Football

RIYADH: The Saudi Arabia women’s national team ended its 2024 West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Women’s Championship campaign with a 2-0 defeat against Guam on Friday night. With qualification out...

CAIRO: The draw for the preliminary round of Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers for next year's tournament in Morocco was conducted in Cairo on Tuesday barely a week after the...

ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast became the first tournament hosts to reach the final since Egypt in 2006 at the Africa Cup of Nations. It has been one of the many peculiarities...

RIYADH: Saudi Arabia will host the 2024 West Asian Football Federation (WAFF) Women’s Championship this month – the first official 11-a-side women’s tournament ever held in the Kingdom. A milestone...

DOHA: The Asian Football Confederation (AFC) President Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa congratulated Indonesia after they were crowned champions of the inaugural AFC eAsian Cup at Doha’s Virtuocity eSports...

BARCELONA: Barcelona manager Xavi Hernandez said that he felt "liberated" after announcing his decision to step down at the end of the season, adding that the pressure and demands of the job...

ABIDJAN: Morocco coach Walid Regragui's two-match suspension at the Africa Cup of Nations has been dismissed after an appeal, his country’s football federation said on Friday. Regragui had been given...

MADRID: Athletic Bilbao beat Barcelona 4-2 at home to knock them out of the Copa del Rey on Wednesday as brothers Inaki and Nico Williams struck in extra time in...

BOUAKE, Ivory Coast: Mauritania served up another shock result at this year’s Africa Cup of Nations finals to dump 2019 winners Algeria out of the tournament with a 1-0 victory...

DOHA: Favourites Saudi Arabia face Oman in a Group F match at the AFC Asian Cup here at Khalifa International Stadium on Tuesday. Head coach Mancini had led a then...