Brazil will host the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup after outbidding a joint European bid from Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, world football's governing body announced at the 74th FIFA Congress in Bangkok, Thailand.

The grand finale of the 2024 season of the FIBA 3x3 World Tour will take place in Hong Kong for the first time in history on 23-24 November 2024, featuring the world's best men's 3x3 teams.

In the last few hours, the rubbish collectors of Paris have gone on strike, using the power that comes with being just 70 days away from the third modern Olympic Games to be held on French soil.

The Silverstone F1 circuit, where the Brazilian legend won the most Grand Prix races of his illustrious career, will pay tribute to the driver who died in 1994 with a display of his cars over the weekend of 23-25 August.

World bronze medallist Andreas Pantelides is returning to competition with a single goal in mind: to win gold at the 2024 GAMMA European Championship, which takes place this week in Slovakia.

The fencer Ysaora Thibus, suspended after a positive anti-doping test, will face perhaps the most important battle of her career to keep dreaming of Paris 2024, defending herself before the Disciplinary Tribunal of the International Fencing Federation.

Al Hilal clinched the Saudi Arabian Roshn League title with a 4-1 win over Al Hazem on Saturday, and Neymar, who missed the game through injury, praised his teammates for their efforts.

Bayer Leverkusen remain unbeaten in all competitions in the 2023/24 season, reaching the European record of 50 matches without defeat after a 5-0 win away to Bochum in the Bundesliga, where they have already been crowned champions.

FIFA on Friday vehemently denied "imposing" its 2025 Club World Cup match schedule amid threats of legal action from leagues and unions.

Sports analysis website Sportico has published a list of what it claims are the 50 most valuable football clubs in economic terms. Manchester United tops the list, despite their poor performances in the Champions League and Premier League. Real Madrid and Barcelona are close behind.

Guinea's U-23 football team booked their place at the Olympic tournament in Paris with a play-off victory over Indonesia. Ilaix Moriba scored the only goal of the match in the French town of Clairefontaine.

The association representing professional footballers, the global players' union FIFPRO, has warned FIFA about the extensive and damaging nature of the calendar adopted by Infantino and his cohorts at world football's governing body.

The rivalry between Argentina's Crespo and Australia's Kewell in the Champions League will be revived in the two-legged final of Asian football, which begins in Japan this Saturday.

The former president of the Spanish Football Federation (RFEF), Luis Rubiales, will stand trial for kissing Jenni Hermoso without her consent, according to the Spanish player herself, after winning the Women's World Cup last year.