This is the third in a series on The Athletic looking back at the winners of each World Cup, from Uruguay in 1930 through to ...

Judges at the International Criminal Court want Hungary to explain why it failed to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited Budapest earlier ...

The FIFA World Cup has had some great players and teams. This includes not only those that have won the World Cup, but also a ...

The New Zealand veteran's first international goal effectively punched the ticket for 2026. Now the All Whites are thinking ...

FIFA takes a look at various World Cup records. This week, the spotlight is on a legendary coach who proved almost unbeatable at the global finals.

Norway beat Hungary 3-0 in a game of the two newly promoted teams at the women’s hockey world championship on Sunday.

South Africa’s U17 national team, the Amajimbos, have qualified for the 2025 FIFA U17 World Cup. This comes after they advanced to the knockout stage of the U17 Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON), despite ...

South African football continued its purple patch when the men's Under-17 national team qualified for the World Cup for only the second time in the country's history. The first generation to make the ...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says a 64-team World Cup in 2030 would be a “bad idea” for European nations and for the tournament itself. The concept was raised by a Uruguayan delegate at a FIFA ...

UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin says a 64-team World Cup in 2030 would be a “bad idea ... at a FIFA Council meeting last month, and football’s global governing body FIFA has since said ...