#soccer-aid-2026

#soccer-aid-2026

Working-class footballers lost hundreds of millions to financial mis-selling, but the V11 group is still being pursued for tax on money they never had.

I just think they've priced people out. They've not restricted it, so anyone can get a wheelchair ticket, an accessible ticket. You don't have to prove you need one, which is what you normally do.

Eight of the ten clubs in the top half of the Premier League table are owned by Americans. In the Championship, four of the eight clubs battling for promotion are U.S.-owned, including the Ryan Reynolds-Rob McElhenney Wrexham project.

From 11:30 until 13:30 GMT, and post-match, supporters can head to pop-up stalls outside East Stand, by the E32 turnstiles, to speak with safeguarding staff from both clubs, GMP, British Transport Police, Transport for Greater Manchester and Her Game Too, to find out more about recognising the signs of violence and what to do if you witness it.

Wales is looking for a second-straight World Cup berth after a magical run in 2022 ended a 64-year drought. This is as prosperous a time for Welsh soccer as any, even without its greatest export, Gareth Bale. The Dragons reached the semifinals of the European Championships in 2016 and then advanced to the round of 16 in 2020.

The soccer competition, which will feature 12 women's teams and eight men's teams for the first time, has the longest competition window of any sport in Olympic history because the International Olympic Committee Executive Board wanted to give each team two extra rest days throughout the tournament.

Wembley Stadium will not host the 2026 edition of the Community Shield, the FA have announced. The traditional curtain-raiser pits the reigning league champions against the FA Cup winners and typically takes place on the weekend before the Premier League gets under way.

Soccer Aid, the world's biggest charity football match, has been held annually since 2018 and continues to raise millions for UNICEF. The match will see England, managed by Robbie Williams, face the World XI team, managed by Usain Bolt. Last year, the latter secured a 5-4 win.

It's a bit of a no-brainer. We're women, we've all got different shapes and sizes. As a 20-year-old, wearing a dress would have been fine for me, but if you put me on court now I couldn't think of anything worse than wearing a netball dress. - Coach Tamsin Greenway on Mavericks' kit innovation

Calls are growing for European countries to boycott the 2026 FIFA World Cup later this year in opposition to President Donald Trump, as many of the games are set to take place in the United States. The World Cup will be held in multiple locations across three countries in North America (Mexico, Canada, and the U.S.), with most games happening in the U.S. Many fans are concerned about traveling to the U.S., noting not only the high ticket and travel costs, but also difficulties getting travel visas due to Trump's immigration policies and the invasive surveillance measures his administration is implementing against people entering the country.

City is finally finding the success that the individual talent on its roster has long suggested it could. Manager Andrée Jeglertz arrived in the summer and has figured out how to make a cohesive group out of the team's array of super talents, which includes the likes of Bunny Shaw, Vivianne Miedema, Yui Hasegawa, Kerstin Casparij, and Kerolin. City sits atop the WSL table a little over halfway through the season,

The idea of it just excites me so much. I want the place to be pumping. I want it to be an event when people come here. I want do the unthinkable and get to the Premier League. Everyone here is hard-working and I want to be the man who affects things on the pitch as well as off the pitch.

The arrival of this tournament marks Fifa's first attempt to dip a toe into women's club football. The quadrennial Women's Club World Cup, first mooted by Gianni Infantino in 2019, was projected to start this year but was postponed until January 2028. To fill the gap, they brought forward the introduction of this secondary competition that will act as an annual touch point for clubs across the world according to Fifa's director of elite women's football, Sarah Booth.

This summer's soccer World Cup tournament will provide a rare opportunity for major advertisers looking to engage sports audiences over a month-long festival of footwork, free kicks and the occasional foul - all taking place in the U.S and Mexico. But Major League Soccer (MLS) has a bigger ambition: to convert U.S. viewers entertaining a passing interest in the World Cup into long-term soccer fans of Inter Miami, New York City FC or the Seattle Sounders.