The Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ sides still have plenty to play for as the season reaches its crucial final few weeks. Just two points separate Liverpool and Manchester City in the title race, although Pep Guardiola’s side have what could be a vital game in hand on the Reds. City remain favourites with the bookmakers […]

The name of the game for soccer leagues shown on US television is to figure out a way to take advantage of the hype and interest in a men's World Cup tournament, and to attract those viewers to their respective leagues after the FIFA tournament is over. According to research by World Soccer Talk, some […]

Bernd Leno’s Arsenal career did not necessarily get off to a great start. After all, he began his time in north London behind Premier League legend Petr Cech as the club’s first-choice goalkeeper. While allowing time to adapt to a new league may not have been shocking to some, the German was finally given the […]

ESPN+ has acquired the streaming rights to the US Open Cup through 2022 in another deal that positions ESPN+ as the leading soccer streaming service in the United States. The U.S. Open Cup is the longest-running domestic cup competition in the United States. All U.S. Open Cup matches from the First Round through the Final […]

NBCSN will debut a brand-new documentary to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of Manchester United's incredible 1999 treble-winning season. Schedule to air on April 28 at 2:30PM ET on NBCSN, The Impossible Dream features interviews with Sir Alex Ferguson, Ole-Gunnar Solskjaer, Gary Lineker, Jim Rosenthal, David Beckham, Andrew Cole, Teddy Sheringham, Dwight Yorke, Ryan Giggs and […]

For English-language soccer fans in the United States, no league has done a better job in connecting with supporters throughout the country than the Premier League courtesy of NBC Sports. So far this season, NBC Sports has already launched two Premier League fan festivals. And the third one, to be held in Boston this weekend, […]

Real Madrid are heading to the United States for a summer preseason tour for the fourth year in a row. With no World Cup or European Championship scheduled this summer, it's likely that Real Madrid will feature a close to full-strength squad of world-class players. In the Real Madrid US tour, Zinedine Zidane's team will […]

Arsenal are heading to the United States this summer for a preseason tour that'll see them playing from coast to coast. It's no secret that previous Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger was not a fan of taking his team to the United States on preseason tours. Thankfully, his successor Unai Emery has no qualms, and will […]

As Aaron Ramsey is set to depart Arsenal after 11 seasons in north London, the Gunners will have a significant hole to fill. The Wales star has been an important figure in the squad during his time at the club. He was instrumental in ending Arsenal’s nine-year trophy drought in 2014 and helped guide the […]

It's been so far so good for the USMNT under Gregg Berhalter. Under his guidance, the US is 3-0-0 (W-L-D) and has yet to concede a goal: beating Panama 3-0, Costa Rica 2-0, and Ecuador 1-0 this past Thursday on a goal from Gyasi Zardes that took a mile-high deflection before going in. But we're […]

The average attendance for home games featuring the US Men's National Team is trending downward. The attendance has been falling for the US for several years now. Furthermore, the attendance is down for this cycle when compared to the previous cycle. From 2010 to 2014, the US averaged 36,697 through 43 games. So from 2014 […]

Gregg Berhalter's first camp in charge of the USMNT went about as well as could be expected, as the US won both games by a combined score of 5-0: 3-0 against Panama and 2-0 against Costa Rica. A pair of clean sheets and five different goal-scorers is certainly a bright spot. But that was the […]

Popular streaming service ESPN+ has acquired the English-language and Portuguese-language rights to the 2019 CONMEBOL Copa América for viewers in the United States, a source revealed to World Soccer Talk. With Telemundo Deportes already having acquired the Spanish-language rights in the United States, that means that soccer fans will have plenty of choices this summer […]

In spite of how this season may end, the 2018/19 campaign has been a good one for Frank Lampard and Steven Gerrard. Lampard and Gerrard have both taken brave steps into big management jobs, and both of them have been relatively successful. Nobody can argue that the two English giants have acquitted themselves remarkably and […]

NBC Sports and the Premier League are partnering to present the first two-day “Premier League Mornings Live” supporter event on March 30-31 in Boston. The Saturday-Sunday fan festival will take place in the shadow of Fenway Park’s iconic “Green Monster,” at the famed Cask ‘n Flagon sports bar across the street from the stadium. In […]