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Minister of Youth and Sports Rachid Talbi El-Alami said yesterday that Morocco is ready ready to submit its application to host the 2026 World Cup. At a press conference...

The Egyptian Football Association faces being suspended by FIFA for organising a pro-Sisi conference on Sunday where it expressed its support for the current president of Egypt who is...

Qatar has agreed to transfer this month's Gulf Cup of Nations soccer tournament back to Kuwait after FIFA lifted a two-year ban on the country's football association, state news...

The Palestinian national football team has beaten Israel in the world rankings for the first time, despite Israel restricting its development, according to Haaretz. The Israeli national team was...

Head of the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) Jibril Al-Rajoub yesterday commended FIFA's decision not to impose sanctions of Israel's Football Association following the entry of six teams which are...

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...

The deputy secretary-general of Bahrain's opposition Al-Wefaq National Islamic Society said "there is no place for Zionists in Bahrain" after the country's authorities decided to host an Israeli delegation to take part...

The United Nations' special adviser on sport for development and peace, Wilfried Lemke, has affirmed in a letter to FIFA that Israeli settlements are illegal under international law. The...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) has accused FIFA, the worldwide football association, of "holding games on stolen land", in a new report on Israeli football clubs based in illegal West...

Israeli permission to leave Gaza Strip is becoming much harder to come by, according to aid workers, activists

Glasgow Celtic Football Club is arguably Scotland's most famous and successful team, but rarely does it make headlines beyond the sports pages; until now. Celtic's fans have demonstrated an...

Sport is often regarded as a "no go" area for politics, especially by those states intent on portraying an air of normality around their regimes on the world stage....

The 50th anniversary of the 1966 World Cup Final played at Wembley has produced misty-eyed memories for a number of us old enough to recall that certain football match...

Responding to criticism over his failure to appoint a foreign minister since March, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Knesset State Control Committee on Monday that "Israel's ties...

The remarkable claim by trade unionists that more than 7,000 workers will die on construction sites in Qatar before the first game of the 2022 World Cup kicks off...

The Palestinian sports ministry yesterday called on FIFA to put pressure on the Israeli occupation to stop its violations against Palestinian sportsmen and athletes, Quds Press reported. Speaking to...

A man who may have ordered footballers in his own country to be tortured runs for the presidency of the most important footballing organisation in the world, and the...