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UEFA’s cash distribution from the Champions League is continuing to help the same clubs monopolise national leagues across Europe according to new research for Play the Game.

The most important battle in football this fall is not between Norway and Portugal or Barcelona and Real Madrid. It is the battle between the great powers that seek to host the World Cup in 2018 and 2022.

A new study entitled “Using Football for HIV/AIDS Prevention in Africa”, has found that football-based programmes aiming to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS has proved to be very successful.

A.T. Kearney has recently released the EU Football Sustainability Study. The study claims that clubs in the biggest leagues in Europe have the potential to go bankrupt if nothing is done. It argues that unless stricter financial...

The World Cup is undoubtedly over. It is time for reflection. I want to speculate on the future of the football World Cup based on this year's tournament. Will the World Cup be destroyed by political disputes?

TCU, a budget watchdog in Brazil, has described Brazil’s preparations for the 2014 World Cup as “impressively late” according to Khaleej Times Online. In the report TCU found that work on stadiums, adjacent roads and urban...

It is not football. It is the game of deliberate diplomatic deniability. The game is all about making truthful statements that do not ruffle any official feathers. Here is how it is played. Examine this section of FIFA’s...

In case you missed it BBC Newsnight has announced that FIFA was warned that the Nigerian team may have been vulnerable to fixing games at the 2010 South Africa World Cup.

The president of Somalia’s transitional federal government (TFG) Sheik Sharif sheik Ahmed on Monday vehemently condemned overnight’s twin blasts in the Ugandan capital Kambala which killed at least 64 world cup fans.

The Football Federation Australia (FFA) has been cleared of corruption allegations to its bids for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups.