New Delhi: Talismanic Indian football captain Sunil Chhetri was on Monday picked among 28 past and present stars for world governing body FIFA’s campaign to combat...
Geneva: The future of soccer could be fewer games and fewer top competitions to help avoid a financial crisis, FIFA president Gianni Infantino said in a...
Paris: With football having ground to a halt because of the coronavirus pandemic, the usual transfer rumour mill has fallen silent and nobody cares much where...
Kolkata: Legendary Indian footballer and coach Pradip Kumar (PK) Banerjee passed away on Friday after prolonged illness. He was under medical supervision at a nursing home....
Asuncion: South American football’s governing body CONMEBOL said on Thursday it will ask FIFA to delay the start of the region’s qualification campaign for the 2022...
Paris: FIFA president Gianni Infantino has proposed delaying next year’s revamped 24-team Club World Cup in China after UEFA postponed the European Championship until 2021 because...
Paris: FIFA has recommended that all international football matches scheduled for March and April be postponed due to the spread of the new coronavirus. Falling short...
Paris: FIFA has delayed upcoming South American World Cup qualifiers due to the coronavirus crisis, world football’s governing body announced on Thursday. “Matches originally scheduled to take...
New Delhi: Global sportswear giant Adidas reveals Finale Istanbul, the Official Match Ball for the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League knockout stages in India. The 2019/20 UEFA...
Mumbai: National football team head coach Igor Stimac is not happy with more foreign players featuring in a match in Indian Super League and I-League, saying...
Zurich: World football governing body FIFA proposed postponing all the upcoming 2022 World Cup and 2023 Asian Cup Cup qualifiers, including India’s home game against Qatar,...
Strasbourg (France): Michel Platini has lost his appeal at the European Court of Human Rights to overturn a four-year ban from soccer for taking a 2...
Asuncion (Paraguay): Brazilian football great Ronaldinho and his brother Roberto Assis have been arrested in the Paraguayan capital for allegedly entering the country with false passports....
New Delhi: The top boss of the country’s top-most soccer league has been quoted on February 28 saying the time was yet not ripe to increase...
Zurich: FIFA began the process Thursday of sorting out how to fit international games into soccer’s congested schedule from 2024, with complex talks expected to find agreement...
New Delhi: Is hosting Fifa U-17 World Cup enough for girls to play football professionally in India, a freelance woman journalist, who claimed to be a...
New Delhi: The Indian U-17 women’s football team will be travelling on an exposure tour to Turkey as part of their preparation for the forthcoming U-17 Women’s...
Lausanne: FIFA has announced the launch of what it has called a “groundbreaking talent development programme” with the aim of reducing the gap between the world’s...
New Delhi: The All India Football Federation (AIFF) could investigate match fixing claims made by TRAU FC against their sacked head coach Dimitris Dimitriou. TRAU relieved...
New Delhi: I-League clubs are not exactly having a day in the sun in Indian football’s current scenario. Some have accused the parent body of making...
Athens: The home of a Greek referee was on Friday attacked for the second time in two weeks, raising the possibility of a strike by football...
London: When FIFA asked every competition to enforce a three-step procedure in response to racism at matches, the English Premier League did not follow the advice. That...
New Delhi: When the young boy began playing club football in early 60s, he kept a notebook in his bag. In the night after every match,...
Doha: FIFA president Gianni Infantino is assessing nine offers from companies seeking to buy the commercial and broadcasting rights for a new club competition he hopes...
Geneva: Belgium have been crowned FIFA ”Team of the Year” for the second successive time after a record-breaking year for the global ladder. The team, known...
Lausanne: FIFA has said it had filed court claims in Switzerland to force Michel Platini to return USD 2 million he received during Sepp Blatter’s reign...
New Delhi: On October 14 in Kuala Lumpur, the All India Football Federation (AIFF) scored a spectacular result. It tabled a roadmap for Indian football, which...
Lausanne: FIFA is to take legal action by the end of the year to force Michel Platini to return two million Swiss francs (USD 2 million,...
Zurich: Sepp Blatter, the former president of FIFA, has said that he had opposed awarding the 2020 World Cup to Qatar, but that he has a...
Brussels: FIFA has not given its backing to reported plans for a closed European super league, its president Gianni Infantino said Wednesday. “FIFA is not backing...
Lausanne: An official linked to the World Anti-Doping Agency has said Russia can participate in qualifying for the 2022 World Cup despite receiving a four-year ban...
Doha: Qatar has postponed to next year the opening of Education City stadium, its second newly built venue for the 2022 football World Cup, FIFA has...
Lausanne: Chelsea manager Frank Lampard admitted the club will be on the lookout for new faces in the January window after a FIFA-imposed transfer ban was...
Mumbai: A team of officials from the world football governing body FIFA has inspected the DY Patil Stadium at Navi Mumbai, one of the proposed venues...
Paris: The biggest names in world football will descend on Paris on Monday for the 2019 Ballon d’Or ceremony, with Lionel Messi and USA women’s World...
Bhubaneswar: Provisionally approved as a venue for next year’s U-17 Women’s World Cup, a FIFA team on Friday made another inspection of the Kalinga Stadium here...
Kolkata: An eight-member FIFA inspection team on Wednesday expressed happiness at the state of infrastructure at the Salt Lake Stadium, one of the venues for the...
Kolkata: An eight-member FIFA delegation has arrived in the city for an official inspection to evaluate the progress and preparations for the U-17 Women’s World Cup...
Buenos Aires: Argentine legend Diego Maradona has announced he would return as coach of Superliga side Gimnasia, just two days after resigning. “I am very happy...
Rome: Former UEFA president Michel Platini has slammed the use of VAR technology, the introduction of which he has always opposed, as a total nightmare, in...
