🔥 Top football never stops: these matches will brighten up your holidays
Christmas with the family is getting completely out of hand again and after what feels like eight kilos…
Football through the generations, part 2: From the Dark Ages to a new world of money, pressure and scrutiny
Over the course of this year, The Athletic has met up with seven footballers born across a period…
🗓️ There’s still football to come, catch the top matches to end the year
The 2025 Brazilian football season has officially ended this Sunday (21), with Corinthians winning the Copa do Brasil.…
Morocco want to be football’s new superpower. The path will be a challenging one
Follow all of The Athletic’s AFCON coverage here When the French arrived in Rabat at the start of…
Does surprise AFCON schedule change really benefit African football?
When arriving 55 minutes late for his press briefing in Rabat on Saturday afternoon, ahead of the 2025…
The BookKeeper: Real Madrid, the world’s richest football club, analysed like never before
Chris Weatherspoon is The Athletic’s first dedicated football finance writer. Chris is a chartered accountant who uses his…
The football word of the year, 2000-2025: Park the bus, raumdeuter, prawn sandwich brigade
Every so often, a football pundit goes viral for laying into the ‘new words’ the game has developed…
Is Erling Haaland the greatest goalscorer in English football history?
Erling Haaland is undoubtedly one of English football’s greatest goalscorers, with his feats and achievements since joining Manchester…
How we will be watching football in 2035
I am a lot like my dad. We enjoy similar things, we are the same shape, and we…
Steve McClaren quits as Jamaica coach after falling short of direct World Cup qualification
KINGSTON, Jamaica — Steve McClaren has quit as coach of the Jamaican national team after the Reggae Boyz…
Welcome to football’s age of lawfare – bitter, belligerent and eyewateringly expensive
You might walk past the International Dispute Resolution Centre (IDRC) in central London a hundred times without noticing…
English football needs oversight to face ‘extreme challenges’, says Football Regulator chair
David Kogan, the chair of the Independent Football Regulator (IFR), believes the English game needs external oversight because…