Madrid (AFP) – Levante's six-year stay in the Spanish top flight came to an end as a 3-1 defeat to Malaga on Monday saw them relegated from La Liga. Defeat leaves Levante six points behind Rayo Vallecano, Sporting Gijon and Getafe with two games remaining. However, with Getafe and Sporting still to play each other […]

Berlin (AFP) – Claudio Pizarro netted and winger Fin Bartels scored twice as Werder Bremen thrashed VfB Stuttgart 6-2 on Monday to escape the Bundesliga's bottom three with two games left. Stuttgart drop to 17th, second from bottom in Germany's top flight, after the rout at Bremen's Weser Stadion, but Bremen are just a point […]

With the awards season in full swing as the Premier League campaign draws to a close, there has been little surprise regarding the two big prizes given out thus far. Jamie Vardy has won the Football Writers’ award while Riyad Mahrez won the Professional Footballers’ Association award for player of the year. It would always […]

ESPN's SportsCenter, the most popular sports news program on US television, made a huge mistake on Monday evening when one of its on-air talent claimed that Tottenham Hotspur, not Leicester, had won the 2015/16 Premier League title. The mistake was made on-air on ESPN not one but twice as the sports network showed footage of […]

Soccer streaming service fuboTV has added One World Sports to its growing list of soccer channels that can be streamed on computers, tablets, smartphones, set top boxes and select smart TVs. With One World Sports, the 24-hour sports network features games from NASL's New York Cosmos as well as programming from Arsenal TV, Chelsea TV […]

London (AFP) – Burnley returned to the Premier League at the first attempt as a 1-0 win over QPR at jubilant Turf Moor sealed promotion from the Championship on Monday. Sean Dyche's side kicked off knowing a lucrative place in the top-flight, worth an estimated £180 million ($264 million) was within touching distance after promotion […]

Leicester City's title-winning season has brought more fans to the sport and specifically to the Premier League than just about anything in our lifetime. Against a backdrop of poor results in European competitions as well as the soccer superstars selecting Spain or Germany over England to play their football in — as well as Manchester […]

Munich (Germany) (AFP) – Striker Fernando Torres says Atletico Madrid are ready for "a battle" at Bayern Munich in Tuesday's Champions League semi-final, second-leg, to keep their Milan dream alive. Diego Simeone's Atletico arrived in Munich holding a 1-0 lead from the first leg thanks to Saul Niguez's solo winner in last Wednesday's 1-0 victory […]

Leicester City's remarkable season has them crowned champions of England for the first time in their 132-year history without kicking a ball on Monday after second-placed Tottenham Hotspur failed to keep the title race alive in their 2-2 draw against Chelsea. Stamford Bridge is a ground where the Lilywhites haven't enjoyed a league win for 26 years — […]

Sunday's thrilling match between Manchester United and Leicester City posted NBCSN's best-ever overnight TV rating for a Premier League match. The 1-1 draw aired at 9:05am ET in a match that had important consequences for the Premier League title race as well as Manchester United's push for Champions League qualification. NBCSN's broadcast of the game […]

Here are the ten things we learned from Week 9 of the 2016 MLS season. 1. A Star is Born in Portland Some six years and a handful of weeks ago, Jake Gleeson started the Portland Timbers’ MLS home opener as a fresh-faced 19-year-old. Those were heady days for the New Zealander, who got the […]

NBC Sports will televise all final 10 games of the 2015/16 Premier League season live across its networks on Sunday, May 15 as part of its Championship Sunday promotion. The games will be featured across NBC, NBCSN, USA, MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, Esquire, E!, Bravo and SyFy on what promises to be an eventful final day of […]

Leicester forward Jamie Vardy has been voted the 2016 Footballer of the Year by the Football Writers' Association (FWA). The 29-year-old striker took the award as a clear winner ahead of team-mates Riyad Mahrez, who had already taken the Player of the Year award voted on by his fellow professionals, and N'Golo Kante. Vardy has […]

Los Angeles (AFP) – Giovani dos Santos produced another superb goal to help the Los Angeles Galaxy draw 1-1 at Sporting Kansas City despite being having Ashley Cole sent off in the second half. Brad Davis put Kansas City 1-0 up in the 30th minute. Twelve minutes later, Gyasi Zardes found dos Santos on a […]

Berlin (AFP) – Bayern Munich's coach Pep Guardiola knows he needs to prove his critics wrong by overturning a 1-0 first-leg deficit against Atletico Madrid in Tuesday's crunch home Champions League semi-final. Guardiola and Bayern are bidding to avoid losing a semi-final to a Spanish side for the third year running having lost the first-leg […]