Syria’s team spirit has kept the war-torn nation in contention to qualify for their first football World Cup and Ayman Hakeem’s side will need to muster more of the...

Doha's Al Thumama stadium, designed by a Qatari architect in the shape of a traditional knitted "gahfiya" Arabian cap, will host 40,000 fans at a World Cup quarter final match in 2022

Iraq’s World Cup qualifier against the United Arab Emirates next month has been moved to the Jordanian capital Amman from Tehran, Iran, an Iraq Football Association (IFA) spokesman told...

Four Arab states sought on Monday to pile pressure on Qatar over charges it backs terrorism, saying the publication of a previously secret accord between Riyadh and Doha showed...

Qatar said today that a rift with fellow Gulf Arab states that includes economic sanctions on Doha has not affected its preparations to host the 2022 World Cup, and...

The International Football Association (FIFA) chief said the current crisis in the Gulf region will not affect the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. “At the moment, we are actually...

Football is a beautiful game; full of passion, it is a sport which has ingrained itself in many national cultures bringing out the very best in human nature, and...

Qatar Airways said on Sunday it has signed a sponsorship deal with FIFA to be the official partner and airline of the next two World Cups, in Russia and...

Football’s top governing body may set Israel a six-month ultimatum to end games in settlements in the occupied West Bank, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported Sunday. FIFA’s monitoring committee on...

Israel is launching a diplomatic offensive against Palestinian calls for FIFA to ban football clubs based in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied territories, an unnamed official said today....

More than one hundred sports associations, trade unions, human rights organizations and faith based groups, representing millions of people from 28 countries across the globe, on Wednesday joined football...

Tokyo Sexwale, chair of FIFA’s Monitoring Committee Israel-Palestine, has missed yet another deadline to submit his report to FIFA’s leadership on the matter of Israel’s football clubs located in...

Football fans flocking to watch the 2022 World Cup will not be allowed to consume alcohol publicly in Qatar, tournament organisers have confirmed. “There will be no alcohol consumption on...

Albania has moved Saturday’s World Cup European Group G qualifier with Israel from the northern city of Shkoder to a venue near the capital Tirana due to security concerns,...

Egypt is increasing security ahead of a football game which sees Ghana play the national team after authorities reportedly received threats against the Israeli Ghana coach. The game, due...

The head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) wants FIFA to adopt what he called a Crimea-style solution to prevent Israeli league clubs from being based in settlements in...