The $152 million fund for the first 32-team tournament is a huge boost from the 24-team edition in 2019, and 10 times what it was in 2015.
The 34-year-old Alderweireld, who plays for Antwerp in the Belgian league after stints at Ajax, Atletico Madrid and Tottenham, made his debut with the national squad in 2009.
Lima’s appointment to “develop, promote and participate in several global initiatives” was announced by FIFA on Monday hours before the former Victoria’s Secret runway model helped present the fan prize in Paris at...
Infantino had no election opponent and won by acclaim instead of a formal vote by the congress of 211 member federations whose basic annual funding from FIFA has risen from $250,000 to $2 million since his first win in 2016.
Fontaine took six games to achieve his feat at the 1958 World Cup in Sweden when he was a last-minute inclusion on the French squad.
Electric car racing body Formula E and Tata Communications on Saturday announced a strategic multi-year collaboration with the digital services company becoming the official broadcast distribution provider to the ABB FIA...
The governing body of football increased the size of the 2026 tournament for the second time — six years after the first — by approving a bigger group stage for the inaugural 48-team event.
Argentina's World Cup-winning captain and France's superstar forward head the three-player shortlist announced by FIFA on Friday, eight weeks after leading their teams in an epic final in Qatar.
Tedesco replaces Roberto Martinez, who was in charge of the team for six years.
Members of the South American candidacy for the centennial 2030 World Cup want to host the opening match in Buenos Aires and the final in Montevideo, where...
Football's richest and most watched league challenged its defending champion with more than 100 charges of alleged financial wrongdoing and failures to...
The matches will be played on March 22, 24 and 26, which fall during the FIFA international window.
FIFA has said a bigger Club World Cup will "promote and grow football for the benefit of all confederations, member associations, leagues, clubs and fans."
The players must all carry out community service on a soccer project and pay fines of up to 20,000 Swiss francs ($21,600), FIFA said.
Russia tried to make progress on Tuesday on its slow and difficult return to international sports amid its war in Ukraine at a meeting Tuesday with officials...
Italy’s most storied football club, Juventus, was hit with a massive 15-point penalty for false accounting Friday following an appeal hearing at the Italian...
FIFA President Gianni Infantino met with special prosecutors in Switzerland as part of their criminal investigation into his undisclosed meetings with the...
The Bayern Munich forward suggested on Dec. 1 he might have played his last game for Germany.
Lionel Messi finally has something Kylian Mbappé already had with a World Cup winners’ medal. Now Mbappé wants what Messi has won many times: the Ballon...
During the World Cup in Doha, AIFF president Kalyan Chaubey held deliberations with Wenger and other senior officials of the FIFA and AFC regarding youth...
Pelé will be buried on Tuesday in the city of Santos, where he grew up, became famous, and helped make into a global capital of football.
Qatar ended the year by hosting the FIFA World Cup 2022 football championship—a competition that critics the world over described as one the greatest in the...
For Odisha, the highlight of the tumultuous year gone by was when the "daughter of the soil" Dropupadi Murmu became the first tribal president of the country.
Joe Pompliano explained a chain of events that caused a family feud after a breach of the "Pele pact" between siblings and founders of Adidas and Puma.
If Messi worked his magic to guide Argentina to its third World Cup triumph, Pele's legion of fans kept praying as he battled cancer in a Sao Paulo hospital...
