Heathrow is one of the world’s busiest airports for international travel, and saw 83.9 million passengers last year. Passengers on about 120 flights were in the air when the closure was ...

The United States will host the Club World Cup in 2025 — the first edition of the club football competition under FIFA's controversial new expanded format. Manchester City are the Club World ...

Club Leon have been kicked out of the FIFA Club World Cup for failing to meet criteria on multi-club ownership. The two Mexican sides in the tournament – Club Leon and Pachuca – are both owned ...

New Caledonia earlier beat Tahiti 3-0 in the first semifinal in FIFA's smallest confederation. The winner of the Oceania qualifying series will gain direct entry to the World Cup for the first time.

Japan became the first country to qualify for the 2026 men’s World Cup after it beat Bahrain 2-0 at Saitama Stadium on Thursday. Second-half goals from Daichi Kamada and Takefusa Kubo were ...

A promising Chinese footballer who suffered a serious head injury while playing in Spain has died ... The same year he was also part of the FC Bayern World Squad project run by Germany's largest club ...

He added: “I’m playing against the world’s best footballer, my idol, and to score and become the winner, it couldn’t be better.” Hojlund had named Ronaldo as his idol in an interview in 2024, and just ...

Australia’s Socceroos took a major step towards direct 2026 FIFA World Cup qualification with a 5-1 win over a valiant Indonesia in Sydney on Thursday night. With three games left in this phase ...

The CONMEBOL FIFA World Cup 2026 qualifiers return in March 2025, featuring key matchups like Argentina vs Brazil and Uruguay vs Argentina. South American giants will battle for spots in the 2026 ...

The rest were products of Tim Garuda’s aggressive naturalisation policy, the one that their federation is hoping will spark their first World Cup appearance since 1938. Most of them were Dutch ...

A young Chinese footballer, Guo Jiaxuan, tragically died just before his 19th birthday after sustaining a serious head injury during a training match in Spain. His family has accused the Beijing ...