’s international fixtures have been contested globally since 6 March this year, when the previous edition of the FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World Ranking was published. While the USA continue to lead the way three months on, there has been plenty of […]


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Nations League fan dies after falling from Allianz Arena stand

MUNICH: A fan died after falling from the second tier of a stand at the Allianz Arena in Munich during the UEFA Nations League final in which Portugal beat Spain. The supporter fell about eight meters from the centre of the second tier into a […]


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