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              FIFA Men's World Cup

              • Monday, 6 January, 2025
                News in-depthSaudi Arabia
                World Cup award adds pressure to Saudi Arabia’s construction challenge

                Sporting plans bulk out kingdom’s project pipeline as it seeks to reduce dependence on oil revenues

                A general view inside the Saudi Arabia World Cup bid exhibition in Riyadh
              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                Fifa confirms Saudi Arabia as host of 2034 World Cup

                Kingdom’s unopposed bid for sporting event ratified by football’s governing body on Wednesday

                Saudi Arabia fans with a replica of the World Cup during the 2022 tournament in Qatar
              • Monday, 26 August, 2024
                Sven-Goran Eriksson
                Football manager Sven-Goran Eriksson dies after battle with cancer

                The first foreign coach to lead the England team, the affable Swede was held in high regard for helping to improve performance

                Sven-Goran Eriksson
              • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
                Uefa Men's European championship
                The case for an England victory in the Euros

                Dull passing game has dogged favourites until quarter-finals but easier route leaves them well placed for glory

                Montage including Gareth Southgate, Jude Bellingham and John Stones
              • Friday, 14 June, 2024
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                The scarcity value of top-class football

                Players are complaining about the number of fixtures. They have a point

                Hong Kong fans were left disappointed after Lionel Messi sat out a friendly in February
              • Friday, 14 June, 2024
                Men's Euro 2024
                Europe’s superpower is football not politics

                Favourites France and England and underdogs Ukraine and Georgia play against backdrop of domestic upheaval

              • Monday, 4 March, 2024
                Football
                German ex-football officials on trial over suspicious 2006 World Cup payments

                Prosecutors allege defendants masked money flows involving Franz Beckenbauer and Qatari official

                Franz Beckenbauer in 2006
              • Friday, 3 November, 2023
                News in-depth
                ‘The pieces fell into place’: how Saudi Arabia won football’s World Cup

                Sponsorship diplomacy, intensive lobbying and Fifa rule changes cleared path for Gulf kingdom to host 2034 event

                Fifa president Gianni Infantino and Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
              • Tuesday, 31 October, 2023
                Fifa names Saudi Arabia as sole bidder for 2034 football World Cup

                Move will accelerate kingdom’s push into football and broader expansion into global sport

                Former Ballon d’Or winner Karim Benzema in action for Saudi Arabian club Al-Ittihad
              • Thursday, 5 October, 2023
                Momentum builds for Saudi Arabia’s bid to host football World Cup

                Riyadh could emerge as sole bidder for 2034 tournament after decision to spread 2030 edition across 3 continents

                Asian Football Confederation president Shaikh Salman bin Ebrahim Al Khalifa, Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, FIFA president Gianni Infantino, and Russia’s president Vladimir Putin (L-R) during the opening ceremony prior to the 2018 FIFA World Cup
              • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
                Spain, Portugal and Morocco to host 2030 World Cup

                Euro 2028 men’s tournament set to be awarded to UK and Ireland after Turkey withdraws from bidding

                Lionel Messi lifts the trophy after Argentina won the 2022 World Cup
              • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
                Spain
                Spanish women’s football team manager sacked in forced kiss fallout

                Jorge Vilda praised by federation as its disgraced chief Luis Rubiales clings on to job despite suspension

                Spain’s team coach Jorge Vilda and Spanish Football Federation president Luis Rubiales pose for a photograph with players
              • Monday, 28 August, 2023
                Football
                Spain’s regional football bosses call for Rubiales to quit over World Cup kiss

                Unanimous move leaves game’s national president even more isolated as prosecutors consider action

              • Sunday, 27 August, 2023
                Football
                Corporate sponsors turn against Spain football chief over World Cup kiss

                Companies distance themselves from Luis Rubiales, who has been suspended over his actions after last weekend’s match

                Women outside the Royal Spanish Football Federation’s headquarters in Madrid demand the resignation of its president Luis Rubiale
              • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
                Football
                Fifa suspends head of Spanish football over World Cup kiss

                Luis Rubiales barred from contacting Spanish player Jenni Hermoso while governing body investigates

                Luis Rubiales and Jenni Hermoso
              • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
                Football
                Spain seeks to suspend football chief over World Cup kiss as stars refuse to play

                Luis Rubiales attacks ‘false feminism’ amid torrent of criticism over his embrace of Jenni Hermoso after victory in final

                Luis Rubiales grabs Spain midfielder Jenni Hermoso’s head and kisses her on the lips following the country’s Women’s World Cup triumph
              • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
                Fifa kicks off race to host next football Women’s World Cup

                Brazil, Germany and US keen to hold 2027 event, as governing body aims to build on success of Australia-led tournament

                Spanish players jump on each other on the ground while other team members run forwards. England players look despondent in the background
              • Monday, 21 August, 2023
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                The great opportunity of women’s football

                After a record-breaking World Cup, authorities must get serious about the female game

                Spain players celebrate with the trophy after winning the World Cup
              • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
                Spain beat England 1-0 to become Women’s World Cup champions

                Goal by captain Olga Carmona makes La Roja the first European winners since 2007

                The Spanish team lifts the trophy
              • Saturday, 19 August, 2023
                ‘It boils down to money’: England and Spain prepare for Women’s World Cup face-off

                The finalists have boosted spending to become magnets for global talent

                Spain’s Salma Paralluelo, left, who scored in the semi-final victory against Sweden, and England’s Ella Toone, who broke the deadlock against the Matildas
              • Friday, 18 August, 2023
                Football
                Infantino sparks World Cup backlash with comments on football equality

                Fifa chief talks of women’s need to ‘convince us men’ ahead of final of successful tournament

                Fifa chief Gianni Infantino watches a world cup game in Australia
              • Friday, 18 August, 2023
                Lex
                Women’s football: US grassroots game outgunned by European money Premium content

                Since the 2019 World Cup investment has ramped up to develop the sport across Europe

                A group of fans watch the 2023 SheBelieves Cup  football match between the US and Brazil
              • Wednesday, 16 August, 2023
                England beat co-hosts Australia to reach Women’s World Cup final

                Lionesses set up clash against Spain with 3-1 victory in front of 75,000 fans in Sydney

                England’s players celebrate after their victory in the World Cup semi-final in Sydney
              • Monday, 14 August, 2023
                Sport
                Neymar joins Saudi’s Al-Hilal from PSG, says state-owned media

                Acquisition of Neymar symbolic of how kingdom has flaunted financial might in world’s most popular sport

                Brazilian football star Neymar
              • Saturday, 12 August, 2023
                Person in the News
                Sarina Wiegman: a cool-headed coach with World Cup glory in her sights

                The Dutch manager has inspired England’s Lionesses with tactical savvy, playfulness and the spirit of victory

                Joe Cummings illustration of Person in the News  Sarina Wiegman
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