World football governing body, FIFA has today announced the new international match calendar for 2025 – 2030 at the ongoing 73rd edition of the FIFA Congress holding in Kigali. FIFA said the 2023 calendar would see the March international window have a two-match window in nine days, the June international […]
FIFA have reportedly made a surprising U-turn concerning the rainbow flag which will now no longer be prohibited at Qatar’s eight World Cup stadiums from the next round of matches. The host nation are said to have provided FIFA with assurances that supporters can enter stadiums wearing rainbow colors following […]
Brazil and Spain have progressed to the quarterfinals of the U-20 Women’s World Cup, but tournament hopefuls, Germany and USA have been eliminated from the competition in the group phase. Both the Germany and USA have won the competition three times, but failed to qualify this time around Colombia and […]
The attention of the Management of Rivers United football club of Port Harcourt has been drawn to a fictitious report being circulated in a section of the social media suggesting that our player Ishaq Rafiu Kayode has left the club. Such report is completely false and a product of the […]
Former FIFA President Sepp Blatter and former UEFA president, Michel Platini have both been cleared of corruption charges by a Swiss court today following a seven-year investigation during which they were banned from participating in any sporting activities. A judge said the pair’s account of a ‘gentlemen’s agreement’ for FIFA […]
Leicester City’s Ademola Lookman has been cleared by FIFA to play for Nigerian national team, super eagles. The English-born Lookman has been in the process of switching international allegiance for a while, but has had to wait for FIFA’s approval. And according to reports, the world football governing body, FIFA […]
The international body governing world football, FIFA has banned Ghanaian lower league club Phar Rangers FC from participating in the transfer window for failing to comply with a decision of FIFA’s Player Status Committee. The club was ordered by FIFA to make payment of Thousands of Dollars to a foreign […]
Football’s world governing body, FIFA has announced it’s willingness to try out a dedicated offside Video Assistant Referee which is a semi-automatic detection of offside using specialised cameras at the Arab Cup in Qatar. It would work using a camera system that would be set up on the roof of […]
The FIFA Council has approved December 20th for a global summit on the international calendar – and principally the proposal for the World Cups to occur every two years. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is said to be “confident” that a consensus can be reached on the global calendar at the event, […]
European country, Hungary has been fined 200,000 Swiss franc and a ban on fans for their next two home matches by FIFA after the racist behaviour of their fans towards English players. This was announced by FIFA in relation to the racist behaviour of numerous supporters” during the game at […]
