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World football body FIFA named the first World Cup Video Assistant Referees (VARs) on Monday, with three Italians included in ...

Massimo Busacca still remembers the sleepless nights. FIFA’s director of refereeing was himself a match official for 15 years and ...

FIFA has proposed that a revamped and enlarged version of the Club World Cup, would include all European champions, runners-up ...

Nigeria has moved five places up, now 47th in the world and sixth in Africa with 635 points in the ...

A former medical doctor in the Nigerian U-17 football team, Dr Ayodeji Olarinoye, has been appointed Doping Control Officer (DCO) ...

Football ruling body FIFA is testing three possible new rules including yellow cards for coaches at youth tournaments, according to ...

Germany dropped out of the top two in the FIFA women’s rankings for the first time since 2009 after a ...

PAOK Salonika president Ivan Savvides on Wednesday faced disciplinary charges that could lead to a lengthy stadium ban and a ...

Banned former FIFA president, Sepp Blatter, intends to ask the ethics committee of the global football body to reconsider his ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday urged law enforcement officers to ensure the safety of athletes and fans in Russia ...

FIFA said on Friday it has every confidence in its security measures at the 2018 World Cup in Russia after ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, on Monday evening said that the State has the capacity to host international football ...

Nigeria have dropped further one spot  in the latest FIFA rankings released by the football governing body on Thursday. The ...

FIFA on Friday confirmed the list of Team Base Camps (TBCs) for the 32 teams which will participate in the 2018 ...

FIFA’s ethics watchdog has provisionally banned Marco Polo Del Nero, the head of Brazil’s football association, for 90 days, the ...

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), on Wednesday, said it has started looking into the issues which led to Nigeria being ...

Three-quarters of a million tickets for the 2018 World Cup have been allocated before the countries have been drawn into ...

FIFA’s ethics watchdogs have banned three former football officials from Guam, Nicaragua and Venezuela for life as part of efforts ...

Just 24 hours after resuming ticket sales for the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, a total of 159,402 tickets have ...

FIFA has extended its rights deal with China’s state broadcaster which has run since the 1978 World Cup. The global ...