Australia coach Tony Popovic rang the changes Friday for the Socceroos' crunch World Cup qualifiers, calling up six uncapped ...

Mali coach Tom Saintfiet hopes to break new ground by guiding the Eagles to the Fifa World Cup finals for the first time.

Victor Osimhen admits not qualifying for the World Cup is something Nigeria "cannot let happen again" ahead of their two 2026 ...

Apart from hosts Pakistan, Bangladesh, Ireland, Scotland, Thailand and West Indies will compete for the last two spots in the ...

Claim Here We’ve got a shorter wait than usual for the biggest spectacle in world football after the drama of Qatar 2022 ... qualifying, we’ve already seen some countries’ World Cup hopes ...

European champions Spain take on France, Poland and Finland while Portugal play Italy, Hungary and Sweden as four World Cup slots are decided. Europe's four contenders at the inaugural FIFA Futsal ...

Liverpool's Wataru Endo and Brighton's Kaoru Mitoma were on Thursday named in Japan's squad as they look to become the first ...

The 35-year-old has played a staggering 29 World Cup qualifiers, as well as six further play-off matches. Ukraine suffered heartbreak at the final stage of South Africa 2010, Brazil 2014 and Qatar ...

Benni McCarthy was a first-team coach at Manchester United for two seasons between 2022 and 2024 Benni McCarthy has said ...

which is now amalgamated into the general qualifying pool. For instance, in the 2022 World Cup, Asia enjoyed five places, encompassing four automatic slots and an additional one for Qatar as hosts.

Japan hold a nine-point lead in Asian qualifying Group C and victories over Bahrain on March 20 and the Saudis five days later in Saitama would assure them of a spot at the World Cup finals for ...

Fifa is considering increasing the number of teams at the World Cup to 64 for the 2030 tournament, which would double the ...