How big of a moment was the victory by the Canadian men's soccer team over the U.S. in CONCACAF Nations League play? Big. This was a statement game, the final result giving hope to legions of long-suffering soccer supporters that there...
FIFA president Gianni Infantino has called for “new, stronger and more effective ways to eradicate racism in football” after England players were subjected to abuse in Bulgaria. UEFA has charged the Bulgarian Football Union...
Flag-draped Iranian women watched a FIFA soccer match from inside a Tehran stadium Thursday, the first time they've been freely allowed into a stadium in decades.
The author and journalist James Montague is a Middle East football expert. He spoke to CNN World Sport's Don Riddell about why it's taken so long for Iraq to get back home, as well as Iranian women being able to officially enter a...
FIFA has fined Hong Kong's soccer federation 15,000 Swiss francs ($15,100 US) for fans disrespecting the Chinese national anthem before a World Cup qualifying game last month.
Following a sparsely attended world track and field championship questions are once again being raised over Qatar's ability to host the 2022 World Cup.
A series of rules changes would restrict the money — sometimes tens of millions of dollars in a single deal — that agents can earn when players switch teams.
Greenland crowns its national champion in the shortest season on earth, a year’s worth of matches, injuries, controversies and celebrations crammed into a single week.
Iranian football activist Maryam Shojaei urges FIFA to end the ban on female football fans being allowed to watch games in Iran, following the death of Sahar Khodayari.
We asked female footballers, from World Cup winners to amateurs, to send videos from a day in their lives to show how women around the world live the game.
RUSSIA 2018 All 32 teams will be in action in the opening week of the World Cup. How important is it to get off to a good start? We look into it. – Who will be crowned world champions? Stars from the worlds of music,...
FIFA Secretary General Fatma Samoura met with Inigo Mendez de Vigo, the Spanish Minister for Education, Culture and Sport, in Madrid on Tuesday 5 February. Also present at the meeting were Jose Ramon Lete, the president of the Spanish...
Marco Fazzone has been appointed as the Director of the FIFA World Football Museum. Fazzone, who is currently the Managing Director of Design & Regional Art Fairs of the MCH Group Ltd. in Basel, will take up the post in February 2018.
With Ange Postecoglou at the helm, Australia commenced 2017 at 44 on the FIFA/Coca-Cola World Ranking and facing a significant challenge to qualify for a fourth successive FIFA World Cup. Now they are flying high and bound for Russia, as...
The Bureau of the FIFA Council has decided, on 18 January 2018, to appoint a normalisation committee for the Kuwait Football Association (KFA) in accordance with article 8 paragraph 2 of the FIFA Statutes.