Canada 5 Honduras 0
June 17 – Canada over the past six years have forced their way into Concacaf’s elite but have so often flattered to deceive. They are the team everyone quite likes but have never delivered the championship title their talent screams for. Re-adjust everyone.
March 24 – The DFL Deutsche Fußball Liga and the Korea Football Association (KFA) have formalised a new cooperation agreement aimed at driving technical development in Korean football and deepening commercial ties between one of Europe’s most broadcast leagues and one of Asia’s most engaged markets.
March 24 – Premier League club Brentford have entered into a strategic partnership with Portuguese side Gil Vicente, aiming to bolster player development, performance, and operational expertise.
March 24 – New Zealand laboured to a 3-0 victory against New Caledonia to qualify for the 2026 World Cup and return to the global stage for the first time in 16 years.
March 24 – While Gianni Infantino is enjoying his honeymoon bounce with Donald Trump, he’ll soon realise that everything with Trump is transactional and that includes the requested $625 million in federal funding for security costs by host cities.
March 24 – DAZN’s quest to become the global broadcast leader in football has taken another step forward with the announcement that the platform will be the global broadcasting, production, sales and marketing partner of Worlds Sevens Football (W7F).
March 23 – Canada hustled and bustled an at times indifferent USA to take third place in the Nations League with a 2-1 win.
March 23 – Fantasy sports Underdog has become the fantasy sports platform an official partner of the 2025 Concacaf Nations League Finals.
March 24 – With two goals Romelu Lukaku fired Belgium to a 3-0 win against Ukraine to erase a shock 3-1 defeat from the first leg and retain his side’s spot in the Nations League A-League.
March 24 – Sportradar has acquired IMG Arena’s portfolio of sports betting rights increasing its coverage of tennis, football and basketball.
March 24 – The Football Federation of North Macedonia (FFM) is to donate all proceeds from ticket sales for Tuesday’s World Cup qualifier against Wales.
March 22 – The joy of Panamanian Ceclio Waterman, as he celebrated his last-minute winner against the USA on the set of CBS with former Arsenal great and TV pundit, Thierry Henry, screaming ‘Eres mi idolo’, Spanish for ‘You’re my idol’, reminded all watching that ‘this is the reason we love the game’.
March 21 – SoFi stadium, Inglewood, California is for all intents and purposes a spaceship, and the United States Men’s National Team (USMNT) probably wishes they were boarding it with a one-way ticket to Mars after being dumped out of the Concacaf Nations League semifinal by Panama.
March 22 – Prior to the Concacaf Nations League doubleheader on Thursday at SoFi Stadium, Inglewood, California, the smart money was on the USA and Canada to advance and contest the final on Sunday. 180 minutes later, the smart money looked foolish.
March 20 – Mexico weathered a relentless Canadian storm to win 2-0 and set up a Nations League final against Panama, a repeat of the Gold Cup final in 2023 when Concacaf were last in the SoFi Stadium.
March 21 – The governance of South American football is under renewed pressure as Conmebol President Alejandro Domínguez faces a formal legal complaint in Brazil, deepening tensions with the continent’s largest footballing power over his handling – and apparent trivialisation – of racism in the game.