Football

Benitez's Chelsea stint ends with 5-3 loss to City
Far away from the jeering supporters at London's Stamford Bridge, Rafa Benitez completed his brief but productive stint at Chelsea with a 5-3 loss to ...
Dortmund rues missing golden opportunity to win CL
Borussia Dortmund's pain in losing the Champions League final 2-1 to bitter rival Bayern Munich is acerbated by the knowledge it may never have a ...
Heynckes leaves Guardiola with tough act to follow
Follow that, Pep. Jupp Heynckes is leaving Bayern Munich having set the bar for Pep Guardiola as high as the Wembley Stadium arch. In England's ...
Bayern beats Dortmund 2-1 in CL final
With minutes left to play and the biggest game in club football once again in his hands, Arjen Robben made sure he didn't miss this time. Robben found ...
Bayern, Dortmund fans descend on Wembley for final
Thousands of German football fans gathered at Wembley Stadium on Saturday and packed into central London ahead of the Champions League final. In the ...
Bayern, Dortmund use expected lineups for CL final
Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are both fielding their expected lineups for the all-German Champions League final at Wembley, with neither coach ...
No decision yet as Neymar practices with Santos
Neymar trained with his Santos teammates on Saturday in what was likely his last practice session at the Brazilian club before making his ...
Reports: 27 indicted in Bari match-fixing inquiry
Twenty-seven people, all but three of them footballers, were indicted Saturday on charges of committing sports fraud for fixing four matches involving ...
Lazio players threatened before Italian Cup final
Lazio says its players have received threatening phone calls from people demanding that they lose Sunday's Italian Cup final to Roma.
Beckham not in PSG squad for last game vs. Lorient
David Beckham's football career is now officially over. The veteran midfielder was not included in Paris Saint-Germain's squad to play Lorient in ...
Bayern calm, Dortmund excited ahead of CL final
Bayern Munich is trying to playing things down as the title favorite, while outsider Borussia Dortmund is eager to play up its chances. Even before ...
Inter fires Stramaccioni, hires Mazzarri
Inter Milan fired coach Andrea Stramaccioni on Friday and hired Walter Mazzarri as his replacement, five days after concluding the Serie A season with ...
New UEFA nation Gibraltar eyes Euro football debut
Gibraltar became the smallest European football nation on Friday after the British colony's lengthy push to join UEFA was completed by gaining full ...
2 coaches leave Manchester United
Manchester United coaches Mike Phelan and Eric Steele are leaving the team as new manager David Moyes looks to install his own staff. Moyes, who the ...
AP Source: FIFA task force seeks 5-game racism ban
FIFA's new anti-racism task force will ask football's governing body next week to approve a mandatory five-match minimum ban for any player found ...
Platini wants a European sports police force
UEFA President Michel Platini has stepped up his call for a European sports police force to tackle betting, corruption, match-fixing, doping and ...
Eq. Guinea appeals being stripped of World Cup win
FIFA says Equatorial Guinea will appeal being stripped of a World Cup qualifying win against Cape Verde for fielding an ineligible player. Cape Verde ...
Porto sells Rodriguez, Moutinho to Monaco for $90m
FC Porto says it has struck a deal worth a combined 70 million euros ($90 million) with Monaco for midfield duo James Rodriguez and Joao Moutinho.
7 Rapid Vienna fans to stand trial in Greece
A panel of judges in Greece has ordered seven fans of Austria's Rapid Vienna to stand trial over violence that broke out last year during a Europe ...
4 footballers in England cleared of sexual assault
Four footballers in England, including the son of Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers, have been cleared of sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman in ...
Fan violence worries overshadow Italian Cup final
Worries of fan violence are high ahead of Sunday's Italian Cup final and Rome derby between Roma and Lazio. After audiences with both Pope Francis and ...
Hoffenheim beats Kaiserslautern 3-1 in playoff
Roberto Firmino scored two goals and set up another as Hoffenheim beat Kaiserslautern 3-1 in the first leg of the Bundesliga playoff on Thursday.
United refinances high-interest debt, cuts costs
Manchester United announced Thursday that more than $290 million of its high-interest debt has been refinanced, cutting the club's interest costs by ...
Bayern, Dortmund take rivalry to new level
Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund will take their increasingly acrimonious rivalry to a new level Saturday in the first all-German Champions League ...