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Ukraine will join Spain and Portugal in a joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA World Cup, the Spanish and Portuguese federations said on Wednesday. Both associations communicated their plans to European ruling body UEFA, which “immediately…

Amnesty International has said that staging the 2030 men’s World Cup in Saudi Arabia would be “virtually impossible” if FIFA correctly applies its human rights criteria to any bid the Gulf nation makes. The Middle Eastern country, widely…

The world’s biggest football show moves to Arabian peninsula Qatar this fall. It is the first time the FIFA World Cup will be held in the Gulf region, albeit amid widespread reservation for the host nation’s predominantly conservative…

Former Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr, has said that the Nigeria Football Federation would have to pay him his outstanding salary with interest along with the current dollar rate following their delay in making the payment. The…

World football governing body FIFA said on Friday it would look into human rights violations reported at its official World Cup partner hotel groups. Human and labour rights charity Equidem and labour rights forum GLJ-ILRF had made…

Former FIFA president Joseph Blatter and former UEFA president Michel Platini were on Friday acquitted by the Swiss Federal Criminal Court in a FIFA fraud trial. The two ex-football officials had been charged by federal prosecutors in…

FIFA says it will use semi-automatic offside technology at the November to December World Cup to make video assistant decisions faster and more reliable. Football’s world governing body said on Friday that the system would be used in all…

The remaining tickets for the FIFA World Cup in Qatar, slated for later this year, will go on sale from July 5 on a first-come, first-served basis. Global football governing body FIFA said the tournament’s tickets would be available via…