BRUSSELS (AP) — The leaders of UEFA and the group representing Europe’s top clubs have dismissed the threat of privately run new competitions, showing unity against a FIFA-led project.

UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin and European Club Association chairman Andrea Agnelli teamed up for a ...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino will request the term “corruption” is restored to the ethics code covering world soccer after criticism over its symbolic removal.

The Associated Press revealed in August that the FIFA ...

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Aleksander Ceferin is set to be re-elected unopposed as UEFA president.

The Slovenian was elected in September 2016 to complete the four-year term of Michel Platini, who was banned by world soccer’s ruling body FIFA for financial misconduct.

European soccer’s ...

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA secretary general Fatma Samoura will meet women campaigning to be allowed into Saturday’s Asian Champions League final in Iran where they are legally barred from stadiums.

Samoura says she is meeting Thursday in Zurich with Open Stadiums activists who have a 200,000-name ...

ZURICH (AP) — Soccer’s biggest names would be banned from the World Cup if they played in a breakaway European Super League, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday.

Infantino, speaking to a small group of reporters at FIFA headquarters, said the governing body would punish players ...

ZURICH (AP) — The 2022 World Cup must be played in just 28 days even if it is expanded to 48 teams, FIFA President Gianni Infantino said Wednesday, acknowledging that the tight schedule will make it even harder to push through his preferred vision of a bigger tournament.

FIFA will decide ...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — Adding 16 teams to the 2022 World Cup is about far more than sports. The head of world soccer thinks the proposal can help solve the bitter diplomatic fight between host Qatar and a Saudi Arabian-led coalition trying to isolate the tiny nation.

FIFA President Gianni ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — A change in election rules approved Wednesday gave FIFA vice president Sheikh Salman bin Khalifa a better chance of retaining his leadership of Asian soccer.

The Bahraini royal faces a challenge from Saudi Arabia, expected to be its former soccer federation ...

LONDON (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino is braced for a release of private information gained by hackers after world soccer’s governing body said its computer network was subject to another cyberattack.

The disclosure comes in the same month the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI ...

ZURICH (AP) — Former FIFA Council member Kwesi Nyantakyi was banned from soccer for life on Tuesday after being filmed taking bribes by an undercover television program in Ghana.

FIFA said its ethics committee judges found Nyantakyi guilty of bribery, corruption and conflict of ...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino says he is pushing for support of new competitions despite Europe’s opposition because it is his duty to protect the “relevance of football.”

On the eve of the soccer governing body’s council meeting, Infantino revealed other investors ...

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) — Facing scrutiny over links to Saudi Arabia, FIFA says new competitions that will bring in $25 billion will not be funded directly by any nation, according to documents seen by The Associated Press.

FIFA Council members received the funding commitment in briefing notes ...

FIFA President Gianni Infantino is doubling down on his Club World Cup plans with a proposal for an expanded annual tournament despite European soccer’s resistance to any competition that challenges the supremacy of the Champions ...

FRISCO, Texas (AP) — With the Women’s World Cup less than eight months away, U.S. national team midfielder Megan Rapinoe is dismayed by what she sees as ongoing issues of inequality in soccer.

From uncertainty about the use of video review and the amount of prize money, to scheduling other ...

ZURICH (AP) — Soccer great Marco van Basten is leaving FIFA after two years as technical director.

The former Netherlands forward is leaving amicably to be closer to his family in Amsterdam, FIFA said Friday.

Van Basten helped oversee the introduction of video review for referees at ...

PARIS (AP) — Convinced he was the victim of a plot, former UEFA president Michel Platini has filed a lawsuit in France in a bid to prove that former FIFA officials conspired to get him banned from soccer.

Platini’s communications team told The Associated Press on Friday that the former ...

FIFA’s new global strategy to grow the women’s game is prompting both praise and skepticism.

Soccer’s governing body has been addressing the women’s side of the sport in the past several years, partly in response to calls for more equity. The result is a five-pronged proposal announced ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Former FIFA executive committee member Worawi Makudi is at the Court of Arbitration for Sport challenging his ban for forgery ahead of a Thailand soccer federation election.

Makudi said outside the court on Thursday he was “very confident. I didn’t do anything ...

FIFA is rolling out a global strategy to grow the women’s game in advance of next year’s World Cup in France.

Soccer’s governing body has been ramping up its attention to the women’s side of the sport for the past several years, partly in response to calls for more equity.

The result ...

GENEVA (AP) — Former FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali is taking his charity project worldwide to build on its work of bringing soccer to Syrian refugees in Jordan.

The prince detailed plans Tuesday for the Association Football Development Program Global to fund projects, donate ...

Cristiano Ronaldo’s image is vanishing from the website of a key sponsor. The stock price for his Juventus team dropped 10 percent on Friday.

A week after a Nevada woman filed a civil lawsuit accusing Ronaldo of rape in 2009, attempts by the five-time world player of the year and his ...

MOSCOW (AP) — In Russia, sports and the government are closely intertwined.

Top athletes hold military ranks, Olympic medals are a matter of national pride, and champions receive luxury cars in Kremlin ceremonies.

So when Russia was accused of doping its way to the top, the Russian ...

After denying corruption and rape allegations, the chief organizer of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa is one of five candidates set to stand in an election Sunday for a place on the FIFA Council.

Danny Jordaan will be trying to reach soccer’s top panel for the third time. His elevation ...

NYON, Switzerland (AP) — Germany won the right to host soccer’s 2024 European Championship on Thursday, beating Turkey following a politically charged campaign.

Germany, which successfully hosted the 2006 World Cup, was the long-time favorite and won the UEFA executive committee vote 12-4. ...

LONDON (AP) — Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi were far from the auditorium by the River Thames when Luka Modric broke their decade-long grip on FIFA’s award for the world’s best player.

Football’s biggest individual accolade was handed to the 33-year-old playmaker on Monday night in ...

GENEVA (AP) — FIFA spent $11.7 million in less than three years on private jets, including luxury sight-seeing trips for a top official, a newly published legal document shows.

Jerome Valcke, then the FIFA secretary general, was urged in a 2013 internal memo to find “more cost efficient ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — When Greek league rivals AEK Athens and PAOK Thessaloniki met last season, a disallowed goal late in the match — which was, finally, allowed — threw the sport into chaos.

PAOK’s owner stormed onto the field in protest with a gun strapped to his belt, the league was ...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — In a concession to women’s soccer, FIFA will start funding business-class flights for some of the Women’s World Cup teams traveling to France for next year’s tournament.

Total prize money will also “significantly increase” from the $15 million shared among 24 ...

ZURICH (AP) — FIFA President Gianni Infantino is still not convinced it’s a good idea to play Spanish league games in the United States.

Infantino says on Tuesday he would “prefer to see a great MLS game in the U.S. rather than La Liga being in the U.S.”

His statement repeated ...