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FIFA president Gianni Infantino's tactic of publicly criticizing broadcasters for offering to pay too little to screen the Women’s World Cup has not worked out yet.

Indonesian soccer players and fans reacted with tears and outrage after the country was stripped of hosting rights for the Under-20 World Cup only eight weeks before the start of the tournament amid political turmoil over Israel’s participation, leaving Indonesian soccer at risk of further sanctions.

Indonesia has been stripped of hosting rights for the Under-20 World Cup amid political turmoil regarding Israel’s participation.

Indonesia could lose its chance to host a global youth soccer tournament, and its chance to qualify for the 2026 World Cup, after refusing to welcome a team from Israel.

FIFA has postponed the men’s Under-20 World Cup finals draw because of host nation Indonesia’s issues with Israel having qualified.

The Women’s World Cup is getting an increase in prize money of more than 300% for this year’s tournament.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has been re-elected by acclaim to another four-year term after suggesting the financial results under his leadership would keep an industry CEO in the job for life.

The global professional soccer players’ union says it sent a letter signed by 150 women’s national team players to FIFA calling for equal World Cup prize money.

The World Cup group stage format for 2026 was changed to 12 groups of four teams from 16 groups of three teams by FIFA’s Council on Tuesday, increasing the total to 104 matches from 64 in the 2022 tournament in Qatar.

The expanded World Cup in North America has gotten even more supersized.

A Swiss newspaper says a spying operation on behalf of World Cup host Qatar bugged a 2017 hotel meeting between FIFA president Gianni Infantino and Switzerland’s then-attorney general.

Haiti’s former soccer federation president whose lifetime ban from the sport over sexual abuse allegations was overturned last month has announced he is reclaiming his position.

Real Madrid defender David Alaba has been racially abused on social media after voting for Lionel Messi and Croatia coach Zlatko Dalić has accused FIFA of disrespect in fallout from the soccer body’s annual awards ceremony.

World Cup winner Lionel Messi has won FIFA’s Best Men’s Player award for 2022.

Testimony from a former ESPN executive is underscoring the high stakes and corruption that has enveloped the world of soccer.

Forward Alex Morgan says the U.S. national team should have internal discussions about whether to play exhibition games in states that restrict transgender kids from participating in sports.

Women’s World Cup co-hosts Australia and New Zealand have urged FIFA not to sign a sponsor deal with the tourism authority of Saudi Arabia.

European champion Real Madrid could face Seattle Sounders at the next edition of the FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco in February.

Grant Wahl was remembered for his peripatetic life as a sportswriter, pursuit of social justice and lasting impact on family, friends and people he mentored.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino was calling it “the best World Cup ever” in Qatar even before an epic final won by Lionel Messi and Argentina against France.

While there is still much to be sorted out logistically for the event, here is what we know at the moment about World Cup 2026.

FIFA expects to earn $11 billion through 2026 with a 48-team men’s World Cup in North America set to deliver a huge rise in revenue.

American soccer writer Grant Wahl has been honored with a tribute from FIFA on the desk where he was due to work at the World Cup quarterfinal match between France and England.

Grant Wahl, an American journalist who helped grow the popularity of soccer in the U.S. and reported on some of the biggest stories in the sport, dies while covering a World Cup match between Argentina and the Netherlands.

The World Cup stadium was designed to leave a minimal footprint in the Qatari sand.

FIFA has brought disciplinary charges against Serbia for alleged misconduct by players and fans including offensive chants at a World Cup game against Switzerland.

FIFA official Arsène Wenger has taken a shot at World Cup teams who tried to make political statements in Qatar.

The high drama of split-screen tension during simultaneous matches in the final set of World Cup group games is now a thing of the past.

French referee Stéphanie Frappart has bocame the first woman to take charge of a men’s World Cup game after blowing her whistle to start Germany’s game against Costa Rica.

The players for both England and Wales took a knee before their final World Cup group game.

Argentina is without Diego Maradona on soccer’s biggest stage for the first time since the 1978 World Cup.

The Welsh soccer federation said FIFA has offered assurances that fans wearing rainbow symbols will be allowed at Friday’s World Cup game against Iran.

European soccer has again showed public frustration with FIFA president Gianni Infantino at the World Cup.

Germany’s players covered their mouths for their team photo before their opening World Cup match in a rebuke of FIFA’s clampdown on plans to wear armbands seen to protest discrimination in host nation Qatar.

Discriminatory chants allegedly by Ecuador fans at the World Cup opening game led FIFA to open the first disciplinary case of the tournament.

The 2022 FIFA World Cup is off and running from Qatar, with a big slate of games coming your way on Tuesday, featuring some of the top teams in the tournament.

Problems with FIFA’s mobile application for World Cup match tickets caused hundreds of fans to miss the start of England's match against Iran.

FIFA’s threat of on-field punishment for players has pushed World Cup teams to back down.

FIFA has tried to end a standoff with European teams about wearing unauthorized captain armbands for an anti-discrimination campaign that draws attention to World Cup host Qatar.

FIFA says it has earned record revenues of $7.5 billion in the four years of commercial deals tied to the World Cup in Qatar.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has downplayed Qatar’s last minute ban on the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums as nothing more than a brief inconvenience to spectators.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has delivered a one-hour tirade on the eve of the World Cup’s opening match and then spent about 45 minutes answering questions from media about the Qatari government’s actions and a wide-range of other topics.

There are many reasons to criticize FIFA for the way they’ve handled the Men’s World Cup that is about to begin in Qatar, and at the top of that list is that they chose to have it in a nation with egregious human rights violations.

Qatar has banned the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has urged world leaders to call for a ceasefire in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine during the World Cup that starts later this week.

Budweiser beer stands at the eight World Cup stadiums are being moved aside to less prominent spots just days before the games start.

Russia hosted the World Cup party in 2018 but now it's off the guest list.

Former Germany captain Philipp Lahm says it was “a mistake” to award the World Cup to Qatar.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter says picking Qatar to host the World Cup was a mistake 12 years ago.

European nations, including England, are pushing FIFA for “concrete answers” on issues relating to migrant workers ahead of the World Cup.

Soccer's top officials have urged the 32 teams preparing for the most political World Cup in the modern to focus on the game in Qatar and avoid handing out lessons in morality.

Women’s soccer is seeing growing revenues globally from sponsorships, broadcast deals and merchandising, while also seeing greater interest from fans, according to a new survey by the game’s governing body.

Ukraine’s top soccer club has urged FIFA to remove Iran from the World Cup because of the country’s alleged military support to the Russian invasion.

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has criticized broadcasters for what he calls unacceptably low offers for rights to screen the Women’s World Cup next year.

The first World Cup in the Middle East is only one month away.

The president of soccer’s world governing body has met with Indonesia’s president and pledged to help improve stadium safety to prevent a repeat of a tragedy in which police fired tear gas at a match, causing a crush that killed 132 people.

A top FIFA official says it wants to help workers in Qatar get compensation for being injured while building projects for the World Cup.

Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo says the country won't face sanctions from soccer’s world governing body after the firing of tear gas inside a half-locked stadium caused a deadly crush.

Ukrainian soccer federation president Andriy Pavelko says hosting World Cup matches in 2030 would be “the dream of people who survived the horrors of war” after his country launched a joint bid with Spain and Portugal.

Ukraine is set to join Spain and Portugal in a combined bid to host the 2030 World Cup.

Gaining the right to host next year’s Under-20 World Cup was a major milestone in Indonesia’s soccer development that raised hopes of a turnaround to long-standing problems that have blighted the sport in this country of 277 million people.

A minute of silence has been observed before soccer matches around the world in honor of victims of the disaster at a stadium in Indonesia that claimed at least 125 lives.

Police firing tear gas after an Indonesian soccer match in an attempt to stop violence triggered a disastrous crush of fans that has left at least 125 people dead.

FIFA has come under pressure from several European soccer federations who want to support a human rights campaign against discrimination at the World Cup.

Chile has lost its appeal to replace Ecuador at the World Cup in Qatar but the verdict by FIFA will likely lead the case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Organizers of the World Cup in Qatar have finalized a policy to serve beer with alcohol to soccer fans in the Muslim-majority country.

FIFA has formally moved the World Cup start up by one day to Nov. 20.

The World Cup in Qatar could start one day earlier than scheduled.

The Olympic soccer competition at the 2024 Paris Games will conclude with the women’s final for the first time.

Russia remains barred from international soccer competitions including the Champions League after the Court of Arbitration for Sport rejected appeals by the national soccer federation and four clubs.

FIFA will introduce new technology to improve offside calls at the World Cup in Qatar this year, using a limb-tracking camera system.

There’s a push for the cities awarded games for the 2026 World Cup to commit to livable wages, and equitable hiring and worker protection.

Atlanta, Houston, Miami, Philadelphia and Seattle and Kansas City, Missouri, were the newcomers among the 11 U.S. sites picked to host games at the 2026 World Cup, while Baltimore, Cincinnati, Denver, Nashville, Tennessee, and Orlando, Florida, were left out.

FIFA, the world’s governing body of soccer and organizer of the World Cup, will announce the host cities for the 2026 World Cup during a 5 p.m. ET event in New York City.

U.S. cities and states have lined up with tax breaks and millions of dollars in both public and private investments for a chance at hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

FIFA plans to announce the 2026 World Cup sites, trimming the U.S. list from 17 to 10-12.

Ecuador has kept its place at the World Cup.

Female referees will make World Cup history this year by working games at a major men’s tournament for the first time in Qatar.

FIFA has received 3 million ticket requests for the World Cup final in Qatar and high demand to attend some of its biggest group-stage games.

FIFA President Gianni Infantino says migrant workers gain pride from hard work while he was being questioned about workers suffering in Qatar while building World Cup infrastructure.

Qatar World Cup organizers have admitted that workers were exploited while contracted for FIFA preparation tournaments.

The most controversial World Cup ever will feature in Qatar the most politically charged matchups.

A senior Qatari leader overseeing security for the World Cup has told The Associated Press that rainbow flags could be taken from supporters.

The appearance by video of the head of Ukrainian soccer, wearing an armored vest from the streets of Kyiv, brought the impact of Russia’s war into the FIFA Congress.

A Norwegian soccer official has delivered a scathing criticism of World Cup host Qatar and FIFA to an audience of executives on the eve of the tournament’s draw.

Qatar is the next stop on the global tour of major sports events to nations led by autocratic governments who are often decried by human rights activists.

A World Cup like no other in its 92-year history will take shape this week at an unprecedented tournament draw.

Next week’s World Cup draw will have some of its seedings skewed because of Russia’s war with Ukraine and the COVID-19 pandemic.

Russia’s request to freeze a FIFA ban on its soccer teams ahead of next week’s World Cup qualifying playoffs has been denied.

The ban on Russian soccer teams from European competition has been upheld by the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The Russian soccer federation has appealed to have its FIFA and UEFA bans frozen and other punishments overturned.

FIFA has intervened to allow foreign players and coaches based in Russia to leave their clubs, although only for the rest of the season.

Mexico's top-division soccer league has suspended all matches scheduled for Sunday after a massive brawl among fans.

The International Olympic Committee has made a sweeping move to isolate and condemn Russia over the country’s invasion of Ukraine.

As head of the German soccer federation and a FIFA executive committee member, Theo Zwanziger was among his sport’s most prominent critics of the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar.

FIFA drew a swift backlash from European nations for not immediately expelling Russia from World Cup qualifying and only ordering the country to play at neutral venues under the name of its federation, the Football Union of Russia.

Poland’s refusal to play its World Cup qualifier against Russia next month in response to that nation's invasion of Ukraine gained wider support when Sweden followed with its own plans to protest to FIFA.

Patrice Motsepe is approaching the end of his first year as Confederation of African Football president.

FIFA’s fading plan for biennial World Cups has been labeled a threat from soccer to all other sports by the International Olympic Committee.

Boxing, weightlifting and modern pentathlon have been set a target of about 18 months to make changes in order to keep their status as Olympic sports for the 2028 Los Angeles Games.