Mexico 0, Portugal 0: Tragedy mars Azteca reopening as El Tri hold Ronaldo-less foe
Mexico and Portugal played out a listless 0-0 draw on a night of conflicting emotions at the Estadio…
Denver Summit and Washington Spirit draw 0-0 before a record NWSL crowd of 63,004
The Denver Summit and the Washington Spirit played to a scoreless draw on Saturday before a record National…
Denver Summit shatters NWSL crowd record with 63,004 fans at Mile High
The expansion Denver Summit’s match against the Washington Spirit on Saturday broke the National Women’s Soccer League record…
The Opta-stat-packification of football: Why are the game’s milestones getting weirder?
Back in October, after a 2-0 home win for Manchester United over Sunderland heralded one of the final…
World Cup play-offs: Who went through? What are the match-ups in the finals?
Italy avoided an upset to beat Northern Ireland and put themselves one win from qualifying for their first…
World Cup 2026 stadium guides: Welcome to Los Angeles Stadium, the most expensive sports venue in the world
This article is part of our World Cup Stadium Guides series, in which we look at the 16…
NFL stadiums must scrub all branding for FIFA’s World Cup. One roof got an exemption
In the buildup to the 2026 World Cup, several NFL stadiums have been dealing with a peculiar headache:…
Special report: Violence in amateur football – ‘I can’t comprehend why you would do that to someone’
“He wound his arm back and sucker-punched me to the back of the head. I fell to the…
Tottenham’s fans did their bit. Then the football started – and everything went wrong
They started gathering on the High Road before midday. Some held up flares, filling the air with blue…
Football’s demand for perfection has created the ‘crazy’ world where ‘identical’ fouls get different decisions
This week has seen enough litigation. Football’s news cycle has been dominated by Chelsea’s punishment (or non-punishment, depending…
What football thinks of Tottenham’s tailspin: ‘Incompetence of the highest order’
For large parts of this season, it has felt like the whole of football has been rubbernecking in…
Who is the most underrated player in world football?
It was a bold statement from Trent Alexander-Arnold. “He is undoubtedly the most underrated footballer on the planet,”…