World Cup

FIFA is launching a new service to crack down on hate speech and discrimination online during the World Cup, world soccer’s governing body said on Wednesday. The Social Media ...

Half a litre of beer will cost 50 Qatari riyals (13 euros) inside the main fan zone at the World Cup in Qatar, a source with knowledge of alcohol sales at the ...

Netherlands coach Louis van Gaal said Dutch fans who are boycotting the World Cup over human rights concern are right to do so but hopes that if his side get ...

Qatar’s Supreme Committee said it has apologised after a Danish film crew were threatened by security staff live on air as they broadcast in the capiatl Doha ahead of ...

Argentina’s Lionel Messi picks out Brazil, France and England as the biggest threats to his dream of finally adding a World Cup winners’ medal to his bulging trophy cabinet. ...

The chief of football’s world governing body FIFA issued a plea on Tuesday for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine for the duration of the World Cup, calling ...

Football fans will be glad to know that CyBC will broadcast live all 64 games of the 2022 Fifa World Cup, running from November 20 through to December 18. The public broadcaster said that ...

A mid-season World Cup is a nightmare for club managers fretting over injuries but Liverpool boss Juergen Klopp said his players will be in constant touch throughout the tournament, updating ...

Senegal striker Sadio Mane will undergo medical checks in Munich in 10 days to monitor his recovery from an injury that could rule him out of the entire World Cup despite ...

Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter thinks Iran should be barred from the World Cup amid widespread protests in the Islamic Republic sparked by the death of a woman in the ...

England have included in-form Leicester City midfielder James Maddison in their squad for the World Cup in Qatar, with forwards Callum Wilson and Marcus Rashford also selected. Maddison and Newcastle ...

Alphonso Davies’ unlikely path to spearheading Canada’s first World Cup campaign in nearly four decades began in a West African refugee camp where children’s dreams are eclipsed by ...

Croatia head to the Qatar World Cup in the unusual position of looking like one of the stronger teams, having thrived on their reputation as outsiders for much of the ...

Sepp Blatter, the former president of FIFA when Qatar was awarded the 2022 World Cup hosting rights in 2010, told Swiss newspaper Tages Anzeiger “Qatar is a mistake,” adding that “the choice ...

Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen’s return from a near-fatal heart attack at Euro 2022 to the peak of his powers during recent internationals has the country’s fans dreaming of what ...

For many of Belgium’s Golden Generation, the World Cup in Qatar represents a last shot at football immortality and victory would be a crowning glory for a side that ...

Germany are almost always among the title favourites at international tournaments but it is hard to predict how far Hansi Flick’s team will progress at this year’s World ...

Twelve years after Spain’s golden generation won their nation’s first World Cup but failed dismally in their next two tournament outings, Luis Enrique’s side look to have ...

A Qatar World Cup ambassador has told German television broadcaster ZDF that homosexuality was “damage in the mind”, as the Gulf state prepares to host the global tournament in less ...

Brazil have included 39-year-old defender Daniel Alves but left out Liverpool forward Roberto Firmino in their 26-man World Cup squad which was named by coach Tite on Monday. Four years ...

Violent fans involved in illegal associations and even those in debt for food dues are part of a list of 6,000 Argentines who will not be allowed to enter World Cup ...

England’s Ben Chilwell will miss the World Cup in Qatar with an injury, the Chelsea fullback said on Saturday after scans showed he had suffered significant damage to his ...

Portugal captain Cristiano Ronaldo, who has been named the best player in the world five times, will arrive in Qatar with a mission to prove that he can still make ...

FIFA has written to World Cup teams urging them to focus on the soccer in Qatar and not let the sport be dragged into ideological or political “battles”. The letter ...