‘A huge honour’: Socceroos World Cup star Alessandro Circati seals move to Benfica
Football | The Guardianby Australian Associated Press·1d ago
Young Socceroo Alessandro Circati has become the latest Australian international to be snapped up in a money-spinning European transfer, as he hailed his move from Parma to Benfica as a...
Premier League 2026-27 preview No 17: Newcastle
Football | The Guardianby Louise Taylor·1d ago
Guardian writers’ predicted position: 17th (NB: this is not necessarily Louise Taylor’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 12th Prospects As David Hopkinson...
Football Daily | Sensible soccer: are football clubs actually signing the players they need?
Football | The Guardianby Scott Murray·2d ago
ROSEBUD In the 1941 RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury repertory theatre production Citizen Kane, Orson Welles essayed a man who began as a whirlwind of prolific energy, only to spectacularly fizzle out...
Not just big in Japan: Zion Suzuki has what it takes to follow Emiliano Martínez
Football | The Guardianby John Duerden·2d ago
In November 2001, the first Japanese goalkeeper to play English league football conceded a goal within the first minute of his debut.
Premier League 2026-27 preview No 16: Manchester United
Football | The Guardianby Jamie Jackson·2d ago
Guardian writers’ predicted position: 5th (NB: this is not necessarily Jamie Jackson’s prediction but the average of our writers’ tips) Last season’s position: 3rd Prospects The information at the...
Wafcon 2026 review: Glory for Cameroon, Nigeria flop and Malawi cause a stir
Football | The Guardianby Firdose Moonda·2d ago
Cameroon became only the fourth country to lift the Women’s Africa Cup of Nations (Wafcon) title following Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa, and only the third to have both a men’s and...
Is Turkey home to savvy signings or a new retirement league? We’ll soon find out
Football | The Guardianby Leander Schaerlaeckens·2d ago
Mohamed Salah plays in Turkey now. So do Romelu Lukaku and Leandro Trossard and Leroy Sané and Nathan Aké. Mason Greenwood and N’Golo Kanté and Dusan Vlahovic, too.
March, May and more: footballers scoring in months that match their names | The Knowledge
Football | The Guardianby Guardian sport·2d ago
“Birmingham’s August Priske scored the only goal at Swansea in the League Cup on 8 August. Can you think of any other examples of players scoring in their namesake months?” wonders Paul Tiffen.
Barcelona steal Rodri away from Real Madrid and plan to make him new Busquets
Football | The Guardianby Sid Lowe·3d ago
By the time Flight PTN27B started its descent into El Prat a bit before 8pm on Monday evening, a small crowd had gathered by the terminal doors, waiting for it to land.
Chelsea’s boardroom rift: if Boehly goes who will Clearlake have left to blame? | Sam Cunningham
Football | The Guardianby Sam Cunningham·3d ago
Perhaps, in hindsight, it was always going to end this way. As some of the world’s wealthiest investors scrambled to find funds after Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine set a series of dominoes...
Patrick Vieira appointed as head coach of Senegal, the country of his birth
Football | The Guardianby Agence France-Presse·3d ago
Senegal have appointed France’s 1998 World Cup winner Patrick Vieira as head coach, the country’s football federation announced, succeeding Pape Thiaw, who was dismissed in the wake of their World...
Interviewing José Mourinho: ego, charisma, talent and his ‘rucksack of pain’
Football | The Guardianby Daniel Harris·3d ago
Even in the hyperreal world of football, there are few characters more compelling, more polarising, or more everything than José Mourinho, the best and worst of public him on full display in a new...
Sergio’s stunner lights up El Sardinero on Racing Santander’s emotional La Liga return | Sid Lowe
Football | The Guardianby Sid Lowe·4d ago
“The poor kid couldn’t believe what had happened; none of us could have if we’d just done what he had just done,” said Álvaro Mantilla, Racing Santander’s captain in the match they had longed for...
Brighton’s Emilie Joramo: ‘I feel like I’m now in the place I want to be’
Football | The Guardianby Suzanne Wrack·4d ago
Emilie Joramo has long had her sights set on the Women’s Super League, but she held herself back from pushing for a move over from Scandinavia – until now.
Cristiano Ronaldo says this year is ‘probably’ his last as a footballer
Football | The Guardianby AFP·5d ago
Cristiano Ronaldo believes this year is “probably” his last as a professional footballer, the 41-year-old Portugal captain said in an interview with Vogue magazine published on Sunday.
Farewell Cristian Romero, you actually always were ‘that type of player’ | Max Rushden
Football | The Guardianby Max Rushden·6d ago
“He’s not that kind of player” is perhaps the greatest of the co-commentators’ meaningless banalities.
Men’s transfer window summer 2026: all deals from Europe’s top five leagues
Football | The Guardianby Niall McVeigh, Will Magee, Billy Munday, Yara El-Shaboury and Garry Blight·8d ago
Full-back who is eligible to play for Spain and Argentina left Mallorca in July, but has quickly returned to La Liga on temporary basis
Which footballer has played for the most clubs in their career? | The Knowledge
Football | The Guardianby Guardian sport·9d ago
“Which footballer has played for the most clubs?” asks Paul Gage. Surprisingly, throughout the more than two decades of the Knowledge, this question has not been answered before.
Football Weekly’s summer mailbag: AI, how transfer gossip works and more – part two
Football | The Guardianby Presented by Max Rushden with Barry Glendenning , Seb Hutchinson, John Brewin and Jonathan Wilson. Produced by Rory Symon and Matt Bentley-Viney and our executive producers are Tayo Popoola and Joel G·18d ago
Rate, review, share on Apple Podcasts and join the conversation on email. On the podcast today: the panel discuss AI in football, their specialist subject in Mastermind, how transfer gossip works...
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