Newcastle United captain Bruno Guimaraes and Brazil were held to a 1-1 draw with Tunisia ahead of next summer’s World Cup.

At the FIDE World Cup 2025 in Panaji, Anurag Thakur hailed the AICF for hosting the event after two decades and for driving India’s rapid rise as a global chess powerhouse.

Al Jazeera's breakdown of the qualified teams, playoffs and shock omissions from the FIFA World Cup in North America.

With all but six of the 48 qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup now confirmed, here’s a quick rundown on how each of them has ...

There is a reverse clamour building for Jude Bellingham to be omitted from the England team for the World Cup. Would it be ...

Forty-two national teams out of 48 are already in the World Cup (three of which joined last night from the North-Central ...

Legend Levon Aronian discloses how Goa saved his chess career. Levon Aronian returns to Goa for the FIDE World Cup 2025, the ...

Americans won top-level international events in figure skating, Alpine skiing and speed skating in preparation for the Milan ...

No Germany, no Argentina, no Spain ... only Brazil have never missed football’s greatest stageEternal Giants: Brazil’s 96 ...

Ronald Koeman's side returning to the global showpiece for the 12th time in their history after topping Group G in the UEFA preliminaries.

Ireland’s greatest football moments have usually followed one of these patterns: early goal, heroic rearguard action to close ...

It has been a long nine years since Robbie Brady put the ball in the Italian net, too long for a generation of Irish football ...