•Bafana Bafana midfielder, Teboho Mokoena According to a report on the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) website, FIFA has officially opened disciplinary proceedings against the South African Football Association (SAFA) and Bafana Bafana midfielder, Teboho Mokoena. This is after Mokoena was fielded while under suspension in a 2026 ...
FIFA announced today a $355 million (300 million euros) pay-out to clubs releasing players for next year’s World Cup – a 70 percent hike on the 2022 edition. The new benefit scheme deal, reached in association with the powerful European Club Association (ECA), includes for the first time players involved in qualifiers but not figuring [&hellip...
South Africa’s Manager, Hugo Broos, is still confident that Bafana Bafana will make the 2026 World Cup from Group C despite the threat of a FIFA three-point sanction hanging over his team. South Africa leads Group C with 13 points with Rwanda and the Benin Republic on eight points each, while Nigeria, Lesotho, and Zimbabwe […]
•New FIFA Club world cup trophy With an eye-watering $1 billion in prize money, some of the biggest stars in the game and clubs competing from across the globe, FIFA’s new Club World Cup has all the ingredients to be a huge event. But the 32-team tournament, which will be played across the USA from […]
Fédération Internationale de Football Association, FIFA, announced yesterday the creation of a transfer window running from June 1 to 10 for all teams competing in this summer’s revamped Club World Cup. “All 20 Member Associations whose clubs will participate in FIFA’s groundbreaking competition have confirmed the opening of an exceptional reg...
A ban on Congo Brazzaville competing in international competitions has been lifted, a FIFA statement said yesterday. Congo were suspended last February due to government interference in the administration of football in the Central African nation. This prevented the ‘Red Devils’ playing 2026 World Cup qualifiers against Zambia and Tanzania in ...
The Football Kenya Federation (FKF) confirmed yesterday the relegation of a Kenyan club, Muhoroni Youth, after world governing body FIFA found the second-tier team guilty of match manipulation. It is the latest scandal to hit the sport in the east African country, long plagued by match-fixing, reports AFP. In a decision published yesterday, FI...
•World Cup trophy FIFA is set to confirm today that Saudi Arabia will host the 2034 World Cup while a joint bid by Morocco, Spain and Portugal which also features matches in South America will be awarded the 2030 tournament. The awarding of hosting rights for both tournaments will go to a vote during a […]
The draw for the expanded FIFA Club World Cup takes place in Miami tomorrow, offering a first glimpse into the fine detail of a tournament that has been viewed with indifference or even outright hostility across parts of the football world. Thirty-two star-studded club teams will battle it out in gleaming state-of-the-art arenas in what [&hell...
World football’s governing body FIFA made no verdict either way today on a Palestinian request to suspend Israel, instead launching committee investigations to inform an eventual decision. At FIFA’s congress in Bangkok in May, the Palestinian Football Association (PFA) called for its Israeli counterpart to be suspended and for Israeli teams to...
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