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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    The FT’s guide to the best books to read this summer
    Best summer books of 2024: Sport

    Simon Kuper selects his best mid-year reads

  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The scarcity value of top-class football

    Players are complaining about the number of fixtures. They have a point

    Hong Kong fans were left disappointed after Lionel Messi sat out a friendly in February
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Associazione Calcio Milan SpA
    Italian football prosecutor dismisses case over Elliott’s AC Milan sale

    Decision weakens a separate probe by a Milan prosecutor into hedge fund’s sale to RedBird

    AC Milan’s French forward Olivier Giroud
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    Men's Euro 2024
    Europe’s superpower is football not politics

    Favourites France and England and underdogs Ukraine and Georgia play against backdrop of domestic upheaval

  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    News in-depthUefa Men's European championship
    Scotland’s footballers return to big stage as Euro 2024 kicks off

    Tartan Army flocks to Munich as men’s side plays first major overseas tournament in quarter of a century

    Scotland manager Steve Clarke during a training session in Germany
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    The best books of the week
    Godwin by Joseph O’Neill — mining football talent

    A quest to find a brilliant and elusive African soccer player forms the backdrop to O’Neill’s globetrotting novel

    Illustration of a person in a person with pages flying in the air
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    Fifa
    Footballers launch legal action over workload and Club World Cup

    Global players’ union faces off with governing body over ‘overloaded and unworkable’ calendar

    Jude Bellingham of England at a training session
  • Thursday, 13 June, 2024
    European prime property
    Hot property: five homes for sale in Germany

    As the country prepares for the European Football Championship, here are some of the most striking homes on the market in host cities

    An inside-outside view of the side of an angular modern house
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    Northern Ireland
    N Ireland’s chance of Euro 28 football boost being ‘squandered’ by lack of funding

    Refurbishment of Belfast’s derelict Casement Park stadium has stalled as UK government financing has failed to materialise

    Casement Park
  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Premier League
    Aston Villa billionaire owner calls for Premier League spending rules reform

    Nassef Sawiris lambasts opaque penalties faced by clubs for breaches and says system cements status quo

    Aston Villa striker Ollie Watkins playing against Premier League rivals Brentford
  • Monday, 10 June, 2024
    News in-depth
    French football league races to find broadcaster before season kicks off

    Partnership with private equity group CVC has not yet borne fruit, leaving clubs facing cash crunch

    Kylian Mbappé  and Clermont Foot
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Premier League
    Man City legal challenge exposes Premier League splits on spending rules

    Top-tier football clubs divided on what to do about financial regulations they say are not working

    Man City players Erling Braut Haaland and Ederson celebrate becoming Premier League champions last month
  • Thursday, 6 June, 2024
    Everton Football Club Co Ltd
    Everton’s lenders battle to take control of Premier League club

    Owner Farhad Moshiri is entertaining offers from rival creditors after sale to 777 Partners collapsed

    Everton’s Dominic Calvert-Lewin, right, in action against Manchester United earlier this year
  • Monday, 3 June, 2024
    Kylian Mbappé
    Kylian Mbappé seals move to European champions Real Madrid

    World’s top player joins club football’s most successful side

    Kylian Mbappé celebrates after scoring a goal
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Everton Football Club Co Ltd
    777 deal to buy Everton Football Club collapses

    British-Iranian owner Farhad Moshiri says the sale and purchase agreement has ‘expired’

  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Josh Noble
    Why this year’s Champions League final offers a blast from the past

    Two fan-controlled teams, Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund, are vying for the game’s top accolade

    Preparations are under way at the entrance areas outside Wembley Stadium on May 29, 2024, the venue for the UEFA Champions League final football match between Borussia Dortmund and Real Madrid
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    Personal Finance
    Football fans at high risk of ticket scams

    Fraud warning ahead of Euros tournament

    Real Madrid’s Jude Bellingham, who is expected to play in this weekend’s Champions League final at Wembley
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    Borussia Dortmund
    Rheinmetall to sponsor Borussia Dortmund in sign of shifting German attitudes to defence

    Europe’s largest ammunition maker agrees deal with Bundesliga club

    Dortmund players celebrate
  • Sunday, 26 May, 2024
    Bayer Leverkusen success hailed as chance to boost Bundesliga’s global appeal

    German league plans to step up marketing after domestic double for Bayer-owned football club

    Bayer Leverkusen’s Florian Wirtz lifts the trophy as his teammates cheer
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    InterviewWomen in business
    Women’s football boss Michele Kang: ‘I want the next generation to compete on an equal playing field’

    Owner of teams including Olympique Lyon Féminin wants to bring better resources to the female game

    An Asian woman in a dark suit stands in the terrace of a football stadium
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    How a bet on Everton engulfed a football investor and its financial backers

    The fallout from 777 Partners’ buying spree has spread from the Premier League to insurance policyholders

  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    Crystal Palace FC Ltd
    US tech entrepreneur puts Crystal Palace stake up for sale

    John Textor seeks buyer for his 40% holding in Premier League club

    Crystal Palace’s English midfielder Adam Wharton vies with Manchester United’s English striker Ethan Wheatley during the English Premier League football match between Crystal Palace and Manchester United at Selhurst Park
  • Friday, 24 May, 2024
    News in-depthTurkey
    Turkish football’s season from hell points to deeper societal malaise

    Country’s dominant sport joins the ranks of those institutions in which the public has lost faith

    Security officers take action as a violence breaks out during a match between Fenerbahçe and Trabzonspor in March
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
    LexFC Internazionale Milano SpA
    Oaktree’s Inter Milan takeover shows risks of private debt in sport Premium content

    With franchise values skyrocketing, leagues are becoming more lax on capital structure restrictions

    Inter Milan’s Hakan Calhanoglu and Marko Arnautovic celebrate with the trophy after winning the Serie A on May 19
  • Wednesday, 22 May, 2024
    ReviewTelevision
    99 — Manchester United’s historic treble season revisited

    Three-part Amazon series transports fans back to the team’s glory days

    A crowd of cheering football fans surrounds a red double-decker bus on a street, with some of them climbing on lamp posts. A group of men in suits stand on the bus’s top deck holding large trophies.
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