With so much news and attention focused on what Turner Sports will do with their coverage of the UEFA Champions League and Europa League when they take the rights away from FOX Sports in August 2018, there hasn't been as much focus on how much of a big deal the Spanish-language rights to the same […]

Reported attendances were less than stellar this past week. Columbus’ midweek match had the lowest reported gate in the league this season (10,318). Colorado, Dallas, DC United and Houston all had relatively poor turnouts. New York Red Bulls' match against LA had the lowest showing (against the Galaxy) since 2006, the year before Beckham arrived. […]

Here are the ten things we learned from Week 11 of the 2017 MLS season. 1. A Return To The Spotlight For Chicago For one night, at least, Chicago finally returned to the center of the MLS universe. With ESPN and the defending champion Seattle Sounders in town for a Saturday night primetime clash, the […]

London (AFP) – Scorer of the goal that won Chelsea the title, Michy Batshuayi will hope to make his first Premier League start for the club in Monday's home game with Watford. The Belgium striker came off the bench to score the decisive goal in Friday's 1-0 win at West Bromwich Albion, which confirmed Chelsea […]

The Gunners have been firing on all cylinders since manager Arsene Wenger switched formations. Wenger, who has been using a 4-2-3-1 formation for years now, recently adopted a 3-4-2-1 configuration about a month ago. The move to go with three central defenders at the back has helped the north London club win five out of […]

In an interview with Sports Business Daily last week, MLS executives revealed their plan to improve lagging TV ratings. The plan includes: 1. Putting cameras in the locker rooms before the game, 2. Allowing access to team huddles, 3. Putting microphones on coaches during games, and 4. Increasing the number of media “car wash” tours. While the changes are welcome, […]

Over a span of four months, from October 2015 to January 2016, the FIFA Ethics Committee removed the three most powerful men in football – Sepp Blatter, Jerome Valcke, and Michel Platini – from office, and banned them from the game. It was an extremely hopeful stretch in the dark history of the world’s governing […]

The Championship playoffs will be streamed to viewers in the United States featuring Reading, Fulham, Sheffield Wednesday and Huddersfield Town all fighting to become the one team that gets promoted to the Premier League. Brighton and Newcastle have already sealed promotion from the Championship to the Premier League, but now it's time for the teams […]

Tickets will go on sale soon for this summer's Tournament of Nations competition featuring the women's teams of the United States, Brazil, Japan and Australia. The round-robin tournament will feature three doubleheaders that will celebrate some of the world's premier women's soccer players, many of whom compete in the National Women's Soccer League. The games […]

Among soccer fans, there has been much anticipation about how Turner Sports will broadcast the UEFA Champions League when they begin coverage in the late summer of 2018. At the same time, there's also been a lot of speculation about what channels Turner Sports will use to distribute the games to soccer fans throughout the […]

Here at World Soccer Talk, we have taken the lead in identifying the next generation of television broadcasters who will be "driving the bandwagon" by connecting with new viewers in their own unique ways to continue to grow the American soccer community. We first identified John Strong in March 2013 as the best homegrown play-by-play […]

Our EFL iFollow FAQ breaks down a now-essential tool to keep up with a number of clubs throughout the English pyramid. With the exciting news that the English Football League (EFL) is launching an exclusive streaming platform for the 2017/18 season onwards, soccer fans around the world will finally be able to watch all of […]

Tickets for Manchester United’s three games in the United States this summer as part of the International Champions Cup are selling fast. So far, according to a spokesperson, more than 100,000 tickets have been sold for Manchester United’s two already-confirmed games on US soil. Location details for the third game, featuring the first Manchester derby […]

Tickets for Barcelona's three games in the United States this summer as part of the International Champions Cup are selling fast. So far, according to a spokesperson, more than 150,000 tickets have been sold for Barcelona's games on US soil. Those three games are: Saturday, July 22, 2017 Juventus vs. FC Barcelona (International Champions Cup), […]

beIN SPORTS have acquired exclusive rights to show the African Continent’s version of the Champions League in the United States. Fittingly, the 2017 version of the competition sees the Group Stage, which starts this week, expanded from 8 teams to 16 with 4 groups of 4 teams now competing for 8 Quarterfinal places. Unlike other […]