Associated Press MONACO (AP) — Good luck Manchester City, Tottenham, Juventus and Monaco — one of them will have to travel north of the Arctic Circle in mid-January to play a Champions League game. All four were drawn Thursday as away opponents for Norwegian champion Bodo/Glimt, whose 8,000-capacity Aspmyra stadium is located farther north than…
With the domestic leagues underway, the main event of Europe’s footballing calendar has finally been scheduled. On Thursday, all 36 participants in the UEFA Champions League learned who their eight opponents will be in the opening phase of the 2025-26 installment. Over the past decade, U.S. players have become increasingly relevant to the competition. Last…
Greek champion Olympiakos faces a demanding League Phase in this season’s UEFA Champions League, after Thursday’s draw in Monaco paired the Piraeus club with some of Europe’s most powerful sides. Their opponents include Real Madrid and Barcelona from Spain, Germany’s Bayer Leverkusen, Arsenal from England, Dutch clubs PSV Eindhoven and Ajax, Paphos of Cyprus, and…
Barcelona will have challenging matches. As the home team, they will play against PSG, the champion of the last round, Eintracht Frankfurt, Olympiacos, and Copenhagen. However, they will have to travel twice to England to face Newcastle and Chelsea and will also have to visit the Czech Republic (Slavia Praha) and Belgium (Club Brugge). On…
La Liga outfit Girona have this week announced a high-profile departure from the club’s first-team ranks. The Blanquivermells star to have moved on? Ladislav Krejčí. The name of versatile defender Krejčí has of course proven a prominent one in the media headlines across Spain and England alike for several weeks now. Krejčí for his part…
The 2025–26 Champions League has been bubbling away in the background since the start of July, when the first round of qualifying matches got underway. 53 teams have been involved in the process overall—42 of them entering via the Champions Path and 11 teams via the League Path—with seven places up for grabs in the…
Bloom is from Kent but says he grew up as a United fan because of his neighbours. “This Irish family we lived next door to, the McEvoys, were all big United fans so we watched all their games together,” Bloom told BBC Sport. “I miss it now I live in the United States. I still…
Italy’s Serie A and Spain’s La Liga have hit back at a European Union commissioner who branded their plans to stage domestic matches outside as a “betrayal” of the fans. Serie A is planning to stage a match between AC Milan and Como in Perth, Australia, next February, while La Liga hopes to move Villarreal’s…
UEFA’s executive committee is preparing to deliver a historic ruling, with the decision on Villarreal vs Barcelona in Miami set for September 11. UEFA to decide in September if La Liga can be played in Miami Real Madrid and European fan groups oppose the scheme Match would be first-ever La Liga game held abroad if…
La Liga outfit Girona have this week struck an agreement with French side Olympique Marseille, to bring in a member of the latter’s midfield ranks. The player in question? Azzedine Ounahi. Ounahi, for his part, is a 25-year-old midfielder, capable of lining out in a variety of roles in the middle of the park. Advertisement…