World soccer’s great runner-up is finally about to lift a trophy.

Defending champion Spain and France have needed penalty shootouts to reach the Nations League semifinals and join Germany and Portugal.

Soccer’s biggest ever global club tournament comes to the United States next year and the 32-team group stage is drawn Thursday.

Harry Kane scored two goals and set up another as Bayern Munich's winning run in the Bundesliga continued with a 3-0 victory over Union Berlin.

England striker Harry Kane finished Euro 2024 in a six-way tie for the Golden Boot top scorer.

Tournament soccer offers a chance for young players to break through.

Germany went from despair to delight in the space of a minute as a couple of big video review calls set the host nation on its way to a 2-0 win over Denmark and a place in the European Championship quarterfinals.

Host Germany has opened the European Championship with a confidence-boosting 5-1 win over 10-man Scotland in Munich.

Bayern Munich forwards Jamal Musiala and Leroy Sané have recovered from injuries to start against Real Madrid in the teams’ Champions League semifinal first leg.

Niclas Füllkrug and Jamal Musiala scored three minutes apart early in the second half, and Germany rallied to beat the United States 3-1 in an exhibition as Gio Reyna played under American coach Gregg Berhalter for the first time since their family feud erupted.

Perhaps the only positive Germany can draw from its national soccer team’s deepening crisis is that the 2024 European Championship is still a year away.

Jamal Musiala has scored in the 89th minute to fire Bayern Munich to the Bundesliga title with a 2-1 victory at Cologne after Borussia Dortmund could only draw on the final day of the season.

Spain’s Pedri González will highlight the list of teenagers who could make an impact at the World Cup.

Gio Reyna started and scored to help Borussia Dortmund rout Stuttgart 5-0 in the Bundesliga.

All roads now lead to Qatar for Europe’s top soccer nations after they played their final competitive games ahead of the World Cup.

Less could be more for Antoine Griezmann going into the World Cup.

Germany's collapse at the World Cup in Russia the following month meant the final act of Löw's long tenure would be a rebuild. Germany's showing in Russia was its worst World Cup campaign since 1938, and there's been more unwanted history since. Losing to North Macedonia ended a 20-year, 35-game unbeaten run for the national team in World Cup qualifying. AdInjuries have played their part, too, leading Löw to use defensive midfielder Emre Can at left back and right back in successive World Cup qualifiers. Löw has done some useful groundwork for his successor, like persuading 18-year-old Bayern forward Jamal Musiala to choose Germany over England.