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Kazi Salahuddin has secured another term as president of the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF), extending his stewardship of the region's football governing body since 2009. The Bangladeshi football legend sailed through unopposed at...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino said on Friday that world soccer's ​governing body had scrapped plans to sell a stake in the World Cup to private investors after widespread backlash. FIFA's plan ‌was to raise up to $4.2 billion by sel...

Former AC Milan and Italy defender Franco Baresi, one of the most recognisable players of the golden era of Italian football in the 1980s and 1990s, has died at the age of 66, his former club said ​on Friday. "The entire history of AC Mila...

FIFA said on Friday it would move forward with its consultation process to bring private investment ​into the World Cup and its other tournaments in ‌defiance of a fierce UEFA-led backlash against the proposal. The world soccer govern...

UEFA's member associations have unanimously voted to boycott the World Cup and other FIFA competitions in protest at FIFA's plan to sell stakes to external investors in a subsidiary that will run the global governing body's tournaments, Eur...

The opening ceremony of the Prime Minister's Gold Cup National Football Tournament has been postponed by a month and will now be held in September. Education Minister ANM Ehsanul Hoque Milon told a press conference in Chattogram on Thursda...

The decision by the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) to change the ODI captain for the national men’s team has drawn many questions. The main one being – “Is it right to change the captaincy after a failure in a single serie...

Argentina's contentious exit from the World Cup could end up having long-term consequences, as FIFA on Monday announced assault charges against two Albiceleste players and an assistant coach. Midfielder Leandro Paredes faces three assault...