Former England youth international Ashleigh Plumptre has gotten approval from world football governing body, FIFA to switch allegiance to Nigeria. The 23-year-old, who plays for Women’s...
A whopping £3.3billion, around N1.789trillion, would be the extra revenue generated by world football governing body, FIFA, if World Cup is held once every two years...
World football governing body, FIFA has dismissed appeals from South Africa and Benin Republic relating to decisive 2022 World Cup qualifying matches involving the teams. Bafana...
The Confederation of African Football (CAF) has again voiced its support for the proposed plans of hosting the FIFA World Cup biennially. The continental football house...
Sepp Blatter and Michel Platini, who are former officials of the world football governing body, Fifa, have been charged with fraud and other offences in Switzerland....
World football governing body, FIFA is hoping that by December, 2021, the debates around holding the World every two years rather than four years, will be...
Belgium goalkeeper, Thibaut Courtois has accused European and World football governing bodies, UEFA and FIFA of prioritising money over the welfare of players. Courtois, who also...
World football governing body, FIFA is set to hold a summit with its member associations to discuss the international men’s and women’s calendar. The summit is...
Gianni Infantino has hailed football’s uniting qualities, the power of the sport’s development and the growth of women’s football on a two-day visit to Nigeria. Mr...
The Super Eagles of Nigeria maintained the 34th position in the latest FIFA world rankings released on Thursday. The Gernot Rohr men had dropped to 34...
Japan has pulled out of hosting the Club World Cup in December, 2021 because of Covid-19 restrictions in the country. World football governing body, FIFA said...
The World Leagues Forum (WLF) has expressed their rejection of the idea of a biennial World Cup being pushed for by world football governing body, FIFA....
World football governing body, FIFA has opened up a disciplinary action against the Brazil and Argentina national teams following their suspended clash last Sunday. Ripples Nigeria...
World football governing body, FIFA has revealed how it plans to spend the forfeited $201m that it will be receiving from the US Department of Justice....
Football’s world governing body FIFA has written to a number of governments to request the emergency evacuation of female players from Afghanistan. Players are said to...
President Patrice Motsepe of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has given reasons why Africa is in support of a two-yearly FIFA World Cup. Talks are...
The forthcoming women’s football tourney tagged Aisha Buhari Cup will be having the Presidents of FIFA and of CAF in attendance. Gianni Infantino, President of world...
European countries, Spain and Portugal are set to make a joint bid to host the 2030 FIFA men’s World Cup. This was confirmed during a symbolic...
The world football body, FIFA has postponed the 2022 World Cup qualifiers for Africa, which was scheduled to hold in June, due to the coronavirus pandemic...
The latest FIFA World Ranking released on Wednesday for March has seen Nigeria moving four steps up from 36th to 32nd position. According to a statement...
FIFA has extended the ban on its former president, Sepp Blatter, and former secretary-general, Jerome Valcke by eight years and six months, in a case related...
Former Arsenal manager, Arsene Wenger has made a call to world football governing body, FIFA, to consider hosting the senior men’s World Cup once in two...
FIFA President, Gianni Infantino, has raised concerns about the issue of match manipulation, saying with the financial strains of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a need to...
African champions, Al Ahly were knocked out of the FIFA Club World Cup on Monday after they lost 2-0 to European champions, Bayern Munich. Reigning FIFA...
The African continent would be represented by at least four teams at the expanded FIFA Women’s World Cup which would begin from the 2023 edition. The...
World football’s governing body, FIFA has again lodged a criminal complaint against its former president, Sepp Blatter over the finances of a museum in Zurich, Switzerland....
Football’s world governing body, FIFA has dismissed as spurious, the allegation that its president, Gianni Infantino used a private jet three years ago. “There are clear...
The social media space on Monday accommodated a range of topics, with issues on the country’s politics and governance making top trends. The names of top...
President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF), Ahmad has been handed a five-year ban by the world football governing body, FIFA. The former Malawi football...
World football governing body, FIFA has moved this season’s Club World Cup from December 2020 to February 2021 because of Covid-19 restrictions. The new 1-11 February...
Amaju Pinnick has revealed that the football house received a total of USD1,000,000.00 as COVID-19 palliatives from world football governing body, FIFA. The president of the...
Gianni Infantino, president of world football governing body FIFA, has tested positive for COVID-19 and has gone into self-isolation. The Swiss-Italian’s condition was revealed by FIFA...
Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) club, Rivers United have rejected the final standings of the 2020 season of the league. The season was ended prematurely due...
The option of making up to five substitutions in a game will not be available for English Premier League teams in the 2020-21 season. The clubs...
The world football governing body, FIFA has voiced its support for the embattled president of the organization, Gianni Infantino, who is currently being investigated. Swiss prosecutors,...
Swiss Prosecutors have launched a probe against Gianni Infantino, the president of the world football governing body, FIFA. According to reports, it is in relation to...
The hosting rights of the next edition of the FIFA Women’s World Cup have been handed to Australia and New Zealand. Both countries will co-host the...
Late Nigerian striker, Rashidi Yekini has been rated a better forward compared to Ghana’s Anthony Yeboah in an online poll by world football governing body, FIFA....
English Premier League champions, Manchester City will get to know their fate following their appeal against a ban handed to them by Europe’s football governing body,...
World football governing body, FIFA has confirmed the postponement of its annual The Best awards due to the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the world. The ceremony, which...
Super Eagles coach, Gernot Rohr has welcomed the temporary change in number of substitutions allowed in a football match by world football governing body, FIFA. IFAB...
The FIFA youth women’s World Cups are the latest of sporting fiestas to be postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The U-17 and U-20 women competitions...
The proposal by world governing body FIFA to allow teams make up to five substitutions during matches, has beeen approved by rule making body, IFAB. This...
President of Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has clarified that the money to be recieved from FIFA during the coronavirus pandemic is not a relief...
The world football governing body, FIFA is pushing for football matches to allow use of five substitutions per team instead of three that is currently being...
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), like every other member association of the world football governing body FIFA, is set to receive the sum of $500,000 (about...
With some leagues around the world already looking at resuming amid the coronavirus pandemic, world football governing body FIFA has reiterated its stand. Football activities across...
World football governing body, FIFA has been hit with a fresh bribery scandal as some ex-executives have been accused of receiving bribes. The former executives took...
FIFA president, Gianni Infantino says football fixtures are likely to be postponed or played behind closed doors to prevent the spread of coronavirus. The next international...
A record $7.35bn was spent on transfers in men’s football during 2019, according to a report by world governing body FIFA. The figure is an increase...
