European Football

56 articles tagged with "European Football"

Sep 25, 2026

Premier League clubs spent €4.6bn this summer, and Uefa says the market now runs at two speeds

Uefa’s latest transfer report puts English spending above the next eight European countries combined, and its finance chief calls the model fragile.

Sep 22, 2026

Xhaka has 152 Switzerland caps, and he is missing the next four over a Covid certificate

Switzerland’s most-capped player has admitted obtaining a vaccination certificate in 2022 without being vaccinated, and prosecutors in Lucerne have op...

Sep 18, 2026

Villarreal were 1-0 down at La Rosaleda, and their first win of the season came at the sixth attempt

Carlos Dotor put Malaga ahead in the 12th minute. Alberto Moleiro and a Pape Gueye double turned it round, and Villarreal climbed out of the relegatio...

Sep 16, 2026

Sunderland are back in Europe after 53 years, and the Stadium of Light has never hosted a European tie

The Europa League league phase opens tonight with Sunderland hosting AZ Alkmaar at 12:30am IST. The last time Sunderland played in Europe they were a...

Sep 16, 2026

Real Madrid were two up at half-time at the bottom club, and Carlos Espí won it in the 91st

Elche came back from 2-0 down to level with seven minutes left before a summer signing off the bench settled it in stoppage time. Real Madrid won 3-2...

Sep 14, 2026

PSG needed four attempts to win a Ligue 1 game, and Ferran Torres settled it in five minutes

The French and European champions had two points from three league matches before Sunday night in Brittany. A 25-yard finish inside five minutes final...

Sep 11, 2026

Slavia Prague led twice with ten men, and Lens scored twice in stoppage time to take it

A Slavia substitute was sent off four minutes into the second half. Danijel Sturm scored twice anyway, and Lens still won 3-2 in Prague through Floria...

Sep 10, 2026

Galatasaray’s 45 million euro signing came on in the 58th minute, and Sporting scored again five minutes later

Rafael Leao spent the first hour on the bench in Lisbon, and by the time Galatasaray sent him on, Sporting were already on their way to a 3-1 win.

Sep 10, 2026

Ferran Torres needed 26 minutes for his hat-trick, and PSG have finally won a game

PSG had gone four matches without a win and sat 13th in Ligue 1. Their Champions League defence opened with 35 shots, six goals and a hat-trick from t...

Sep 10, 2026

Mac Allister said Liverpool would not offer him a new contract, and a day later he beat Atletico from 20 yards

Liverpool came from behind to win their Champions League opener 2-1 at Anfield. Marcos Llorente scored against them for the fifth time, all five at th...

Sep 9, 2026

Marin’s free-kick was the only goal, and LASK’s first Champions League night ended with a header over the bar

LASK reached the Champions League by overturning a four-goal aggregate deficit against Celtic. Their first match in the competition ended with Kalajdz...

Sep 9, 2026

Guirassy scored at both ends on his 100th Dortmund appearance, and Villarreal still lost

Serhou Guirassy marked his 100th Borussia Dortmund appearance with two goals and an own goal, and Dortmund opened their Champions League campaign with...

Sep 9, 2026

Haaland has 59 Champions League goals in 59 games, and Porto did not have a shot on target

Erling Haaland scored twice at the Estádio do Dragão as Manchester City opened the league phase with a 2-0 win. Francesco Farioli’s first night as a C...

Sep 8, 2026

Marcos Llorente has scored four goals at Anfield, and Atletico lost both games

Liverpool open the Champions League league phase against Atletico Madrid on Wednesday, with Andoni Iraola still on one win and Diego Simeone’s side co...

Sep 8, 2026

Aston Villa have not scored a league goal all season, and tonight the Champions League starts

The Europa League holders begin their league phase in Bruges at 22:15 IST, sitting 17th in England with one point and an empty goals column.

Sep 8, 2026

Mourinho won a treble at the Bernabeu with Inter, and Chivu was his left-back that night

Sixteen years after the 2010 final, the two men are back at the same ground on opposite benches. Real Madrid host Inter at 12.30am IST on Wednesday.

Sep 7, 2026

Troyes had conceded one goal in two games, and then Strasbourg’s substitutes scored three

Strasbourg were behind after nine minutes at the Stade de l’Aube and won 6-2. Samuel Amo-Ameyaw and Conrad Harder came on with the game already settle...

Aug 28, 2026

Arsenal drew Real Madrid and Bayern, and PSG got Barcelona and Manchester City

The 2026/27 Champions League league phase draw was made in Monaco on 27 August. Arsenal, beaten in the final in May, host Real Madrid and travel to Ba...

Aug 26, 2026

The Champions League draw is on Thursday, and four of the 36 places are still open

Monaco hosts the league-phase draw at 9.30pm IST on Thursday. Five English clubs are in the pot, PSG go in as back-to-back winners, and four ties on W...

Aug 18, 2026

The Champions League play-offs start tonight, and Fenerbahce vs Lyon is the tie to stay up for

Seven places in the league phase are still open. Three first legs kick off at 00:30 IST tonight, with Celtic and Bodo/Glimt among four more on Wednesd...

Aug 18, 2026

Benfica score seven at Casa Pia, and Pavlidis’s hat-trick took seven minutes

Benfica’s first league win of the season was a 0-7 rout in Rio Maior, with Vangelis Pavlidis scoring three times between the 47th and the 54th minute.

Aug 13, 2026

Madjo scores at 17 years and 212 days, and PSG still retain the Super Cup

Paris Saint-Germain beat Aston Villa 2-1 in Salzburg to keep the UEFA Super Cup, but the night belonged to a 17-year-old who a court cleared to play o...

Aug 12, 2026

PSG vs Aston Villa: Emery has lost three Super Cup finals, and Luis Enrique beat him in one

Unai Emery has reached four Super Cup finals and lost the first three, one of them to Luis Enrique. He gets another go in Salzburg, where both manager...

Aug 11, 2026

Paciência scores twice in two minutes, and Nacional still leave the Azores with a point

Santa Clara were 2-0 up after 21 minutes of the new Portuguese season and level by half-time. The islanders’ derby that closed round one finished 2-2.