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The Egyptian Football Association (EFA) announced on Wednesday, November 27th the appointment of Shawky Gharib as Egypt’s national team new…

The 2013 Cecafa Challenge Cup opened in Kenya on Wednesday 27 November with hosts and Ethiopia playing a 0-0 draw…

Updated Nov 28, 2013 5:45 PM ET   SAO PAULO (AP) A safety engineer at the World Cup stadium where a giant crane collapse killed two workers allegedly warned his supervisor of possible problems with the operation, only to have his concerns brushed…

Tottenham Hotspur won 2-0 against Tromso in the bitter chill of Norway on Thursday to seal first place in Europa League Group K and ease a little of the pressure on manager Andre Villas-Boas. Reports in England in recent days suggest that the Portuguese…

Jack Wilshere said Thursday that Cesc Fabregas had been Arsenal’s greatest loss of recent times in the transfer market. The England midfielder said he was “really upset” when the Spain star left the London club for Barcelona in 2011. And Wilshere insisted…

Hungarian football champions Gyori ETO found an original way to punish their players after an embarrassing defeat, by confiscating the keys to their high-end cars, a media report said Thursday. The management of the club, which took its fourth Hungarian…

Four-time World Player of the Year Lionel Messi will travel to his native Argentina on Friday to continue his recuperation from a torn hamstring, his club Barcelona confirmed on Thursday. Messi suffered his third and most serious muscle injury of the…

Senegal set up a final meeting with Ghana in the 2013 West Africa Football Union (WAFU) Zone ‘B’ tournament after…

A senior Nigerian football official has been banned for 10 years for corruption, the country’s football federation announced late Monday. A Nigerian Football Federation (NFF) emergency committee handed Leye Adepoju the sanction excluding him from all…

© Getty Images The FIFA Appeal Committee yesterday decided to reject the appeal lodged by the Football Federation of Ukraine…

Hosts Ghana have reached the final of the WAFU Zone ‘B’ tournament after a 2-1 win over neighbours Burkina Faso…

Villarreal’s Nigerian forward Ikechukwu Uche, Torino’s Moroccan midfielder Omar El Kaddouri and Cameroonian striker Vincent Aboubakar of Lorient were the…

Zambia achieved a first in women’s football with qualification for the 2014 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in Costa Rica.The…

Akonangui FC have been crowned champions of the Equatorial Guinea National Football League for the 2013 season.They beat The Panthers…

The Zimbabwean Premier Soccer League Championship was decided on the last day of play (Sunday 24 November) and defending champions…

Zambia’s Under/17 women side shattered ’s their South African counterparts’ high hopes of qualifying for the World Cup in Costa…

The Confederation of African Football (CAF) announces 30th November 2013 deadline for National Associations to confirm club engagements in next…

With a national workshop in Colombia and a regional workshop in Algeria, FIFA’s Security Division has brought its workshop activities…

The FIFA Interactive World Cup success story continues to develop, with the event being honoured with two significant industry accolades in recent weeks. The FIWC was once again named by the Guinness World Records as the largest online gaming tournament in the world and received the Football Brand of the Year Award at the Football…

© Getty Images FIFA and the National Organising Committee are pleased to announce a sponsorship agreement with Labatt Breweries of Canada. Labatt is the second National Supporter of the FIFA Women’s World Cup Canada 2015™. The agreement provides Labatt with extensive marketing rights within Canada for the next edition of the flagship tournament in women’s…