Doha (AFP) – Moroccan international Youssef al-Arabi registered a brace as Qatar giants Lekhwiya downed UAE’s Al Jazira 3-0 on the opening day of the Asian Champions League on Monday. Lekhwiya, who lately have experienced a slight slump in form in the domestic Qatar Stars League, hit their groove from the very outset to put […]

Panaji (India) (AFP) – World football body FIFA has banned a senior Qatari official from running in elections for a seat on its new-look council over an investigation. Scandal-plagued FIFA's ethics committee last month recommended a two-and-a-half-year ban from the game for Saoud Al-Mohannadi, vice-president of the Qatar Football Association, for refusing to cooperate with […]

Doha (AFP) – Qatar confirmed on Saturday that Jorge Fossati is the new national team coach, tasked with trying to revive the country's fading hopes of making its first ever World Cup finals in Russia in 2018. The appointment was confirmed in a message posted on Twitter by the Qatar Football Association, which read simply: "Mr Jorge […]

Doha (AFP) – For a country which craves World Cup experience, it is fitting that one of the tournament's greatest ever coaches, Bora Milutinovic, now calls Qatar home. The "Miracle Worker" is the man who was a penalty shootout away from taking Mexico to the semi-finals in 1986, saw his Costa Rica team beat Scotland […]

Doha (AFP) – Qatar will play three European friendlies this year, the first against Albania, ahead of crucial 2018 World Cup qualifiers, coach Jose Daniel Carreno announced Saturday. The match against Albania will take place in Austria on May 29. That is just 13 days before Albania play their first game at the European Championship […]

Ex-FIFA official Theo Zwanziger, who described Qatar last year as "a cancer" on world football, was told in court on Tuesday that his comments were covered by freedom of speech. The 70-year-old trained lawyer appeared in Duesseldorf's regional court after the Qatar Football Association (QFA) filed a civil lawsuit for damages over his comments concerning […]