As the 2026 World Cup draws closer, the contenders for the trophy are likely to be those who have tasted victory before.

Jack Murray discusses the possibility of Harry Kane's outstanding goalscoring form being rewarded with a first Ballon d'Or.

When PSV Eindhoven secured the treble of Dutch League, Dutch Cup and European Cup in May 1988, it was typical of a brief period of unprecedented egalitarianism in the European game. As surprising as ...

Now a sleepy, small fishing town just six miles away from Kingston (Jamaica’s capital city), Port Royal used to have a fearsome reputation. In the 17th century, it was frequently labelled as the “the ...

Non-league football is very special; it is the roots of Dorking Wanderers. Ever since its creation in 1999, they have had a miraculous rise through the English football pyramid and they will be ...

An enticing concept has been quietly incubating within English football in recent years: supporter ownership of clubs. While it may be the norm in places such as Germany and Argentina for football ...

Perhaps co-incidentally, or maybe as part of a compromise for this to happen, another change to the criteria saw the runners up of the best ranked nations also competing in the second qualifying round ...

In all honesty, I haven’t watched a minute of Match of the Day this season. The simple reason for this is because I didn’t have to. In addition to showing Match of the Day, the BBC’s streaming service ...

2025 brings us another new chapter in the footballing universe: the birth of the new FIFA Club World Cup. The Club World Cup has been a staple of the footballing calendar since 2000 (or 1960 if you ...

The parameters for declaring a nationality when playing English football are being a UK resident, having English parents, or having English grandparents. It is so broad that it often gives the players ...

After almost a century of existence, by the mid 1980s and into the early 1990s, football was in crisis. After the golden post-war era of the 1950s and 60s, the game started to enter a decline in the ...

Sunday, December 21 represented a new low in the tumultuous history of Gateshead FC. The turnout for their National League fixture against Eastleigh was 431. Fewer than 400 of them were home fans. The ...