LONDON — Chelsea and Barcelona traded first-half goals in a 1-1 draw Thursday as both teams stayed unbeaten in the Women’s Champions League. Chelsea thought it had a go-ahead goal in the 83rd minute on substitute Catarina Macario’s header, but she was ruled offside and Sonia Bompastor’s team ended the night in sixth place with…
PARIS (AP) — Paris Saint-Germain needed stoppage-time winners in the last two league games to narrowly stay atop Ligue 1. The defending champion is two points ahead of Marseille and third-placed Lens heading into the 13th round, where PSG hosts Le Havre on Saturday. There could be a shakeup with Marseille and Lens both facing…
Three months in and it has already been a season of highs and lows for Liverpool. A run of five straight wins to start the team’s Premier League title defense. Then a streak of four consecutive losses. Before the international break, an impressive 1-0 victory over Real Madrid in the Champions League was celebrated as…
Record eight-time champion OL Lyonnes rallied from three goals down at halftime to salvage a 3-3 draw at Juventus in the Women’s Champions League on Wednesday. Veteran defender Wendie Renard, who has scored more than 150 goals for Lyon, equalized with a well-taken penalty in the 90th minute following a handball by Juve captain Cecilia…
Could a club from Africa be playing in La Liga next season? AD Ceuta — from the autonomous Spanish city of the same name, which is surrounded on the landward side by Morocco and located on the southern shore of the Mediterranean Sea — are the only club located on the African continent who play…
Watching live sport on TV has arguably never been more accessible than it is today. The Premier League is the most-watched sports league in the world and is broadcast in more than 180 countries globally. Whether you are in the United Kingdom, the United States or Uzbekistan, and just about anywhere else you can think…
“Death has come for me three times. I have evaded it, but it will find me, as it does everyone.” Levante head coach Julian Calero is in a philosophical mood at the club’s training ground in the Spanish city of Valencia. There is good reason for that. The 55-year-old is surely a football manager without…
If the good people of Hampshire, England’s sixth most populous county of 1.8 million, want the answer to a burning question about pride, they’ll find it above the urinals at Carshalton AFC in what was formerly the neighbouring county of Surrey. The citizens of Southampton or Portsmouth may disagree, but there, on a Carshalton cistern,…
Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabeu stadium will host its first NFL game on Sunday, with the Miami Dolphins and the Washington Commanders to meet in the Spanish capital. It is the latest in the NFL’s international series of overseas fixtures, designed to increase the sport’s appeal abroad. NFL owners voted in December 2024 to expand the…
The Athletic FC ⚽ is The Athletic’s daily football (or soccer, if you prefer) newsletter. Sign up to receive it directly to your inbox. Hello! Today we have a big change coming to Major League Soccer and an international break has finally dished up some drama. On the way: Big MLS move explained: Why club…