FOX Sports has acquired the English-language TV rights to the 2017 and 2019 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournaments, the network announced today. The 2017 CONCACAF Gold Cup, which will be played in the United States in July 2017, will feature the United States and Mexico as the two automatically qualified nations. It's expected that an additional […]

London (AFP) – England's interim manager Gareth Southgate and his Scotland counterpart Gordon Strachan refused to be drawn on their respective futures following the World Cup qualifier between their teams. England won 3-0 at Wembley on Friday to boost Southgate's chances of being given the job full-time, having won two and drawn one of the […]

London (AFP) – England and Scotland face an uncertain wait to discover if they will face sanctions after proceeding with a contentious poppy tribute to Britain's war dead in their World Cup qualifier. The two teams, led by England captain Wayne Rooney and his Scotland counterpart Darren Fletcher, wore black armbands with red poppy motifs […]

Paris (AFP) – France coach Didier Deschamps insists there is an awful lot more to Paul Pogba's game after the Manchester United star found the net again in his country's 2-1 win over Sweden on Friday. The world's most expensive player headed in France's equaliser before Dimitri Payet got the winning goal in the World […]

Belfast (AFP) – Chris Brunt put behind him the disappointment of missing Euro 2016 as he scored one and made another in Northern Ireland's 4-0 whipping of Azerbaijan in their 2018 World Cup qualifier. Brunt, who missed Euro 2016 because of a serious knee injury, also played most of Friday's match with his head bandaged […]

Paris (AFP) – England shrugged aside the potential ramifications of sanctions over poppy emblems Friday with a 3-0 Wembley win over Scotland to bring a 2018 World Cup berth a step closer. A trio of headers from Liverpool pair Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana and Chelsea's Gary Cahill saw interim coach Gareth Southgate's side cruise […]

Serravalle (San Marino) (AFP) – Ex-Arsenal winger Serge Gnabry scored a hat-trick on his senior Germany debut in Friday's 8-0 World Cup victory at San Marino as coach Joachim Loew set a new winning record. Gnabry, 21, who left the Gunners before the start of the season, is the first German to score a hat-trick […]

London (AFP) – Gareth Southgate enhanced his chances of keeping his job and shortened the odds on Gordon Strachan losing his as England sank Scotland 3-0 in World Cup qualifying on Friday. In the third game of Southgate's four-match stint as interim England manager, headers by Daniel Sturridge, Adam Lallana and Gary Cahill secured a […]

Columbus (AFP) – The election of Donald Trump as President of the United States would not impact any decision the country may make to bid for the 2026 World Cup, US Soccer Federation president Sunil Gulati said on Friday. The US is considered favourite to host the tournament with the bidding process expected to get […]

London (AFP) – England captain Wayne Rooney and Scotland counterpart Darren Fletcher led out teams sporting black armbands with red poppy motifs for Friday's World Cup qualifier, paying a commemorative war dead tribute at Wembley that leaves both nations at risk of FIFA sanctions. Football's world governing body has warned the move could contravene rules […]

Zurich (AFP) – FIFA's ethics commission on Friday called for a life ban from football for the former head of the CONCACAF federation and former Honduras federation president Alfredo Hawit on corruption charges. Hawit was extradited from Switzerland last January to the United States to face charges a month after his arrest in Zurich on […]

London (AFP) – Sam Allardyce will not face a police investigation over the newspaper sting operation that saw his time as England manager brought to an end after just one game in charge, it was announced Friday. Allardyce, 62, was sacked following the publication by the Daily Telegraph in September of controversial comments made to […]

Sunday's broadcast of Sevilla against Barcelona on beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS en Espanol was the most-watched La Liga game of the 2016/17 season thus far. The match averaged 552,000 viewers. The game averaged 408,000 on the Spanish-language beIN SPORTS en Espanol as well as 144,000 on beIN SPORTS. The game, which ended 2-1 to […]

London (AFP) – Football global governing body FIFA insisted Friday it was a "distortion of the facts" to suggest they would punish British national associations determined to mark this weekend's World Cup qualifiers with poppy tributes. Both England and Scotland pan to defy what they believe to be a FIFA ban on the wearing of […]

Abuja (AFP) – Nigeria coach Gernot Rohr claims Mikel Obi is being “punished” by Premier League club Chelsea for playing at the Rio Olympics. Mikel, 29, missed most of Chelsea pre-season as he helped his country win a bronze medal at the football event of the Summer Olympic Games. He has yet to play for […]