Norway 4 Iceland 3
July 10 – With two goals and two assists, twenty-year-old Signe Gaupset steered Norway, coming from behind, to a 4-3 victory against Iceland to maintain her country’s perfect record at Euro 2025 ahead of the quarter-finals.
December 13 – The boom in the iGaming industry’s worldwide growth in the last couple of years has left punters with multiple football betting options as punters wager on the players and teams they like. Not all the odds being offered are necessarily good and using a resource like www.silentbet.com, where you will find reviews of the hottest betting websites, can be vital in choosing where you place your money.
December 22 – Morocco have climbed the FIFA ranking following their spectacular semi-final run at the World Cup, with newly crowned world champions Argentina moving into second and quarter-finalists Brazil just about holding on to top spot.
December 22 – African football boss Patrice Motsepe has once again failed to provide a credible update on his confederation’s plans to launch a Super League in 2023, this time suggesting too many clubs have expressed an interest in the competition.
December 22 – UEFA is reported to be getting increasingly frustrated over lack of sufficient guarantees by the UK and Ireland’s bid to host Euro 2028.
December 22 – More than 348,000 fans have attended games in the Women’s Super League in the first half of the 2022/23 season, a rise of 227% on the previous season, according to the English FA, who have hailed 2022 as a historic breakthrough year for the women’s game in the country.
December 22 – Premier League Nottingham Forest is giving its front of shirt sponsorship position to UK for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency.
December 22 – Pelé’s health has worsened during attempts to regulate his cancer medication, his doctors have admitted, and his family say he will remain in hospital over Christmas.
December 22 – Brentford striker Ivan Toney has been charged with a further 30 breaches of England’s betting on football regulations that prevents active professional players from wagering on football.
December 22 – French superstar Karim Benzema could reverse his decision to retire from international football if Zinedine Zidane takes over from Didier Deschamps as manager of the national team, according to French reports.
December 22 – It looks like the Trinidad and Tobago FA’s creditors will once again be the turkeys this Christmas. Having agreed to a proposed settlement via a court appointed trustee, the proposed payment this month has been shelved.
December 22 – Tottenham Hotspur has agreed a multi-year deal sponsorship with INEOS Grenadier who will become the club’s its Official 4×4 Vehicle Partner.
December 21 – Argentina’s World Cup heroes were forced to abandon an open-top bus parade in Buenos Aires on Tuesday as millions of ecstatic fans brought the city to a standstill.
December 21 – Ukrainian club FC Shakhtar has said the suspension of international player contracts when Russia began its invasion of Ukraine has cost the club about €40 million, and was an “inappropriate and over-reaching measure” applied by FIFA.
December 21 – Confederation of African Football (CAF) president Patrice Motsepe has said that the dispute with the confederation’s commercial rights agency Lagardere, which has left a huge hole in the finances of the confederation, has been settled in an “amicable” way.
December 21 – With the World Cup at an end and Doha returning to some sense of normality, FIFA is thinking of the future and has reportedly re-floated the idea of staging the World Cup on a triennial basis.