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Exclusive: Prize money at the upcoming tournament in Australia will not increase from what was offered by the AFC at the last edition four years ago

Exclusive: Prize money at the upcoming tournament in Australia will not increase from what was offered by the AFC at the last edition four years ago

Women's football journalist SAMANTHA LEWIS casts her eye over the Matildas squad as the countdown to selection time heats up.

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A country where safety is under threat from federal violence on the streets is not fit to stage soccer’s showpiece event Removing the United States as co-host of the 2026 World Cup would hurt for pretty much everyone. Fans would miss out on seeing the sport’s pinnacle in their home towns (or somewhere nearby). Cities and businesses small and large would lose the financial benefits they had banked on. It would be a logistical and political nightmare on an international scale, the likes of which have never been seen before in sports. It would be eminently sad. And it would be entirely justified. It brings me no pleasure to say this. The United States has been eager to host a men’s World Cup for more than a decade and a half. The desire survived and even grew after 2010’s failure to out-bid Russia and Qatar (in public and behind closed doors) for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups. With hosting rights for 2026 later secured alongside Canada and Mexico, the US soccer scene prepared to show off that the sport is now part of the nation’s fabric, 32 years after hosting the tournament for the first time in 1994. Soccer’s growing popularity in America has helped inspire other US sports to try new formats, encouraged us to engage more fully with the world in a sporting context, and has been at the center of conversations about our society and culture. The 2026 World Cup was seen as the best chance for the world to fully experience not just how much the US has improved at soccer, but how much soccer has improved the US. Continue reading...

On the whims of Fifa’s Peace Prize winner, a life usually so focused on sports has found anything but peace

A German soccer federation executive committee member says it’s time to consider a World Cup boycott because of the actions of U.S. President Donald Trump.

After taking time away from football to discover herself, the Matilda is now a Rainbow Ambassador for Sydney WorldPride and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sport.

Exclusive: Girl had to agree to remove Club Deportivo Palestino shirt before being let into Allianz Stadium on Sunday night

FIFA today announced that it has selected sports AI and data pioneer Stats Perform as its first-ever official betting data and streaming rights distributor.

The BBC's Piers Edwards explains the little-known story behind the African boycott to the 1966 World Cup, the only World Cup in history to have been snubbed by an entire continent.

What needs to change so that women's club football in Australia can fly, asks SAMANTHA LEWIS.

What needs to change so that women's club football in Australia can fly, asks SAMANTHA LEWIS.

Australia’s top women’s football league does not have dedicated data or research to explore why so many players continue to suffer a serious knee injury Cannon Clough didn’t realise what had happened when she first hit the ground. After leaping up to defend a high ball, the Central Coast Mariners defender felt a kick through her leg. As she landed, her foot went in one direction and her body in another. She heard a pop. Continue reading...