Qatar World Cup bid chief executive Hassan al-Thawadi believes that awarding the tournament to the Middle East for the first time would help improve international relations wi...More>
The Competition Commission is investigating six South African airlines for allegedly plotting to increase fares for local flights during this summer’s World Cup.
Airlink, C...More>
The Holland-Belgium World Cup bid has welcomed Sepp Blatter’s comments about countries co-hosting major tournaments.
The Fifa president said at the end of last week that hi...More>
Brazilian legend Zico is to become an ambassador for Japan’s World Cup bid.
He has strong links with Japanese football having coached the national team at the 2006 World Cu...More>
The German Government has distanced itself from comments made by Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness about South Africa being a bad choice to host the World Cup.
Hoeness sa...More>
Bayern Munich president Uli Hoeness has slammed Sepp Blatter and Fifa for choosing South Africa to host this summer’s World Cup.
Hoeness, who says he will not be attending ...More>
The Football Federation of Australia (FFA) has hinted that it will make 2022 its priority after Fifa president Sepp Blatter revealed that the race to host the 2018 World Cup c...More>
Russia’s World Cup bid team has made its second senior appointment in the last week.
Viacheslav Koloskov, who served on the Fifa executive committee for 30 years in two sep...More>
Fifa has announced that two-thirds of the tickets for this summer’s World Cup have been sold with the tournament now just over four months away.
It said that a total of 1.2...More>
Indonesia’s hopes of staging the 2022 World Cup have been dealt a further blow after the country’s sports minister said it was more important to qualify for the tournament tha...More>
The opening of the stadium that will host this year’s World Cup Final in South Africa has been delayed.
Soccer City, in the Soweto area of Johannesburg, was due to host the...More>
A dispute has broken out between Korea’s national television networks over the rights to broadcast major sporting events.
KBS and MBC jointly filed for arbitration at the K...More>
Football Federation Australia (FFA) has promoted Rod Allen to head of media relations.
Allen, who joined the country’s World Cup bid team in November as a senior media advi...More>
Japan’s national rugby coach John Kirwan foresees problems if the country wins the 2018 football World Cup on top of hosting the rugby equivalent a year later.
Kirwan says ...More>
The South African Football Association (SAFA) is millions of rand in the red, it has been claimed.
The Mail&Guardian; newspaper in South Africa says it has had access to SAF...More>
Fifa president Sepp Blatter has revealed that the race to host the 2018 World Cup could be limited to European countries.
England and Russia have applied separately to stag...More>
Russia’s World Cup bid has appointed former Fifa head of communications Markus Siegler as a “special adviser”.
He joins Andreas Herren, a former director of communications ...More>
