Real Madrid down Brest to earn Champions League playoff seeding

Holders Real Madrid made sure they would be seeded for Friday's Champions League playoff draw by beating Stade Brest 3-0 away in the last round of the first phase on Wednesday.
29 January 2025, 22:21 PM

Dembele hattrick helps PSG ensure playoff spot

Ousmane Dembele scored a hattrick as Paris Saint-Germain romped to a 4-1 win at Stuttgart, qualifying themselves for the Champions League playoffs.
29 January 2025, 22:12 PM

Man City rally to avoid Champions League exit, face Real or Bayern next

Manchester City saved themselves from an embarrassing early Champions League exit with three second-half goals to beat Club Brugge 3-1 on Wednesday.
29 January 2025, 22:08 PM

‘No obstacles for women footballers’: BFF calls for action against mob 

The Bangladesh Football Federation (BFF) stated that it disapproves of the vandalism that took place to force off the women’s football match at the Tilakpur High School ground in Joypurhat's Akkelpur upazila on Tuesday.
29 January 2025, 14:26 PM

Women's training rocked by boycott

Some senior women footballers today skipped the national team’s training session under reappointed English coach Peter Butler ahead of their upcoming FIFA friendly matches in February-March.
29 January 2025, 11:49 AM

Rest more important than top spot for Slot's Liverpool

Liverpool cannot slip out of the top two in the Champions League standings, leading Arne Slot to rest a host of first-team regulars.
29 January 2025, 06:07 AM

Barca's Balde clueless about Atalanta's Gasperini

Balde was full of praise for Atalanta, who won last season's Europa League, but was left stumped by an Italian journalist's other question about their coach Gian Piero Gasperini's style of play at a press conference on Tuesday.
29 January 2025, 04:03 AM

A frantic finale awaits

Manchester City are 25th in the standings -- a place away from play-off spots -- and Pep Guardiola’s men must need a win at home against Club Brugge to sneak into the top 24.
29 January 2025, 03:16 AM

Real Madrid 'yet to show their best', warns Ancelotti

The reigning champions of Europe are ensured of their place in at least the knockout play-off round as the league phase of the revamped Champions League wraps up with its final matchday this week.
29 January 2025, 02:50 AM

Santos president tells Neymar it's 'time to come home'

Santos' president told Brazilian superstar Neymar it was "time to return to (his) people" in a video published on social media on Tuesday.
28 January 2025, 20:30 PM

Girls’ football match called off after venue vandalised

A women’s football match scheduled for today in Joypurhat’s Akkelpur upazila has been called off after some locals and madrasa students vandalised the venue at Tilakpur High School ground yesterday.
28 January 2025, 19:08 PM

Guardiola wary of financial hit if Man City fail to advance

City have reached the Champions League knockout stages every season since Guardiola took the helm in 2016, but they are in danger of missing out with the new format this year where they sit 25th in the standings -- outside even the playoff spots.
28 January 2025, 14:53 PM

Brothers back in Fed Cup last four after 20 years

Brothers last made it to the semifinals in 2005 when they won their third Federation Cup title.
28 January 2025, 14:19 PM

Rashford should be 'banished' from Man Utd dressing room, says club legend Scholes

Scholes' comments follow similarly strong remarks from former United defender Rio Ferdinand, who said on the Rio Ferdinand Presents podcast that there was "no way back" for Rashford following Amorim's comments.
28 January 2025, 12:38 PM

Neymar and Al-Hilal agree to terminate contract: club

"The club expresses its thanks and appreciation to Neymar for what he has provided throughout his career with Al-Hilal, and wish the player success in his career," said a club statement posted on social media.
28 January 2025, 04:07 AM

Hamza now ‘Bangladeshi blade’ as Sheffield seal loan deal

The midfielder, who recently declared to play for Bangladesh the country of his mother’s birth, follows striker Tom Cannon to Bramall Lane as Leicester free up funds to add to Ruud van Nistelrooy’s squad before the end of the transfer window.
28 January 2025, 03:49 AM

Ibra denies Conceicao-Calabria rift at Milan after on-pitch row

Raging Conceicao and Calabria had to be kept apart by coaching staff and teammates while fans celebrated Milan's improbable stoppage-time comeback to beat Parma 3-2 on Sunday.
27 January 2025, 18:33 PM

Messi hints at 'Barcelona return' after Miami stint

For now, the Argentine is focused on Inter Miami’s upcoming season and the FIFA Club World Cup in 2026.
27 January 2025, 18:15 PM

Belgian footballer Nainggolan arrested in cocaine trafficking probe

Former Belgian international Radja Nainggolan was arrested on Monday as part of an investigation into cocaine trafficking via the port of Antwerp, the Brussels prosecutor's office said.
27 January 2025, 13:57 PM

Women footballers to return to international action in February

Bangladesh women’s football team are set to play two FIFA friendly matches away to United Arab Emirates in late February, close to four months after retaining the SAFF Women’s Championship crown.
27 January 2025, 13:37 PM