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May 20, 2026

Arsenal arrive in Budapest as Premier League champions with PSG and a 20-year wait in the way

A look ahead to the 2026 UEFA Champions League final at the Puskás Aréna on May 30, where PSG defend Europe and Arsenal chase a first European cup.

May 19, 2026

From three runners-up to champions: Arsenal close the 22-year Premier League gap

Arteta’s third try at the title arrived quietly on Tuesday night, settled by Haaland’s stoppage-time equaliser at the Vitality. Six years of building,...

May 19, 2026

Sunday afternoon takes the title, Spurs against the drop and 10 Premier League kickoffs at once

The Premier League ends with the title, the last European places and the last relegation slot all live as 10 fixtures kick off together on Sunday afte...

May 18, 2026

Napoli lock the second Champions League seat at Pisa, and turn matchday 38 into a four-way fight

Scott McTominay, Amir Rrahmani and Rasmus Hojlund got the goals in Naples’s 3-0 at Pisa. The next two Champions League seats now belong to whichever p...

May 13, 2026

PSG’s attack meets Arsenal’s wall as the 2026 Champions League final lands in Budapest

PSG arrive at the Puskás Aréna chasing back-to-back European titles with the most prolific attack left in the competition. Arsenal arrive having conce...

May 12, 2026

0-3 to China hurts, but India’s U-17 women just left a marker the AIFF cannot ignore

India’s U-17 women bowed out of the AFC Asian Cup to hosts China, but the campaign broke a 22-year quarter-final drought for Indian women’s football a...

May 9, 2026

How Aston Villa’s Europa League final could turn sixth place into a Champions League ticket for Bournemouth, Brentford or Brighton

Aston Villa’s run to the Europa League final has set up an unusual chain: if Villa hold a top-five Premier League finish and beat Freiburg in Istanbul...

May 8, 2026

Emery’s Europa machine meets Freiburg’s first European final at Beşiktaş Park

Aston Villa face Freiburg at Beşiktaş Park on 20 May in a Europa League final that pits Unai Emery’s record four titles against a Bundesliga side reac...

May 7, 2026

Arsenal vs PSG in Budapest: the questions that will decide the Champions League final

Arsenal’s first European Cup final in 20 years meets PSG’s bid to become the first repeat Champions League winners since Real Madrid. The matchup has...

May 6, 2026

Sixteen months in Paris: Kvaratskhelia’s PSG-record Champions League campaign goes to Munich

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has 10 goals and 5 assists in this season’s Champions League, a PSG single-season record beating Ousmane Dembélé’s mark, and ano...

May 4, 2026

Champions League semi-finals return with Arsenal-Atleti on Tuesday and Bayern-PSG on Wednesday

After a 1-1 in Madrid and the highest-scoring semi-final in Champions League history, all four teams head into Tuesday and Wednesday’s second legs wit...

May 3, 2026

Inter clinch the Scudetto at San Siro as Thuram and Mkhitaryan ease past Parma

Marcus Thuram and Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored either side of the hour to beat Parma 2-0, sealing Inter’s 21st Serie A title with three rounds still to p...

Apr 29, 2026

Real Madrid open contract extension talks with Aurelien Tchouameni as Manchester United and Liverpool circle

Real Madrid have begun internal talks on extending Aurelien Tchouameni’s contract beyond 2028, a response to renewed Manchester United and Liverpool i...

Apr 27, 2026

PSG and Bayern, the two highest-scoring sides in Europe, meet at the Parc des Princes for the Champions League final’s harder semi

PSG, the holders, host a Bayern side that has won five of their last six meetings against them, in a Champions League semi-final first leg at the Parc...

Apr 24, 2026

Bayern and Stuttgart for the fourth time: the DFB-Pokal final is the one meeting the Swabians can finally win

Bayern have beaten Stuttgart three times already this season across three competitions. The DFB-Pokal final in Berlin on May 23 gives Sebastian Hoenes...

Apr 22, 2026

Six points, seven games: Barcelona host Celta Vigo with the La Liga title there for the taking

Hansi Flick’s Barcelona sit six points clear of Real Madrid with seven La Liga games to play. Beat Celta Vigo tonight and the door to a Camp Nou title...

Apr 21, 2026

Atletico vs Arsenal is the kinder semi-final on paper and a far tougher one than the October rematch suggests

Arsenal travel to the Riyadh Air Metropolitano on April 29 for the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Atletico Madrid, six months...

Apr 18, 2026

Life after Salah: the scale of the summer job facing Arne Slot and Liverpool

With Mohamed Salah and Andy Robertson both leaving at the end of the season, Liverpool are staring at the biggest rebuild of the Slot era, and the clo...

Apr 18, 2026

De Zerbi’s Spurs face Brighton with relegation now a real and present danger

Tottenham have not won a Premier League game in 2026, sit two points adrift of safety, and host a Brighton side on a three-match winning run. The numb...

Apr 17, 2026

Four clubs, two ties and a Budapest final: the Champions League semi-finals are set

Arsenal face Atletico Madrid and PSG take on Bayern Munich in the Champions League semi-finals, with the first legs scheduled for April 28 and 29 and...

Apr 13, 2026

Liverpool and Barcelona face must-win Champions League nights as quarter-final second legs arrive

Both Liverpool and Barcelona trail heading into Tuesday’s second legs, while Arsenal and Bayern Munich carry first-leg advantages into Wednesday’s ret...

Apr 12, 2026

Seven games left and four clubs clinging on: the Premier League relegation battle explained

Tottenham, West Ham, Nottingham Forest and Leeds are separated by a handful of points with seven matches remaining, and the schedule is loaded with si...

Apr 10, 2026

Fifth Champions League spot confirmed and half the Premier League is chasing it

The Premier League has secured a fifth Champions League place for the second year running, and the race for it could go down to the final day with jus...

Apr 8, 2026

Liverpool head to Paris in poor shape for a PSG tie that could define their season

PSG host Liverpool at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday night in a Champions League quarter-final first leg that pits a runaway Ligue 1 leader against...