Italy will first host Northern Ireland in a World Cup qualifying playoff in March but then would go on the road to reach its first tournament after back-to-back failures at this stage.

Erling Haaland’s latest double covered over a bad mistake from Gianluigi Donnarumma in Manchester City’s 3-1 win over Bournemouth that lifted the team into second place in the Premier League.

West Ham's struggles with poor defending continued as the team lost 2-1 at Leeds in the Premier League.

Against the geopolitical backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in early 2022, a consortium led by American private equity titans took the opportunity to acquire one of soccer’s crown jewels.

Graham Potter has been hired as the coach of Sweden’s national soccer team.

West Ham fired manager Graham Potter and hired Nuno Espirito Santo as his replacement on Saturday, just five games into the new Premier League season and two days before the struggling London team’s next match at Everton.

Dominik Szoboszlai has curled home a brilliant long-range free kick to earn Liverpool a 1-0 win over Arsenal in an early-season meeting between two of the likely Premier League title contenders.

West Ham handed relegation-threatened Leicester its fourth straight Premier League loss by beating Ruud van Nistelrooy’s team 2-0.

Chelsea has moved into fourth place in the Premier League after a hard-fought 2-1 win over West Ham.

The records keep coming for Erling Haaland at Manchester City.

Karim Benzema has scored again against Chelsea to lead Real Madrid to a 2-0 win in the first leg of the quarterfinals of the Champions League.

Frank Lampard is returning to Chelsea as interim manager until the end of the season while the club searches for a fulltime replacement for Graham Potter.

Premier League managers are losing their jobs at a quicker rate than ever.

Chelsea has fired manager Graham Potter with the club languishing in the middle of the Premier League standings despite spending around $630 million on players in the last two transfer windows.

Chelsea manager Graham Potter is facing a critical point of his early reign.

What else can Manchester United achieve in a season that is shaping up nicely for manager Erik ten Hag.

Chelsea manager Graham Potter says he and his family have received death threats in the wake of the team’s poor form.

In an English Premier League title race that keeps producing twists, the pendulum has swung back Arsenal’s way again after a frustrating day for Manchester City.

The Premier League is getting ready to pause for the World Cup and some unlikely storylines are in place for the second half of the season.

Brighton has beaten Chelsea 4-1 in the English Premier League to hand Graham Potter his first loss since leaving the south-coast club to take over the Blues in September.

Pep Guardiola says Liverpool fans will have to improve their aim after claiming coins were thrown at him and missed during Manchester City’s 1-0 defeat at Anfield in the Premier League.

Erling Haaland scored again as Manchester City routed Southampton 4-0 to go top of the English Premier League.

Having little soccer experience hasn't stopped American businessman Todd Boehly making some big calls in his first 100 days as the face of Chelsea’s new ownership.

Graham Potter has been hired as Chelsea manager after choosing to leave fellow Premier League team Brighton.

Brighton was a voice of the Premier League league during the three-month coronavirus pandemic shutdown. (AP Photo/Rui Vieira, File)When Manchester City wanted some tips ahead of the Premier League restart, the defending champions turned to a team trying to avoid relegation. As players were suddenly ordered home and stadiums emptied, Brighton became a voice of the league during the three-month coronavirus pandemic shutdown. For 11 weeks out of the last 12 on a Thursday or Friday gaining regular on-the-record accounts of the trepidations of a Premier League club was just a Zoom call away for the media. The calls also provided a deeper insight into the running of a Premier League club.

Bundesliga will now restart on May 16, 2020 when Borussia Dortmund will play the derby against FC Schalke 04 at home without spectators due to the coronavirus outbreak. The spread of the coronavirus paused every major sport and left a hole in the lives of billions during two months of weekends without any live elite competition to watch until now. When the German Bundesliga lockdown ends on Saturday, a sense of normality will be restored with a very unusual feel. The sporting world and national leaders will be watching with as much trepidation as hope. The Bundesliga is going to be important, Colombia President Ivn Duque said.