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FIFA yesterday canceled the draw for the Under-20 FIFA World Cup that was slated to take place in Indonesia next week, due to Jakarta's refusal to host Israel's team....

Morocco clinched a historic victory against Brazil yesterday in a friendly international match in Tangiers, beating the five-time World Cup winners for the first time ever and during the...

Mother's Day in the Arab world is celebrated on the first day of spring, 21 March, and for many children it is the most important day of the year,...

Morocco's King Mohammed VI announced on Tuesday that his country is to join Spain and Portugal in a joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, Anadolu has...

Football Australia (FA) and its stakeholders have reached an "overwhelming consensus" that a reported Saudi Arabia sponsorship deal does not align with their vision for the women's World Cup,...

Saudi Arabia has been selected to host the 2023 Club World Cup in December, FIFA announced yesterday. Rights groups have repeatedly called out Saudi for 'sportwashing'; investing or hosting sporting events in a bid to obscure its poor human rights record.

Bahrain is behind a judicial and media attack against Qatar in France, an investigation by French newspaper Liberation has revealed. The newspaper wrote: "The name of this small kingdom...

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has announced an investigation into remarks made against the Kingdom of Morocco during the opening ceremony of the African Nations Championship currently being...

The dispute between Cameroon and Algeria over the result of a football match last year has apparently been ended, Anadolu has reported. The head of the Cameroon Football Federation...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune yesterday inaugurated the Nelson Mandela Stadium in the capital in the presence of FIFA President Gianni Infantino, Patrice Motsepe, president of the Confederation of African...

The Western media spewed forth barrel loads of pompous invective recently about why Qatar should never have been chosen to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Bewildered Qataris found...

In a Wednesday phone call, the top Turkish and Qatari diplomats both repeated their denunciation of yesterday's provocation at Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel's new National Security Minister, said an...

Another critical year for Palestine has folded. While 2022 has wrought much of the same in terms of Israeli military occupation and increasing violence, it also introduced new variables...

Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has asserted that mediation between his country and Morocco was not possible and that severing relations with Rabat was the alternative to war. In an...

The European Union Parliament has opened an official investigation into corruption cases and suspicions involving senior officials from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to launch a smear campaign against...

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Qatar announced yesterday that it had recycled about 80 per cent of the waste from the stadiums that hosted the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022, Anadolu reported. In a...

Portuguese football star Cristiano Ronaldo was a victim of "a political ban" at the Qatar World Cup as a result of his support for the Palestinian cause, Turkish President...

My friend is not an elitist. To the contrary, he has spent decades of his life fighting social inequality, racism and championing the rights of disadvantaged groups. Therefore, I...

Qatar has estimated that it will make $17 billion in revenue after hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, Qatar News Agency (QNA) has reported. With 1.2 million visitors and...

According to Gianni Infantino, the President of FIFA, football's world governing body, the 2022 World Cup in Qatar was "an incredible success on all fronts." The first such tournament...

French-Algerian striker Karim Benzema announced his retirement from international football on his 35th birthday yesterday, a day after Les Bleus lost to Argentina on penalties in the World Cup...

Despite facing an unprecedented scale of criticism and calls for boycotts, months before a ball had been kicked, the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar has been a success....

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thanked the State of Qatar yesterday for its support for the Palestinian cause during its hosting of the FIFA World Cup, Wafa has reported. Abbas...

Qatar welcomed more than 1.4 million visitors from around the world during the FIFA World Cup tournament which ended yesterday with Argentina beating France to lift the trophy, the...

Former England footballer David Beckham has praised the quality of the visitor experience at the FIFA World Cup in Qatar for uniting fans from across the globe. Beckham played...

Qatar has expressed its rejection of attempts to associate the Gulf State with misconduct, Al Jazeera has reported. The government in Doha is apparently furious at a Belgian investigation...

Palestinians watch the World Cup 2022 final which saw Argentina beat France on 18 December 2022.

Today marks the Final day of the 2022 Football World Cup in Doha, Qatar

Morocco's dream run at the 2022 FIFA World Cup ended in defeat as Croatia held on for a 2-1 win in the third-place playoff on Saturday, reports Anadolu Agency....

Although Palestinians had no official presence at the Qatar 2022 World Cup, the Palestinian flag was impossible to avoid, flown in the streets, waved in the stadiums and draped on the shoulders of some of football's biggest stars. As Palestine's Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour remarked, 'the winner of this World Cup is already known. It is Palestine.'

The 2022 World Cup has been an occasion of many historic firsts. It began as the first tournament to be hosted in an Arab nation, the first to be held...