Marco Silva agrees to become Benfica's new head coach as the Portuguese club formalises Jose Mourinho's departure for Real Madrid.
With a World Cup winner at the helm in Fabio Cannavaro, the White Wolves make their tournament debut This article is part of the Guardian’s 2026 World Cup Experts’ Network , a cooperation between some of the best media organisations from the 48 countries who qualified. theguardian.com is running previews from three countries each day in the run-up to the tournament kicking off on 11 June. Continue reading...
England beat Ukraine 3-0 on Tuesday night but it did not matter what they did as automatic qualification for the 2027 Women's World Cup was out of their hands.
Real Madrid scout Arsenal's Riccardo Calafiori, Tottenham consider Juventus defender Gleison Bremer, Manchester United chase Newcastle's Lewis Hall, plus more.
Lancashire Lightning, Essex and Northants Steelbacks all pick up wins in the T20 Blast.
Real Madrid reveal they have made offer for Argentinian Benfica say José Mourinho going to Real for €15m fee Real Madrid have revealed they have had a €150m (£129.4m) bid for Julián Alvarez rejected by city rivals Atlético Madrid. The Argentina striker has scored 49 goals in 106 appearances for Atlético since joining from Manchester City in 2024. The 26-year-old, whose contract runs until 2030, reportedly wants to leave and has been linked with Arsenal and Barcelona. Florentino Pérez vowed before his reelection as Real’s president to submit a club-record offer for an unnamed “great player”. Continue reading...
A TV camera suspended by wires fell on to the pitch during Hungary's friendly against Kazakhstan at Nagyerdei Stadium in Debrecen, forcing a brief stoppage in play.
Republic of Ireland manager Carla Ward reacts with pride to the World Cup qualifying campaign as her side fall just short of an automatic place at next year's tournament.
The decision followed a safeguarding investigation opened by the the Football Association.
Playing Argentina and South Africa away from home before Fiji at Murrayfield on consecutive July weekends is a daunting prospect for Scotland in the inaugural Nations Championship.
Serena Williams makes a triumphant return to professional tennis at the Queen's Club, securing a first-round doubles victory alongside Canada's Victoria Mboko. Playing on the Andy Murray Arena, the 44-year-old American icon inspired the crowd by declaring "you can do anything at any age" following their victory.
England head coach Thomas Tuchel says Bukayo Saka's fitness is being managed with a "little bit of care" heading into the World Cup.
Arsenal forward still struggling with achilles injury ‘Bukayo is just not there yet. Some things are missing’ Bukayo Saka continues to play through the pain of an achilles injury, according to the England manager, Thomas Tuchel, and must be managed carefully as the start of the World Cup looms large. The Arsenal winger joined up with the England squad in West Palm Beach on Saturday after being given an extra week off after his involvement in the Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain . Tuchel gave a similar break to his other Arsenal players Declan Rice, Eberechi Eze and Noni Madueke. Continue reading...
England 3-0 Ukraine Carter 14, Stanway 37, Mead 67 Sarina Wiegman calmly asserted that she was confident England will still qualify for next summer’s World Cup, despite having to settle for a place in the playoffs as Spain’s 6-1 win in Iceland forced England to finish in second spot. England cruised to victory over Ukraine on Merseyside but the result proved insignificant with Spain getting the result they needed. The Lionesses finish this group with 15 points from a possible 18 but miss out on a precious automatic spot in Brazil because of their inferior head-to-head record against Spain, after Friday’s humbling 4-0 loss in Mallorca. Continue reading...
Serena Williams and Victoria Mboko defeat third seeds Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Erin Routliffe to reach the second round at Queen's. The unseeded pair came through a tie-break in the opening set before racing away with the second set to win 7-6 (7-2) 6-2.
Northern Ireland debutant Emily Cassap says her strike just 66 seconds after her introduction was "probably the best goal I have ever scored".
Rhian Wilkinson says Wales have the potential to qualify for next year's Women's World Cup after they beat the Czech Republic to claim top spot in Group B1.
Serena Williams rolls back the years at Queen's with a winning performance on her comeback to tennis after 1,375 days away from the sport.
Emma Raducanu begins her Wimbledon preparations with a promising straight-set victory at Queen's.while Katie Boulter fights back for a deserved win.
Watch the highlights as Scotland beat Israel 5-1, with Caroline Weir scoring four goals in Hungary to top their Women's World Cup qualifying group ahead of Belgium and win promotion to League A for the next Nations League.
Watch highlights as group winners Switzerland finish their World Cup qualifying campaign with a 2-1 win over Northern Ireland in Lurgan.
Videos show Spurs fans having jerseys ripped off Players from both teams say incidents are unacceptable Players from both teams in the NBA finals have condemned apparent attacks on San Antonio Spurs fans by supporters of the New York Knicks. Videos circulating on social media showed Spurs fans having their jerseys ripped off on the streets of New York in the aftermath of the Knicks’ loss in Game 3 of the finals at Madison Square Garden. Continue reading...
Watch highlights as Wales beat Czech Republic in Cardiff in Women's World Cup qualifying.
Questioned in France but championed from afar, the departing head coach has forged a legacy that no one – bar, perhaps, himself – would dare dispute Follow the verdant path towards the Château de Clairefontaine and you are met by a three-metre replica of the World Cup trophy accompanied by two stars, representing France’s World Cup triumphs. Didier Deschamps had his hand in both of them, captaining his side to victory in 1998 before repeating the feat as manager in 2018 . The ‘98 World Cup final was France’s first ever but Les Bleus have now participated in four of the last seven end games, with Deschamps involved in three of them. In North America, he will have one final shot at reaching another. These are the expectations, moulded by past success. Deschamps has taken France to three major finals in his 14-year stint as manager. “We’re among the favourites,” he says as he sits down for the interview. “It isn’t a taboo word for me. If we have this status today, which seems logical and legitimate to me, it’s because of everything that we have done, the results we achieved.” Continue reading...
44-year-old victorious alongside partner Victoria Mboko Pair win 7-6 (2), 6-2 over Melichar-Martinez and Routliffe At the most tense moment of Serena Williams’s comeback to professional tennis, the score uncertainly balanced at 5-5, 30-30, an audience member could no longer hold her tongue. Her voice booming across all corners of Andy Murray Arena, she shouted: “Come on Serena, come on Victoria. You got it!” From the stands, a sneering spectator responded by stating that he did not understand a single word of those cheers. Williams, however, understood perfectly. She nodded warmly towards the fan, then she stepped up to the baseline and fired down a 120mph service winner en route to a decisive hold. Continue reading...
Real Madrid make an offer of 150m euros (£130m) for striker Julian Alvarez, but city rivals Atletico Madrid turn it down.
Former victims’ commissioner says publication ‘deliberately came as close as possible to breaking the law’ David Sullivan’s Sport newspapers used sexualised images of underage girls as “bait for predatory men”, the former victims’ commissioner has said. Vera Baird spoke amid scrutiny of the newspapers’ ’Countdown to 16’ feature , where during Sullivan’s tenure as owner, models were pictured in lingerie and bikinis in the weeks before their 16th birthdays, until they could legally be shown topless. Continue reading...
With referee Omar Artan denied entry to the United States and worries over staff and supporters being turned back, what does this tell us about the World Cup?
Fifa has said it is working to "maximise opportunities for Iranian supporters to attend matches" after the country's World Cup group-stage ticket allocation was revoked just days before the tournament.
England captain considering his long-term future ECB continuing investigation into nightclub incident Ben Stokes is highly unlikely to be included in England’s squad for the second Test against New Zealand after the 35-year-old asked for space and time to consider his long-term future amid the fallout from a nightclub incident in the early hours of Monday morning. The England and Wales Cricket Board is determined to bring the latest furore surrounding the culture of the men’s Test team under control before the start of the Women’s World Cup on Friday, with a temporary end to Stokes’s time as captain expected to be confirmed when the squad is announced within the next 48 hours. Continue reading...
Wayne Rooney, Theo Walcott, Jermain Defoe, Kae Kurd and Kelly Somers assess England's wide options for the World Cup.
BBC Sport meets England fan Gus Hully who has collected one beer from each of the 48 nations competing at the World Cup.
Wolves re-sign striker Raul Jimenez from Premier League Fulham on a free transfer.
Thomas Taylor attacked Daniel Brookwell during a fifth-tier Welsh league match between Porthmadog FC and Trearddur Bay on 17 January.
Joe Dickerson is one of North America’s best referees, but he’ll be off the field in a high-pressure position when the World Cup begins • Predict the winner | Daily podcast | Download our app Joe Dickerson never set out to be a referee. As a player, he was told that reffing would be to make money on the side, learn responsibility, and – more pertinent to his team – learn the sport and begin to understand it on a granular level. Those early assignments in the San Jose area have blossomed into a career that saw Dickerson honored as US Soccer’s male referee of the year in 2025. All of it has been driven by his ability to drill into details – something he’ll be doing a lot of as a VAR official in the replay booth for this summer’s World Cup. Continue reading...
BBC Sport chief cricket commentator Jonathan Agnew says Ben Stokes and Gus Atkinson's drinking incident in a London nightclub is "not on" and the team has to be accountability over England's drinking culture.
Midnight bedtime was entirely a public relations exercise to reconnect with fans – the same fans the ECB invites to one long piss-up at Lord’s The laws of cricket run to more than 200 pages. The International Cricket Council’s Test playing regulations fill another 125, the anti-doping code packs another 66, the code of conduct is 44 more, illegal bowling actions 37, kit and equipment 36. You’d be hard pressed to find one single rule anywhere among them as silly as the one we know Ben Stokes has just broken, which stipulates that players can’t stay out past midnight. And yes, that does include ICC clothing regulation 19.45, which says that the maximum size of the manufacturer’s label permitted on ankle of players’ socks is two square inches. So far as we know, the only thing Stokes has done wrong is break this self-imposed curfew. That may change. The investigation may reveal more details about his alleged involvement in an altercation involving a rugby player. But if there was one very clear lesson from the last time Stokes was involved in a situation such as this, at Embargo nightclub in 2017 , it is that it’s worth waiting for the facts. But the drums have already started thumping. Dread phrases such as “hanging by a thread” and “hard to see how he can continue” were all over the press. Continue reading...
British and Irish Lions women's head coach Jo Yapp says she will pick the best possible side for the team's inaugural tour of New Zealand next summer. It could mean the team being heavily weighted towards world champions England.
Australia suffer only their second one-day international defeat by Bangladesh - and first for 21 years - in their series opener in Mirpur.
Latest news as World Cup countdown continues Player guide | Bracketology | Wallchart | Mail John Away from the World Cup , the latest allegations against the now former West Ham chairman have alerted the new regulator, as PA Media reports: The football regulator is in contact with West Ham after allegations were made against. the co-owner David Sullivan that he had pressured aspiring models for sex. The 77-year-old recently quit as chairman of the east London football club to fight what he claimed were “false allegations” about his conduct. According to the reporting, the claims about Mr Sullivan involve him pressuring young or aspiring models in their late teens or early 20s. The Times said it was a two-year investigation, which involved its reporters interviewing dozens of former models and other industry sources. Continue reading...
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