The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has brought forward by a day the 2026 World Cup qualifier between the Super Eagles and Crocodiles of Lesotho. NFF yesterday said that the CAF Group C World Cup qualifying game, originally fixed for November 17, 2023, will…

Newcastle United’s Italian international midfielder Sandro Tonali has been banned for 10 months for betting, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) said on Thursday. The 23-year-old was found to have gambled on matches involving his former club AC Milan before he joined Saudi-owned Newcastle…

Kylian Mbappe, Randal Kolo Muani and Lee Kang-in were all on target as Paris Saint-Germain got back to winning ways in the Champions League with an impressive 3-0 home victory against AC Milan on Wednesday. PSG were eager to bounce back from their…

Super Falcons and Ethiopia’s Lucy put up a hard-fought battle in Addis Ababa on Wednesday afternoon with the 2024 Olympic Qualifier game ending 1-1 to set up an interesting return leg in Abuja on Tuesday next week. Captain Rasheedat Ajibade’s scorching shot from…

Nigeria on Monday laboured to a hard-fought 3-2 win against Mozambique at the Estadio Municipal De Albufeira Portimao in Portugal to end their 16 games without a win in a friendly game, PUNCH Sports Extra reports. Jose Peseiro made nine changes to the squad that played…

Anthony Joshua will have to wait until March at the earliest to face Deontay Wilder after the heavyweight showdown suffered a new delay, reports mirror.co.uk. Joshua had hoped to fight his rival in either December or January in the Middle East, but will…

While stars such as Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar and Karim Benzema have taken men's football in Saudi Arabia to the next level, the country was already an Asian powerhouse and home to some of the biggest and most successful men's clubs on the continent.…

German club Borussia Dortmund turned down a golden opportunity to sign prolific forward Victor Boniface in the summer, Punch Sports Extra has learnt. According to Fussballtransfers, the Black and Yellows were offered the Nigerian forward but rejected the chance to sign the 22-year-old from…

World Athletics (WA), yesterday, unveiled the names of nominees for Women’s Athlete of the Year 2023, but the name of 100m hurdles record holder, Nigeria’s Tobi Amusan, is missing from the lot. Amusan, who is Nigeria, Africa and Commonwealth champion in the 100m…

More than a year after his ‘schoolboy error’ caused the Super Eagles a place in the quarterfinal at the 2021 AFCON in Cameroon, Udinese goalkeeper, Maduka Okoye, is making a return to the team for today’s friendly match with Saudi Arabia in Portugal.…