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  • Darwin Núñez (left) and Liverpool teammates look dejected after their elimination from the Champions League

    Jonathan Liew
    Time running out for Liverpool to make themselves serial winners

    The Premier League has almost been won but contracts are running out and key players ageing, necessitating a summer of change at Anfield
    • Arsenal's Declan Rice celebrates scoring their second goal against PSV

      Champions League
      Sterling makes mark against PSV as Arsenal stroll into quarter-finals

    • Championship roundup
      Leeds reclaim top spot; Plymouth stun Portsmouth

    • Women's Super League
      WSL’s £65m TV contract to be renegotiated if relegation is suspended

    • David Hytner
      Time for the real Spurs to stand up … but what is that?

    • Hillsborough disaster
      Dozens of police misconduct claims upheld, families told

    • Crystal Palace
      Club open talks with Glasner amid Leipzig interest

    • Manchester United
      ‘Underperforming’: Amorim agrees with Ratcliffe

    • The Knowledge
      When was the phrase ‘smash-and-grab’ first used?

News and features

  • Youri Tielemans (left) and Marcus Rashford (right) congratulate Marco Asensio on his second goal in the 3-0 win over Club Brugge

    Jonathan Wilson
    Aston Villa's shot at greatness after setting up PSG showdown

    Unai Emery’s side have taken a step closer to being immortalised in the Champions League
  • Bobby Tabrizi outside his United Cafe

    Manchester United
    Old Trafford abuzz as neighbours welcome new stadium plans

  • Gareth Taylor gets a message across to Manchester City’s players on the final day of last season

    Moving the Goalposts
    Will Taylor’s City sacking prove a masterstroke?

  • Infantino and Trump take 2026 World Cup for themselves

    Leander Schaerlaeckens

  • Football Daily
    PSG survive ride to show they are bottlers no more

  • Liverpool
    Van Dijk has ‘no idea’ if he be at Reds next season

  • Premier League
    Forest have a Champions League place within their grasp

  • Vitinha embodies new PSG as Luis Enrique shifts culture

    Jonathan Liew

  • Manchester United
    New stadium a ‘risk’ to team, admits CEO

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In depth

  • David Squires on … Mr Infantino goes to Washington

    David Squires on …
    Mr Infantino’s trip to Washington and meeting with Trump

    Our cartoonist on two larger than life presidents coming together
  • An image of Manchester United’s proposed new 100,000-seater stadium.

    Ratcliffe’s straight-talking act dissolves into double-speak

    Barney Ronay
    On Manchester United’s job losses, financial state and their new stadium, it takes hawk-like focus to work out what the co-owner is actually saying
    • Wojciech Szczesny eyes the ball during a warm-up session

      Szczesny lends higher meaning to Barça's title charge

      Jonathan Liew
    • Ruben Amorim on the sidelines against Arsenal at Old Trafford

      Amorim’s honesty is glorious but he must solve malaise

      David Hytner
    • Maya Le Tissier, Khadija Shaw, Daphne van Domselaar.

      Women's FA Cup
      Arsenal's barren spell goes on as Chelsea keep up quad dreams

    • Weston McKennie watches on as he and his Juventus teammates endure a 4-0 defeat

      Serie A
      Motta left gasping for air at Juventus after painful reunion

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World football

  • Ronaldo starts Camino de Santiago after Valladolid's promotion<br>epa09996893 President of Real Valladolid FC, Ronaldo Nazario, starts the Camino de Santiago after the promotion of his team to the First Division of LaLiga, in Valladolid, Spain, 05 June 2022. Ronaldo had previously sworn to undertake the Camino de Santiago on an electric bike if his team were promoted to the First Division. He is expected to arrive at the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela on 08 June. EPA/R. Garcia

    La Liga
    Ronaldo and Valladolid: with magic gone, all that’s left is crisis

    After his takeover in 2018, the early enthusiasm has long gone, and so mostly has he. Now he wants to get on his bike
  • Bochum players celebrate after their famous win over Bayern in Munich

    Bundesliga
    Farcical failures for big boys reveal European pressures

  • United States midfielder Tyler Adams (4) celebrates his goal with forward Christian Pulisic during last year’s Concacaf Nations League finals.

    USMNT
    Adams, Reyna return to squad for Concacaf Nations League

  • Eredivisie
    USMNT defender Sergiño Dest makes return from ACL injury with PSV

  • Canada
    Why a female coach left men’s game for upstart women's league

  • NWSL
    Investigation opened into Bay FC over ‘toxic’ work environment reports

  • Bundesliga
    Nübel lives out a nightmare in latest Bayern audition

  • MLS
    Mexico's homophobic chant turns from bad joke to a problem

    Jon Arnold

  • Champions League
    Bayern put Leverkusen in their place with Kane double

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Video

  • While Liverpool boss Arne Slot called the team's exit from the Champions League a shock, he took solace in losing to an excellent Paris Saint‑Germain team in a wildly entertaining two-legged tie that needed a penalty shootout to settle it
    1:30

    Champions League
    Slot takes pride in Liverpool's display after exit to PSG

  • Sam Merson, son of the former footballer Paul Merson, scored an 'outrageous' goal for Hanworth Villa against Farnham Town
    0:32

    Non-league football
    'What a moment': Merson’s son scores 'outrageous' goal

  • Jeering fans from Internacional de Limeira provoked Neymar to score the first olimpico of his career, the Brazil international said on Sunday, after guiding Santos to a 3-0 win in the Paulista Championship.
    0:27

    Brazil
    Neymar responds to jeering fans by scoring directly from corner

  • Watford's Annie Rossiter was sent off after she, about to take a corner, removed the flag due to a puddle and was told by the referee to return it
    1:03

    Water torture
    Player sent off after removing corner flag due to puddle on pitch

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Opinion

  • Tottenham and Manchester City in action in the WSL on Sunday

    With relegation vote, do WSL clubs have too much power?

    Suzanne Wrack
  • Arsenal's Kai Havertz feels his hamstring and grimaes while lying on the pitch at Molineux in January

    Stretched to the limit
    Why hamstring injuries are curse of Premier League

    Academics and medics are working to understand why hamstring injuries are keeping players sidelined for longer
  • composite image with three men looking disappointed and green lines behind them

    No sign things are going to get better after United's new low

    Jonathan Wilson
    Exiting the FA Cup on penalties at home to Fulham is a new low in a season full of them

    Regulars

    • Women's FA Cup - Quarter Final - Arsenal v Liverpool<br>Soccer Football - Women's FA Cup - Quarter Final - Arsenal v Liverpool - Meadow Park, Borehamwood, Britain - March 9, 2025 Liverpool's Rachael Laws in action as she makes a save Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Boyers

      Women's Football Weekly
      FA Cup shock and City’s managerial shake-up

    • Manchester United's proposed new stadium

      Football Daily
      United and the mental gymnastics needed for a bigger circus

      • Football Weekly
        Liverpool go 15 points clear as United hold Arsenal

      • The Knowledge
        It's all kicking off! Players shown red cards before games

      • Moving the Goalposts
        How Cata Coll became present and future of Barça and Spain

      • Cartoon
        David Squires on … the FA Cup's dramatic revival

      • Women's Football Weekly
        WSL shake-up, managerial changes and goals galore

      • FA Cup
        Talking points from the fifth-round matches

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    Catch up

    • Ferenc Puskás and South Melbourne Hellas celebrate after winning a National Soccer League title

      Ange and the Boss
      Australian title and ties that bind Postecoglou and Puskás

    • Fans call for Todd Boehly to leave the club with a sign that reads ‘Wanted for crimes against Chelsea: Clearlake & BlueCo’ before the Premier League game against Southampton

      Chelsea fans grapple with art of omission by Boehly’s regime

      Jonathan Liew
    • Raheem Sterling in Arsenal training

      Sterling in startling decline after hitting the fateful 500 mark

      Jonathan Wilson
    • Peter Schmeichel, pictured this week

      Big interview
      Peter Schmeichel: ‘I felt I knew what was going to happen next’

    The big picture

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    The top 100

    • Vinicius Júnior, Rodri and Erling Haaland

      Men's edition
      Revealed: the best male players in the world for 2024

    • Manchester City v Tottenham Hotspur - Premier League - Etihad Stadium<br>Manchester City's Rodri with his Ballon d'Or trophy ahead of the Premier League match at the Etihad Stadium, Manchester. Picture date: Saturday November 23, 2024. PA Photo. See PA story SOCCER Man City. Photo credit should read: Carl Recine/POOL/PA Wire. RESTRICTIONS: EDITORIAL USE ONLY No use with unauthorised audio, video, data, fixture lists, club/league logos or "live" services. Online in-match use limited to 120 images, no video emulation. No use in betting, games or single club/league/player publications.

      Rodri at No 1
      Midfielder on top of the world after year of glory and pain

    • trail day 4 women's top 100 footballers 2024

      Women's edition
      Revealed: the best female players in the world for 2024

    • Aitana Bonmatí

      Bonmatí at No 1
      Spaniard on top of the world again but England close gap

    Next generation

    • Franco Mastantuono (River Plate), Estêvão (Palmeiras) and Konstantinos Karetsas (Genk)

      2024 edition
      Revealed: 60 of the best young talents in world football

    • Stephen Mfuni (Manchester City), Shumaira Mheuka (Chelsea) and Jack Porter (Arsenal)

      2024 edition
      Twenty of the best talents at Premier League clubs

    • Next Generation 2023: 60 of the best young talents in world football image

      Class of 2023
      Big years for Zaïre-Emery and Endrick. But how about the rest?

    • Gianluca Busio and Gio Reyna

      Class of 2019
      Busio, Reyna and co: how have they got on since?

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