Guatemala 0-1 Panama:
June 20 – Friday night at Q2 Stadium bore no resemblance to the venue that hosted football just 24 hours earlier. The transformation was complete, and the catalyst was simple: unbridled passion provided by the hordes of Guatemala supporters who descended on Austin. Stark contrast to the lack of interest shown by US fans on Thursday.
Haiti 1 Trinidad and Tobago 1
June 19 – Haiti and Trinidad and Tobago delivered 90 minutes of full-blooded football on a steaming hot, late afternoon in Houston at the Shell Energy Stadium battling to a draw that keeps them both in with a chance of making it into the knockout round.
June 19 – The Premier League has warned fans to brace for short-notice fixture changes next season, as a record nine English clubs compete in UEFA competitions during the 2025/26 campaig, increasing pressure on an already congested calendar.
June 19 – The latest report from the CIES Football Observatory highlights the growing dominance of a select few major sports agencies in European football, with the top firms now representing player assets worth billions of euros across the big five leagues.
June 19 – Chelsea and Ukraine winger Mykhailo Mudryk is facing a potential four-year suspension after being formally charged by the Football Association for a doping violation.
By Samindra Kunti in Philadephia, USA
June 19 – Countering a major international backlash, FIFA played anti-racism messages at Wednesday’s Club World Cup matches to mark the International Day for Countering Hate Speech.
June 19 – The Bulgarian Football Union (BFS) has signed a cooperation agreement with the online platform Scouty.bg. The web-based forum enables players to create professional profiles, showcasing their skills, sharing matches, and displaying various performance statistics and achievements.
June 19 – Just when you thought the Glazers couldn’t find new ways to squeeze every last penny out of Manchester United’s supporters, along comes a substantial increase in ticket prices for high-profile fixtures.
June 19 – Atlético Madrid have pitched up in the City of Angels with “Casa Atleti,” a multi-day brand circus that’s part retail therapy, part fan festival, and cleverly designed to separate Americans from their hard-earned dollars while competing in the FIFA Club World Cup.
June 19 – Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) have once again mixed football, fashion, and music. The French giants have teamed up with singing superstar The Weeknd and his XO brand, this time with a glitzy “Beyond Limits. Beyond Borders” campaign that’s got the City of Angels, Los Angeles written all over it.
June 18 – In the most surreal moments of the Club World Cup to date (and there have been a few), FIFA President Gianni Infantino paraded players and management from the Juventus team at the White House while US President Donald Trump was in the midst of a press briefing where he was answering questions about whether the US would be engaging militarily in the Israel/Iran conflict.
June 18 – The Sport Integrity Global Alliance (SIGA) has launched its Sport Transparency Index, a benchmarking tool to assess transparency and good governance across the European Sport ecosystem.
The Index focuses on European Sport Stakeholders, from professional clubs to leagues, national federations and international governing bodies. In its first iteration the Index ranks almost 650 organisations, predominantly from Germany, Italy, France and Spain.
Mexico 2-0 Suriname:
June 18 – The Mexican national team is perhaps the only country in world football that plays home matches in two countries. The Azteca Stadium in Mexico City is, of course, their spiritual home; however, in Los Angeles – where they roared to victory over the Dominican Republic – and tonight in the heart of Texas at AT&T Stadium in Arlington versus Suriname, the team is welcomed by partisan support and rapturous anticipation.
Costa Rica 2 Dominican Republic 1
June 28 – Picture this: AT&T Stadium, Arlington, Texas, a gleaming, cavernous, colossus of modern architecture, standing like a metallic monument to American excess. With its 80,000-seat capacity echoing like a vast, empty cathedral, barely 3,000 souls scattered across its bowels at kickoff. It didn’t matter.
June 18 – Having thumped Honduras 6-0 last night in Vancouver and riding the high of becoming one of the favourites for the Gold Cup, today the Canadians are facing the low further disciplinary sanctions against their coach Jesse Marsch.
June 18 – Javier Tebas is seemingly determined not to make FIFA President Gianni Infantino’s Christmas card list, as his criticisms of the expanded FIFA Club World Cup are becoming increasingly vitriolic. But here’s the thing – he might actually have a point.