The FA Cup will not have replays for the 2020-21 season to help ease fixture congestion caused by the COVID-19 crisis, England's Football Association (FA) said on Thursday.
Next season's competition is scheduled to begin on Sept. 1 — only a month after the 2020 final — with the showpiece match at Wembley set to take place on May 15, 2021.
Most of us are excited to see a new season of the Premier League — one that’s closer to normal. As with any season, there have been some triumphs and some heartbreaks. The promotion of Fulham, Leeds and West Brom is sure to add a new flare to the league. And saying goodbye to the relegated Bournemouth, Watford and Norwich City left tears in some fans' eyes. Football lovers everywhere are asking themselves when will the next Premier League season start.
A flurry of football action filled screens when the sport resumed following months of hiatus due to coronavirus. With major domestic league seasons finished and the Champions League wrapping up in August, it’s hard to believe that football again resumes soon. Fans of German football are already starting to ask when will the next Bundesliga season start. The answer: in one months-time, near the end of September.
There has been no word from the NCAA itself on whether or not all fall sports will be postponed, but NCAA D-II and D-III decided to cancel the fall championships on Wednesday, Aug. 5. This decision left many people puzzled: What would players be competing for if not for championships?
The NCAA Division II and Division III fall championships for the 2020 season were canceled on Wednesday, ending the hopes and aspirations of soccer players across the country before they could even begin the season. The Division II Presidents Council cited “operational, logistical and financial challenges presented by the Covid-19 pandemic” as the reasoning.
In addition to women’s and men’s soccer, football, women’s and men’s cross country, field hockey, women’s volleyball and men’s water polo are affected. Students affected will not lose a year of eligibility.
After five excruciating months, European continental club football is back, with Europa League resuming play on Wednesday followed by the Champions League coming back on Friday. But the games aren’t on TNT and B/R Live like they were at the start of the competition. So we’re here to help guide you on how to stream Champions League for free in US — and the Europa League too.
Ahead of the Champions League and Europa League knockout matches that begin this week, European soccer governing body UEFA has released a document with a list of protocols for the return to competition amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The protocols will also apply to international matches that are scheduled to be played this year.
"Non-respect of such social norms could have serious consequences for the staging of international matches," UEFA said.
Following are the rules teams and officials must adhere to:
Constantly pronouncing someone’s name wrong is a microaggression. And if you don’t agree with that then you have probably never had your name mispronounced on a daily basis.
In Amazon Prime’s upcoming series All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur, Tottenham manager José Mourinho reveals that people have been pronouncing his name wrong since the beginning — and it drives him nuts.
The series released a teaser for the episode (set to come out later this summer) that shows Mourinho saying, “Everybody gets my name wrong."
Back in January, Deloitte published its annual Football Money League table to showcase the 20 highest earning football clubs in the world based on turnover for the 2018-19 season. At the top was Barcelona with revenues of over $1 billion. Revenue growth amongst the world’s wealthiest clubs has been exponential over the last decade, a fact that’s verified by Barça’s 1997-98 turnover of $63.5 million — the sixth-highest number on the planet at the time.
It's no secret that Italy is home to some of the most famous soccer stadiums in Europe.
From Milan's world-renowned San Siro and Turin's aesthetically-pleasing new Juventus Stadium in the north, to the historic Olimpico of Rome and Napoli's intimidating Stadio San Paolo in the south, famous footballing grounds can be found seemingly anywhere on the peninsula.